Westminster today - as it happened: MPs vote down plan for Leveson part two inquiry
MPs have rejected a new statuary inquiry – dubbed Leveson part two – into relations between the media and the police by 304 votes to 295.
The amendment was put forward by the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, who during the Commons debate accused ministers of “fearing” the press and said their actions had been “contemptible”.
Labour also abandoned an attempt to force media organisations to pay all legal costs in libel cases whether they win or lose, unless they sign up to a state-backed regulator.
It came after Theresa May was challenged at Prime Minister's Questions today over the stark split in the Cabinet over post-Brexit customs arrangements with the EU, after Boris Johnson branded her proposals "crazy".
Jeremy Corbyn taunted the prime minister - asking her whether she agreed with her Foreign Secretary, or with her business secretary, Greg Clark, who supports the "customs partnership" idea.
Ms May was unable to answer - or say whether her customs plans would be ready for the end of the transition period she hopes to agree, ending in 2020.
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Corbyn adds the negotiations are in a shambles - Emily Thornberry can be heard in the background: "Yep! That's right."
May is now highlighting the progress made by the government in the talks, including the withdrawal agreement and the transition period.
She also highlights the local elections of last week, saying the public don't trust Labour and the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. She says the public rejected the "back to the future" economics of the party.
Ian Blackford, the SNP leader in Westminster, says Donald Trump has undermined progress in regards to a relationship being normalised with Iran.
May says she has been very clear with the President of the US that the Iranian nuclear deal should stay - a stance agreed with by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.
Blackford also highlights the Foreign Secretary's trip to Washington at the weekend.
He asks does she have the "backbone" to send Johnson to the backbenches. She sidesteps the question.
That was certainly an interesting Prime Minister's Question - and what appeared to be one of Jeremy Corbyn's best perfomances at the despatch box for quite some time.
Corbyn stuck to highlighting the government's divisions over Brexit during his six questions and referred to the Foreign Secretary's remarks at the weekend that May's proposals for a "customs arrangements" after withdrawal from the EU were "crazy". May appeared on the backfoot throughout and struggled to answer any of the questions Corbyn put to her.
During PMQs, the Labour leader asked: "Does the Prime Minister agree with her Foreign Secretary that the plan for a customs partnership, set out in her Lancaster House speech, is in fact crazy?"
The Prime Minister replied: "We are leaving the European Union, we are leaving the customs union, but of course for our future trade arrangements, trade relationship with the European Union, we will need to agree customs arrangements which will ensure that we leave the customs union, that we can have an independent free trade policy, that we can maintain no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, and that we have as frictionless trade with the European Union as possible.
"I'll tell (Mr Corbyn) what's crazy - what's crazy is a leader of the opposition who for years opposed TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and now has a policy that would mean Labour signing up to TTIP with no say in it whatsoever."
He also repeatedly criticised the government's approach to Brexit and said in his final remarks: "How can they negotiate in the future interests of people's jobs and living standards when Cabinet members are more interested in putting their own futures first?
"Fundamentally, how can this Government negotiate a good deal for Britain to defend people's jobs and living standards when they're unable to reach an agreement within themselves?"
May replied: "This is a Government that is putting jobs first at every stage of what we are doing.
"Last week what we saw up and down this country, whether in Barnet or Dudley or Peteborough was the British people voting to reject the back to the future economic policy of the Labour Party and the broken promises of Labour.
"They don't trust Labour and they don't trust their leader."
Replying to Thornberry, Johnson says he agrees with Thornberry that there is no need for "reckless" attacks on America today - and intimates she and her Labour colleagues should refrain from doing so when Trump visits the UK later this year.
May earlier told MPs: "It is absolutely right that the Government in addressing the issue of the Iran nuclear deal with the United States government worked across all levels and made representations at a variety of levels and in a variety of ways.
"We continue to believe that the Iran nuclear deal was an important step forward in helping to keep the world safe.
"There are other issues that need to be worked on. The Foreign Secretary and I will be continuing to work on those with our European and other allies."
Johnson says he urges the US from taking any action that would hinder other states from upholding the nuclear deal.
"We remain adamant that a nuclear armed Iran would never be acceptable to the Unite Kingdom," he says.
The responsibility fall on them (the US) to build a new negotiating settlement. "Britain stands ready to support that task," he adds.
The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, replies, by condemning the "diplomatic sabotage" of Donald Trump by pulling out of the nuclear deal.
By seeking to scupper the deal, Trump has risked triggering a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, she adds. He is taking all these actions without any rational thinking, according to Thornberry.
Replying to Thornberry, Johnson says he agrees with Thornberry that there is no need for pointless and reckless attacks on Donald Trump today.
He says: "I'm grateful actually for the right honourable lady's point that there's no merit in any reckless and counterproductive attacks on the United States today and I'm sure she will continue that spirit when the President makes his visit in July. I trust she will communicate that to the rest of the Labour benches and indeed to the Labour Party in London."
Thornberry grins back at the Foreign Secretary.
Boris Johnson said Britain has "no intention of walking away" from the Iran nuclear deal.
In a Commons statement, the Foreign Secretary said a watchdog had reported nine times that Iran had complied with the terms of the agreement.
As long as it continues to comply, the UK will "remain a party" to the accord, he told MPs.
A number of Tory MPs have expressed cynicism over the Iranian nuclear deal, with the most prominent being Michael Fallon - the former defence secretary. He describes the deal as "flimsy".
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