Brexit news - live: Andrea Leadsom resigns over Theresa May's withdrawal bill as PM clings to power
Premier to meet Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, on Friday
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Your support makes all the difference.Senior Tories told Theresa May "it is time to go" as 1922 Committee leader Sir Graham Brady revealed he would meet the PM on Friday.
The prime minister set out her proposals in the Commons but Tory and Labour MPs expressed fury at her plans for a second referendum.
Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom resigned from the cabinet with a "heavy heart", saying she no longer believed the government's approach to Brextit would "deliver on the referendum result".
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Anti-Brexit campaigner Femi Oluwole has posted this footage of himself getting doused in water by Brexit Party supporters.
Oluwole was at a rally in London to try to persuade Nigel Farage's supporters to support a second referendum.
It's shaping up to be a tricky afternoon for Theresa May, as she faces a fresh bid to eject her from Downing Street from key figures on the 1922 Committee of backbenchers, which meets later on Wednesday.
Nigel Evans, who sits on the 1922's executive, said he would be seeking a rule change to hold another confidence vote and the PM should "make way for fresh leadership without handcuffing her successor to a poisoned baton".
Following the failed bid to oust her in 2018, under the existing rules Mrs May should be safe from another confidence motion until December.
But speculation is rife through Westminster that the PM's time may be up.
Speculation mounting now that Scottish secretary David Mundell could go in to see the PM.
A source said he wanted to make sure the government did not present the possibility of a second Brexit referendum in a way that could be "exploited" by the SNP in an attempt to justify a second independence referendum.
A Tory MP texts to say May "needs to go" in the wake of her speech yesterday.
Mood amongst the Scottish Conservatives is "not good" as they are worried that the SNP will make hay with May's promise to allow MPs to vote on a second referendum.
They say: "The reality is 2nd ref amendments would have been put down anyway, so why proactively offer that and say you will facilitate a referendum.
"And why was she allowed to give that speech two days before the Euros? How are her advisers so f****** s*** and tone deaf politically?
"People who didn't watch it closely are confused and think she has offered a second referendum.
"I suspect she has now definitely cost us our seat in Scotland and she needs to go."
Women are being forced into "survival sex" work for basic needs like “laundry and food” due to a lack of access to universal credit, MPs have been told.
Some were charging as little as £2, the Work and Pensions Committee heard.
“One woman we work with said: ‘I hate sleeping on the street, I tried to find a punter who would let me sleep for free sex. I hate it, but I hate sleeping on the street more'," Laura Seebohm, of the Changing Lives charity, said.
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Foreign affairs committee chairman Tom Tughendhat has broken cover and called for Theresa May to resign.
In a piece for the FT, the Tory rising star said: "Leadership matters; it has been absent for too long.
"This can only change with a new prime minister who can inject fresh energy into a moribund process and rebuild the trust necessary to deliver a deal.
"Every day that nothing changes, with the same discredited leadership, is another wasted day that moves the country closer to falling out of the bloc without adequate preparations."
Speculation is hotting up about which ministers are heading in to see the PM.
Amid reports that ministers were concerned that Ms May’s offer on a second referendum went beyond what was agreed in cabinet, the PM’s official spokesman said that her speech on Tuesday “reflects the position that was agreed yesterday”.
“There was a discussion at cabinet. The speech represented the agreed way forward,” he said.
Asked whether the PM was confident of getting her bill through parliament, the spokesman said: “We have tried three times to take the UK out of the EU. We have been unsuccessful.
"We continue to have a very long way to go to be able to find a way for parliament to support the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.”
Home secretary Sajid Javid has requested a meeting with the Prime Minister, the Indy has confirmed.
It is understood that Mr Javid will ask for the clauses relating to the second referendum to be removed from the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
Ms May’s official spokesman declined to discuss whether any ministers had seen the PM, saying only: “I’m not aware of any specific meetings having taken place.”
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