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Welcome to The Independent’s politics liveblog. Theresa May has spoken with Donald Trump about his decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the need for a "swift" bilateral trade deal after Brexit.
Earlier, she met her full Cabinet and ministers set our their own visions for the UK’s relationship with the EU after Brexit.
The meeting lasted for an hour and 45 minutes and some 25 ministers spoke, according to the Prime Minister's official spokesman.
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Discussions on the so-called “end state” come amid reports that the Prime Minister and her aides are planning a speech – similar to Lancaster House and Florence – where Ms May will set out the Government’s vision for future trade with the bloc.
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, has also given another interview, insisting there will be no special arrangement to allow City firms to trade freely in the EU if Britain leaves the single market – a further blow to Ms May’s hopes of securing a bespoke deal with Brussels.
In comments likely to infuriate hardline Brexiteers, Mr Barnier said that the UK must follow all EU rules during the expected two-year transition period following the official date of Brexit in March 2019 - including laws introduced during that time with no British input into decisions.
Yvette Cooper also accuses the three companies of "grooming people by your own algorithms."
People click on links and are then recommended others that they may never have found. It is a powerful point.
Philip Hammond has responded to reports that he branded Michael Gove a 'liar' in a cabinet row over the NHS spending claim in the Vote Leave campaign.
The Sun's Matt Dathan spots a fairly remarkable admission from Facebook's head of Policy at the Home Affairs Select Committee on online abuse.
This is from my colleague Rob Merrick who listening in to the Foreign Affairs select committee in Westminster:
The EU will refuse to back Britain in United Nations votes over the Falklands Islands after Brexit, a former ambassador has suggested.
Other countries regarded the UK’s loss of influence since the Leave vote “as a shark would regard blood in the water”, Lord Hannay told a Parliamentary inquiry.
It was laid bare when EU countries helped inflict a humiliating defeat on Britain over the legal status of the Chagos Islands, in a UN vote in June, he told MPs.
“We could have the same phenomenon if and when the Falklands comes before the United Nations at some stage or other in the future,” Lord Hannay warned.
The former UK ambassador at the UN and in Brussels said it had been a “huge surprise” to Argentina when the EU imposed sanctions after its 1982 invasion of the Falklands Islands.
“They would never have done that if we had not been a member. I don’t believe for one minute they would have done,” Lord Hannay told the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
“The EU solidarity issue is now, I’m afraid, in play – and I think we will lose it.”
The Chagos Islands vote – sending the long-running dispute to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague - showed “the way the wind is blowing”, the diplomat added.
“I think that reflects an admiration for what France has done in 2017, for its new leadership and its centrality in the European Union,” he told the committee.
“You can’t say any of those things about the UK.”
The warning was echoed by Sir Robert Sawers, another former UN ambassador, who said: “The standing of the UK has come into question, whether it plays the role in the world that it has traditionally done and which our leaders claim they aspire to.”
Sir Robert pointed out that, when the UK recently lost its judge on the ICJ bench -for the first time in its 71-year history – a French candidate was successful.
Common's leader Andrea Leadsom has said there will be two statements in the chamber today:
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