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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Your support makes all the difference.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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Tory MP Richard Drax congratulates Penny Mordaunt for her appointment as defence secretary. He says it is a full time job to get to know the military.
Is that a sly dig at the fact she has retained her role as minister for equalities?
May is having none of that. She says Mordaunt is a former naval reservist and defence minister so she is in a good position. She also has plenty of work to do on equalities within the armed forces.
Labour's Mary Creagh tries to do another Liverpool question, as Jurgen Klopp has backed a People's Vote. Why won't May back it and what is her plan?
May says the Commons has never supported a second referendum.
Julian Lewis, a Tory former defence committee chairman, says allowing Huawei to play a role in the UK's 5G network would be a disaster and praises ministers, present and former - eg Gavin Williamson - for standing up against it.
May says she takes security very seriously and her record speaks for itself.
Scottish Tory Colin Clark says he enjoyed welcoming the PM to Scotland and claims it is time for Ruth Davidson to take over leadership.
He doesn't seem to acknowledge that Nicola Sturgeon is in charge because the SNP have more MSPs...
May says the SNP's record is poor in Scotland.
Watch our post-match analysis on PMQs - in a rather rainy Westminster.
Here's a clip from that exchange with Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns, where she called on May to stand down.
The first images of a planned £1.5bn Westminster decant have been revealed.
Parliament authorities plan to temporarily shift the House of Commons debating chamber and MPs' offices into existing buildings on the northern part of the estate.
This would allow the multibillion-pound renovation of the historic Palace of Westminster in the south, backed by new legislation being introduced on Wednesday.
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