PMQs live updates: Theresa May faces Jeremy Corbyn as sexual harassment scandal deepens
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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to The Independent’s liveblog of Prime Minister’s Questions, in a week where British politics has been dominated by allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.
Theresa May announced plans for cross-party talks over how to cope with the growing scandal, as MPs on all sides piled in to condemn reports of intimidation, bullying and sexual assault in Westminster.
The Prime Minister has faced pressure to ask her de-facto deputy Damian Green to stand aside during an investigation into claims he made inappropriate advances towards a Tory activist - an allegation he denies.
Mr Corbyn agreed to meet with Ms May and joined her in condemning the abuse, as his own party launched an independent probe into claims that activist Bex Bailey was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a Labour event in 2011.
The Labour leader focused most of his questions on tax avoidance, kicking off the clash with concerns over a loophole on importing private jets onto the Isle of Mann.
May dodges a challenge from SNP's David Linden on why under-25s are not included in the national living wage. She says the Tories brought in the living wage.
SNP MP Gavin Newlands raises concern about changes to funding to refuges.
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Labour's Lisa Nandy says she told May three times about whips' offices collecting sexual harassment claims and doing nothing. Demands action is finally taken.
The PM says all whips' offices should make it clear that serious allegations must be taken to the police. She says she wants a good system throughout parliament so people do not have to go through a party process.
Earlier, Oliver Dowden says food standards must not be compromised after Brexit, following comments from International Trade Secretary Liam Fox about chlorine-washed chicken.
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Lisa Nandy has tweeted the Hansard record of her comments from 2014.
A cross-party group has been set up to examine sexual harassment allegations, according to colleague Lizzie Dearden.
Labour MP Alison McGovern raises the report into the suffering of the Hillsborough families, published today, and warns similar things are happening to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. Asks that they receive proper legal funding.
Ms May says their experience must not be repeated and adds that we will 'not forget the Hillsborough families'.
Tory Mark Francois urges the PM to stay in the chamber to listen to the armed forces bill by Richard Benyon, which aims to put a statute of limitations on prosecutions against the armed forces. The government should not be prosecuting soldiers to please Sinn Fein, he warns.
PMQs has come to an end with questions from Labour's Tracy Brabin on shared parental leave, which May said she helped to introduce when she was equalities minister.
Scottish Tory Kirstene Hair also asks about what a post-Brexit immigration system will mean for agriculture. PM says new immigration rules will be brought forward.
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