Barack Obama leads tributes to civil rights leader John Lewis – live

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… and welcome to another day of coverage of US politics, as the US wakes to the news that John Lewis, hero of the civil rights movement, last of the “Big Six” leaders and a Democratic congressman since 1987, has died. He was 80, and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.

In tribute, Barack Obama said Lewis “loved this country so much that he risked his life and his blood so that it might live up to its promise”.

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