Brexit news: Tory MP tells Theresa May 'it's time to step aside' during PMQs ordeal as hopes of breakthrough evaporate
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Theresa May is facing renewed pressure from Tory backbenchers to set out a roadmap for her departure as hopes of progress in the cross-party Brexit talks began to fade.
Negotiations with Labour are now in their sixth week but lengthy meetings have resulted in little progress, with Labour sources saying a customs compromise was "a million miles way" from their demands.
Tory backbenchers were due to meet to discuss overhauling party rules to oust Ms May as leader.
Sir Graham Brady, influential chairman of the 1922 committee of backbenchers, told the prime minister to set out a faster timetable for her departure during a private meeting on Tuesday.
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Andrea Leadsom has said she is "seriously considering" standing to succeed Theresa May and claimed a Eurosceptic prime minister would have delivered Brexit by now.
The leader of the Commons confirmed that she was weighing up another leadership bid, having reached the final round of the 2016 contest before withdrawing from the race.
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EU officials involved with Brexit negotiations privately considered aspects of Theresa May’s approach “insane” and “pathetic”, a new behind-the-scenes documentary shows.
BBC camera crews were given access to Brexit officials in the European Parliament to make Brexit: Behind Closed Doors, a two-part series focusing on the team around Guy Verhofstadt.
It shows officials having completely lost confidence in the UK’s ability to negotiate, with frustration regularly boiling over at behaviour emanating from the government in London.
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Interesting - apparently ex-defence secretary Gavin Williamson has saved himself a seat for PMQs. Could he be planning to address the PM after she sacked him for leaking information from the National Security Council last week.
And we're off.
Theresa May pays tribute to a British soldier who died during anti poaching operations in Malawi. She also welcomes the birth of baby Sussex, and send best wishes to Muslims celebrating Ramadan.
Labour's Janet Daby has the first question about zero hours contracts. She asks May to end the 'burning injustices' and ban zero hours contracts.
May says the Tories recognised the problem with them - and the Tories banned exclusive use.
Tory MP Maria Caulfield presses the PM on schools funding.
May says she recognises schools have been asked to do more but the national funding formula will make it fairer. She says local authorities have a responsibility to deliver.
Jeremy Corbyn joins her is her tributes - and tells May she could learn from Liverpool FC's Jurgen Klopp on how to get a good result in Europes.
He starts by asking on the NHS. Why are staff being so severely let down by the government, he asks.
May continues with the football joke - saying it shows that when facing defeat, you can still secure success. Huge groans from MPs.
She says for too long governments have failed to deliver on workforce planning - but this government has done so. It will deliver for NHS staff, she says.
Corbyn says NHS investment has barely reached 1.5% under this government. He points to staff shortages and rising vacancies.
What is May doing to remedy this dangerous situation, he asks.
May hits back, saying numbers of nurses and doctors are at the highest level in 70 years. She accuses Corbyn of talking down the NHS and says Labour promised less money for the NHS than the Tories in its manifesto.
It would also crash the economy, she says.
Corbyn says Labour came up with the idea of free healthcare and no one in the party would talk down the NHS.
He says it is Ovarian Cancer Day - he is wearing a white rose to mark it. He urges the PM to apologise for patients who have been forced to wait for treatment after diagnosis.
May says early diagnosis for cancer is key. She also does her classic dodge - saying NHS under Labour in Wales is performing badly.
Corbyn moves to GPs, saying the shortage of family doctors means people are being are turned away.
May says there are more GPs than before. She says funding for primary care has increased as a percentage of the NHS budget.
Tory management of the economy has meant there is money to go into the NHS, she says.
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