Adam Fleming
Reporter, Daily Politics

A senior European diplomat tells the BBC the vote on Theresa May’s leadership means the run-up to tomorrow’s summit is “crazy”, and describes the situation in London as a “mess”.

The diplomat says it is unlikely there will be any official text to reassure the UK about the Irish backstop before Christmas - because there hasn’t been time to prepare one.

“Nobody knows what’s happening and the prime minister doesn’t know about her life after five or six today,” the diplomat - who has not been named - says.

EU27 ambassadors will discuss the situation during a meeting in Brussels this lunchtime.

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David Davis will not reveal which way he will vote in tonight's challenge to Theresa May.

Speaking at the launch of his new legal paper, he says: "I will cast my vote... in the national interest and what I judge to be the national interest.

"I was going to make that judgement on what the prime minister brought back from Brussels, but now that is not going to happen.

"I will give her the courtesy of hearing what she has to say this evening."

He says he is "sorry" that Mrs May pulled the vote on the deal earlier this week.

"But the PM cannot [ignore] all sides of the house," he adds. "She and the EU will understand now that this proposal is dead and they have to come up with an alternative."

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Brexiteer Tory MP Andrew Bridgen tells the BBC News Channel that the no confidence vote "was inevitable, it was just disappointing that it's taken so long".

He says Theresa May is unable to pass her flagship policy, the withdrawal agreement with the EU, and has failed to persuade EU leaders to amend it.

"She's effectively a prime minister who is drowning, and Angela Merkel has been throwing buckets of water over her."

He says this vote is "the last chance to save Brexit".

"This is a blind alleyway the prime minister is taking us down," he says.

David Davis says a new legal text he is launching today is the answer to getting the UK out of the EU.

Talking at the launch of "A Better Deal" in central London, he says it is the "clearest and cleanest way" of leaving and is "part of an overall strategy in dealing with where we are today".

He says: "We need to reset the negotiating strategy on a basis that is mutually acceptable to both sides

"And we need to do it in a way that can be delivered quickly. We haven't got time to waste."

Mr Davis says it isn't another speech or policy paper, but a legal text based on previous European treaties, so the EU "are not able to turn round and say it is undermining the market or cherry picking".

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Mike in Towcester is a business owner. He says: "The business community will throw their hands up this morning and think, 'what the hell are we really doing?' I’ve listened to 650 MPs who really don’t give a monkey’s about the people they’re supposed to be serving, just their own interests.

"Frankly, I listened to all the debate stuff that 5 live have done over the last week or so but I’ve not heard anybody say what they’re actually doing for the people of this country."

Jen in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, says the Conservative party should be "ashamed of itself".

"They are creating more chaos and uncertainty, and quite frankly a complete side show at a time when we clearly need to be pulling together as a nation.

"I would love to know which member of the Tory party thinks he or she could go back to Brussels and get a better deal than that what Theresa May has enabled. The Brexit deal, in its current form, clearly satisfies no-one and solves nothing.

"This whole idea of a leadership contest is a complete side-show."

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BBC political correspondent Norman Smith says Theresa May's friends insist she is "quietly confident" of victory.

The prime minister has decided to up the ante and frame the no confidence vote as a vote on the future of Brexit, he tells the BBC News Channel.

"Mrs May has deliberately chosen to ramp up the stakes. She has made this not a vote about her, but about Brexit and the future of the country," he says.

"Bring me down, in effect, she is saying, and you put Brexit at risk."

A successor will not have time to renegotiate the deal, she suggests, and may have to revoke or delay Article 50, which began the withdrawal process.

Mrs May hopes the strategy will mean Tory MPs will "balk" at the risk that Brexit may not happen, he says.

But her opponents in the party believe "the deal she has got is not acceptable, will not be approved, will go down and therefore this is a crisis looming."