Boris Johnson drops target for getting annual net migration below 100,000 – live news

Corbyn says he is ‘worried that Johnson overestimates himself’ as Johnson gives first statement to MPs

This is what Boris Johnson said to the Labour MP Catherine West when she asked for an assurance that every single entry-level cleaner in Whitehall would be paid the London living wage. Johnson replied:

I have to say – the answer is yes. I was very proud that I when I was running London that we massively expanded with the living wage. And we made sure that it was paid not just by by GLA bodies, but by their contractors as well. And that is what we should be doing.

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Here is my colleague Daniel Boffey on Michel Barnier’s note to the EU27. (See 3.15pm.)

Michel Barnier’s note to dippos after Boris speech a sign of the growing belief that UK heading to a general election. He notes “many strong reactions to the speech.. in this context we must follow carefully the further political and economic reactions and developments in the UK”

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