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The row over reported comments from Tory donor Frank Hester about Diane Abbott dominates PMQs, as Rishi Sunak faces calls to return the money he has given to the party.
Sir Ed Davey has hinted he would be prepared to do a deal with Labour to keep the Tories out of government - but would not say that he wanted to rejoin the EU. Rishi Sunak has been warned that scrapping the northern leg of HS2 would be "abandoning" the North.
Shortest-serving PM has made lucrative speeches and backbench interventions but shown little remorse
Sir Keir Starmer focused his attack on Rishi Sunak on the school crisis at PMQs, likening the Tories to "cowboy builders". The list of schools affected by the concrete crisis so far has now been published.
MPs returned to Westminster after their summer break, but the same can't be said for thousands of children expected in classrooms for the autumn term - due to the crumbling concrete crisis.