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Brexit: May hit by two cabinet resignations as Raab and McVey quit over plan - Politics live | Brexit: May hit by two cabinet resignations as Raab and McVey quit over plan - Politics live |
(35 minutes later) | |
Labour’s Stella Creasy says only seven MPs within the last two hours have expressed any support for the PM’s plan. What makes May think she will be able get it through the Commons? | |
May says the deal will be good for the UK. | |
This is from the Sunday Times’ Tim Shipman. | |
Suggestion from Commons sources that that May will stay in the House after the statement and see Graham Brady at 1.30pm. No 10 types not saying | |
Sir Graham Brady is chair of the backbench 1922 committee. He is the one who gets the letters demanding a vote of no confidence, and the person who is responsible for announcing if 48 letters have been received - the threshold needed for a vote to go ahead. | |
Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem MP, asks if the immigration white paper will be published before the meaningful vote. | |
May says it will be published “in due course”. | |
The Scotland secretary, David Mundell, had a brutal response to Dominic Raab’s resignation, saying he though the Brexit secretary had mainly quit to further his own ambitions. | |
“I’m not taking lessons on standing up for our United Kingdom from carpetbaggers,” Mundell told ITV. | |
Only a couple of years ago Dominic Raab was proposing to introduce a bill of rights into Scotland which would have overridden the Scottish legal system and devolution. | |
So I’m not impressed by his latter-day commitment to the union. I’m sure this is more about manoeuvring and leadership. | |
EXCLUSIVE: Watch @DavidMundellDCT hit out at @DominicRaab's resignation, calling him a "carpet bagger" and says he himself won't resign. pic.twitter.com/IMEXIYJPHZ | |
Andrew Bridgen, the Tory Brexiter, suggests the deal is too pro-EU. He says May voted for remain. Now it is “in the national interest for her to leave”, he says. | |
Brexiter Tory MP Andrew Bridgen says May should quit. | |
May says some of the aspects of Bridgen’s question did not relate to the deal. | |
John Bercow, the Speaker, says he has now taken 50 questions from backbenchers. He appeals for short questions. | |
Nick Herbert, a Conservative, says the key point is the future relationship with the EU. He says most MPs voted to trigger article 50. Tory MPs should be careful what they wish for, he says. | |
May thanks Herbert for what he said. The future relationship is what will determine the country’s relationship with the EU for years ahead, she says. | |
Labour’s Mary Creagh says May is offering people a false choice, and she calls for a people’s vote. May says she has already addressed this. | |
Labour’s David Lammy says the deal will not get through parliament. When politics is broken, one can only put the decision back to the people, he says. | |
May says, when she talks to people, they tell her they just want the politicians to get on with it. | |
These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. | |
I've just been speaking to Dominic Raab - he told the Chief Whip at end of Cabinet he was quitting, tells me the deal won't get through Parliament, and the EU have been 'blackmailing' us - interview on @bbcnews soon | |
Raab says better for UK to walk away and accept short term pain than sign up to terms that could damage the country for years and years to come - says he still supports the PM and irresponsible to talk leadershp, but doesn't rule it out if and when time comes |