Brexit news - live: MPs to vote on withdrawal bill in June as Cabinet sets summer deadline for exit
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Your support makes all the difference.Theresa May's cabinet has set a summer deadline for the UK finally to leave the EU, prompting speculation the prime minister could be ready to name her departure date.
The decision suggests Ms May is ready to confirm she will quit within two months when she meets Tory backbench leaders on Thursday, after she promised to quit when the first phase of Brexit is complete. She will bring forward her withdrawal agreement bill in early June to ensure Brexit happens this summer, Downing Street said.
It came after the EU told Britain that it was on a "Brexit break" but officials will meet Olly Robbins, Ms May's top Brexit negotiator tomorrow.
Elsewhere, a group of senior Tories urged Ms May to to stand firm against Labour's demands for a customs union in the cross-party talks or risk losing the support of her party's "loyal middle".
But the warning drew fury from shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who voiced fears that any agreement with Ms May would be "overturned within weeks".
Late on Tuesday Ms May met Jeremy Corbyn and both agreed that cross-party talks should continue.
However, making clear their precarious nature, the Labour leader told the prime minister he had "doubts over the credibility of government commitments, following statements by Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers seeking to replace the prime minister".
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Theresa May will bring her Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) in the first week of June, Downing Street has said.
The prime minister was locked in talks with Jeremy Corbyn this evening, which No10 described as "useful and constructive".
A Downing Street spokesman said the pair shared a "determination to bring the talks to a conclusion and deliver on the referendum result to leave the EU".
The WAB must be brought forward in the week of 3 June "if the UK is to leave the EU before the summer Parliamentary recess", the spokesman added.
Cross-party talks will continue on Wednesday, he said.
The Brexit bill will make its way into the Commons at about the same time Donald Trump is due to visit the UK, it seems.
Buckingham Palace said it had invited the US president for a full state visit in early June for about three days.
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