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Afternoon summary

• Keir Starmer has used prime minister’s questions to make a pointed and personal attack on Rishi Sunak over tax benefits for private schools, saying the policy of continued VAT exemption for school fees amounted to “trickle-down education”.

• More than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in England and Wales in an escalation of the row over NHS pay with ministers, raising the threat of widespread industrial action across the health service before Christmas.

• The UK is not in a significantly better place to deal with a new pandemic, the former vaccine taskforce chief has said, as a leading public health expert suggested Covid infections may be on the rise again.

• The UK has announced a fresh round of sanctions against 22 Russians, including those the Foreign Office says were involved in enlisting criminals to fight in Ukraine.

Rishi Sunak at PMQs. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA

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Brexit is 'for the long term', and 'change is difficult', says Badenoch when asked about Brexit's impact on economy

Giving evidence to the Commons international trade committee, Kemi Badenoch insisted Brexit should be seen as a long-term project when asked about its economic impact.

In response to a question about its impact on GDP, she said:

This is something that we have done for the long term. We haven’t said that there are not going to be any changes in the interim. What we are doing is creating an independent trade policy that is going to work for the future.

Will there be difficulties because of changes? Yes. All change is difficult.

She said that alongside Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, it was not “helpful” to try to disentangle Brexit from other factors impacting on the British economy.

Badenoch also refused to say what exact impact post-Brexit trade deals might have on GDP. When this was put to her, she replied:

Asking for a number for something that is not a number question is not going to work. If that was the case, you wouldn’t need to have me here. You could just have a computer program and press a button and then get the number.

There is a whole world out there. Looking inward and saying there is nothing else happening except the EU, I’m afraid, is just not realistic.

Updated at 5.36pm GMT