Brexit: Davis statement and MPs' debate

Labour MP Kate Hoey has called on Keith Vaz to resign from the home affairs select committee, which he currently chairs.

Ms Hoey told Sky News it would be "in the interests of both Keith himself but obviously for Parliament as a whole for him to stand down from those two positions".

She said there should then be an election of a new committee chair involving all MPs. 

It comes amid reports that members of the committee will call a vote of no confidence in Mr Vaz unless he resigns at a meeting tomorrow. This follows a Sunday newspaper story linking him with male escorts. 

The government has agreed to a cross-party call for big multinational companies to publish details of where they do their business and the tax they pay.

The move for greater transparency was proposed by Labour's Caroline Flint, a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee.

Financial Secretary Jane Ellison said the government would accept her proposal, in the form of an amendment to the Finance Bill currently before Parliament. 

Quote Message: "The government has been a firm supporter of greater tax transparency and greater public disclosure of the tax affairs of large businesses and for these reasons the government fully supports the intentions of the amendment and is supporting its inclusion in the bill."

"The government has been a firm supporter of greater tax transparency and greater public disclosure of the tax affairs of large businesses and for these reasons the government fully supports the intentions of the amendment and is supporting its inclusion in the bill."

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David Davis has described Brexit as "one of the most complicated negotiations in history, if not the most complicated".      

Speaking after he delivered his first Commons statement since being appointed Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, the Conservative MP said it would take time to get the "right priorities, the right aims and the right outcomes".

Quote Message: We're studying 50 different sectors of industry to see what the effects of Brexit might be on them, where the opportunities might be. It's going to take some time. We make no bones about it. That's why the prime minister said we're not going to trigger Article 50 until next year, not before the end of this year, so we can do the work. And as the work comes in, we will publish it.

We're studying 50 different sectors of industry to see what the effects of Brexit might be on them, where the opportunities might be. It's going to take some time. We make no bones about it. That's why the prime minister said we're not going to trigger Article 50 until next year, not before the end of this year, so we can do the work. And as the work comes in, we will publish it.

The UK's ultimate objective, he added, should be to negotiate a free trade agreement with the EU which did not require it to unconditionally accept EU migrants and pay into the EU's budget. 

Quote Message: About forty countries have free trade agreements with Europe without any deals on migration, without any deals on money. If we do a free trade agreement with Europe it will be beneficial for both sides, as it were, on its own two feet, without having to pay anything to do it.

About forty countries have free trade agreements with Europe without any deals on migration, without any deals on money. If we do a free trade agreement with Europe it will be beneficial for both sides, as it were, on its own two feet, without having to pay anything to do it.

The UK government will have to hire extra civil servants to cope with the "phenomenally large task" of negotiating Brexit, a former top Foreign Office diplomat has said.

Sir Simon Fraser was a trade negotiator in Europe and permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office until July 2015.

"I don't think we can avoid an increase in bureaucracy," he said, stressing a need for expertise in trade talks.

"Serious thinking has barely begun on the substantive issues," he said.

Mr Fraser told reporters in London that he expected Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Philip Hammond and the new Brexit Minister, David Davis, to be the key players in negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Read more

It's been a busy start to the week, with Parliament back in action after the summer recess. Here's a round up of the day's main stories:

• Theresa May has rejected a points-based system for controlling EU migration, one of the key recommendations of Leave campaigners during the referendum
• The government will seek a "national consensus" and "take the time to get it right" as it leaves the EU, new Brexit Secretary David Davis has told MPs
• Ignoring the outcome of the EU referendum would lead to public outrage, MPs have been told as they debated the future of Brexit
• Nicola Sturgeon has offered to form a "coalition" with like-minded UK government ministers who want Britain to stay in the European single market
• The UK has appointed an ambassador to Iran for the first time since 2011, as part of its aims for "more productive co-operation"
• Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown has been criticised for comparing Conservative Brexit supporters with Nazi paramilitaries

• Jeremy Corbyn is set to call for Labour Party members to be allowed to elect MPs to the shadow cabinet
• The Commons Standards watchdog is being urged to investigate Labour MP Keith Vaz over claims in the Sunday Mirror he paid for the services of male escorts.

Remain-voting farmer Andrew Brown says he fears for the future of the UK in a post-Brexit society. Andrew says he will struggle in his industry once Britain leaves the EU and is worried for his kids. He added that throughout history old people have sent young people "into oblivion". 

Leave-voter Rickie says he has suffered online abuse for his decision post the Brexit referendum.

He told the BBC's Christian Fraser an increase of abuse since the June 23 vote to leave the EU had "shown all the divisions in society".

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MPs are debating the outcome of EU referendum in the House of Commons and a petition calling for a re-run of the vote which has attracted four million signatures.

It has been quite a lively affair with SNP MP Ian Blackford being asked to resume his seat by debate chair James Gray, who accused him of straying completely off the subject of the petition. Mr Blackford protested at claims he was "totally out of order".

Conservative MP John Penrose said all "red-blooded democrats" should accept the outcome of the vote, or else it would lead to public outrage, while his colleague William Wragg said those backing the petition were still grieving about the outcome and were taking the public for fools.

But Labour's David Lammy and the Greens' Caroline Lucas said there was a case for letting the public have their say on the eventual Brexit deal negotiated by the government, Mr Lammy saying the country was divided like never before and a further referendum may be the only way out of the "constitutional crisis" facing the country now. 

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The SNP’s Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh asks if there has been an assessment of the impact of Brexit on the Scottish economy.

Scottish Secretary David Mundell has previously said access to single market reduces costs to Scottish business to the tune of around £11.6bn, she says.

David Davis says he has not done that assessment yet, but that his department will do that.

He adds he wants to ensure this outcome serves all parts of the UK.

Remain campaigner and former Tory minister Anna Soubry urges "clarity" on the government's position on EU single market membership, saying continued membership could allay Japan's fears over Brexit.

Brexit secretary David Davis says the government is looking "at every option" but he says that if a requirement of single market membership is to give up control of UK borders "that makes it very improbable".

Quoting PM Theresa May, he says the UK is looking for a "unique solution" that matches the fact that the UK is one of largest trading countries in the world and a large market for many parts of the EU.

Leading Leave campaigner Michael Gove, who was sacked by Theresa May in the PM's reshuffle, says there's been "a record increase" in the service and manufacturing industries, as well as growth in car sales since the Brexit vote. A number of countries have also signalled interest in striking up trade deals with the UK, he adds.

He says it shows that all those who voted to leave the EU "know a darn sight more about economics than the soi-disant experts" - who warned about the economic impact of a vote to leave - who he says now have "oeuf on their face".

David Davis agrees that "much of the gloom and doom and fear mongering that went on before the referendum has been proven to be wrong", but he cautions that he "would not be quite so unalloyed optimistic" as the former justice secretary.