Brexit deal: Theresa May defends EU agreement in press conference after flurry of cabinet resignations
MPs react to May's statement and ministerial resignations
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Your support makes all the difference.Theresa May has been forced to defend her Brexit plan to MPs just moments after cabinet ministers Dominic Raab and Esther McVey dealt her authority a major blow by resigning from the government.
The prime minister secured the uneasy support of her cabinet for the draft deal with Brussels after a stormy five-hour meeting on Wednesday night.
Ms May also faces the growing prospect of a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, as MPs, including Jacob Rees-Mogg, began publishing their letters sent to the party's 1922 committee - calling for the PM to step down.
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Former Brexit secretary and prominent Brexiteer David Davis has predicted Theresa May's agreement will be rejected when it reaches parliament.
"The Labour Party appear to be very aggressively against this deal," he told Sky.
"So are a large number of the Conservatives, including me.
"It'll come to the House of Commons, it'll get rejected, and the government will have to go back to the European Union with another alternative."
Mr Davis praised his successor as Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab for doing "absolutely the right thing" in resigning from the role earlier today.
Mr Davis was asked twice whether he would be tempted to put himself forward to be Tory leader if Ms May steps down or is forced out, but he refused to answer.
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