Adam Fleming
Brussels reporter

The other European countries do not want to get involved in the British domestic political situation for fear of making it even worse.

The other thing they don't want to do is reopen the negotiations on the Brexit withdrawal treaty - because as far as they're concerned, that is closed, it's done.

And that's been said in the last few days by the leaders of Ireland, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands to name a few - and it was also repeated by the EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier in a private meeting of EU ambassadors this morning.

Here, it is full steam ahead to that special Brexit summit which will take place a week on Sunday.

Chris Morris from Reality Check has ploughed through the 585-page deal so you don't have to.

He's pulled out the key points here.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

It feels a bit more peaceful today. But there have been more twists and turns in this than on the Big Dipper.

Theresa May could face a vote of no confidence in her leadership.

But we probably won't know that until Monday,[depending on] how many of those letters have gone in.

Have the Brexiteers reached their magic number of 48 which would trigger a vote that could bring the prime minister down at least in theory?

But if there were such a vote, could she get through it? Well, maybe so.

But even if she does, the bigger question - the one which affects all of our lives - is can she, will she, get a Brexit deal through the Houses of Parliament?

And from where we are now, that seems a Herculean task. Now it is impossible to know that, impossible to imagine what might be in the minds of MPs in Parliament if we get to that point.

But that is the most serious question being asked right now. Even if she gets through the next few days - and it's thought generally she has a decent chance of that - will she be able to drive her Brexit deal through Parliament if she gets that far?

And if she can't, at that point frankly almost anything could happen.

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Pictured at her new office, new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said she had seen Universal Credit - which has proved controversial almost from the beginning - "do some fantastic things".

"In my constituency in Hastings and Rye it really has transformed lives," she said.

"But I also recognise that there have been some issues with it, some problems with it.

"I see it very much as my job, my role, to make sure that I try to iron out those difficulties so it becomes a force wholly for good."

The CBI, which has been at the forefront of business demands for a speedy resolution to the Brexit negotiations and a deal that ensures future access to the UK’s main export market, the EU, say it supports May's draft withdrawal agreement.

BBC correspondents explain the 585-page withdrawal document faster than you could print them.

Poland's ambassador to the UK, Arkady Rzegocki, has said Poles living in Britain are considering moving back to their homeland amid the current uncertainty.

"I have to say more and more people are thinking about coming back to Poland, some of them are thinking about different countries, different European countries," he said.

Mr Rzegocki said he hoped a strong community of Poles would remain after Brexit next year.

And he hopes migrants will still be welcome in Britain after it quits the EU.

Tory MP Jack Lopresti, whose wife fellow Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister, says he backs Theresa May's plan.

He says: "I fully support the prime minster and the draft withdrawal agreement.

"The prime minister is committed to delivering Brexit and I hugely admire her sense of duty and determination to achieve a deal that is in our country's best interests.

"I have every confidence in Mrs May and believe we must continue to support the prime minister and put any divisions behind us to secure this deal in the interests of the United Kingdom."

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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who earlier this week said he is pleased with draft Brexit deal, says he "doesn't see much room for the renegotiation of a Brexit deal".

Mr Varadkar says "if changes are made the whole thing could unravel" and that while there is a provision for Article 50 to be extended "it would have to be the UK government that requests it".

He says he believes that "as reality sinks in, more UK MPs may support the deal" as "a no deal Brexit would be extremely chaotic".

"In a hard Brexit it would be very difficult to avoid a hard border," he adds, and says that this is why a deal is the best option.

Amber Rudd says she is "delighted to be given the honour and responsibility" of being work and pensions secretary.

She said it's a "a huge office, a really important job".

Asked what she would say to colleagues planning to submit letters of no-confidence in Mrs May, Ms Rudd said: "I would ask them to think again.

"This is not a time for changing our leader, it is a time for pulling together to make sure we remember who are we are here to serve, which is the whole of the country.

"I worry sometimes my colleagues are too worried about the Westminster bubble."

After suffering its largest one-day decline since June 2016, the pound steadied on Friday.

Sterling finished 0.5% higher to more than $1.283 after tumbling on Thursday.

But it was down 0.2% against the euro to €1.125.

The FTSE ended 24.13 points lower at 7,013.88.

Connor Campbell, a financial analyst at UK-based spead betting company Spreadex, said: "The pound is a bit like Theresa May at the moment - seriously bruised by the fallout of the Brexit draft deal, shaken by a series of high-profile resignations but, for the time being (and however misguidedly), emboldened by a sense of resilience."

And the new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has also tweeted:

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

At the lobby briefing the PM’s spokesman was asked specifically about Steve Barclay’s role.

It was described as "continuing our preparations for deal and for no deal", which was taken as domestic preparations rather than international negotiations.

On the negotiations, the spokesman emphasised there was work to do over the next 10 days on the political declaration rather than the withdrawal agreement, saying "the political declaration will be built on".

However, he said "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed", so if the future framework isn’t satisfactory the withdrawal agreement would not be signed off.

"‘It is subject to a future framework being delivered," he said.