Summary

  • Theresa May has been back in Brussels to seek changes to the Brexit withdrawal deal

  • She met the Irish PM and the president of the European Council, before an EU summit

  • EU leaders insist the withdrawal deal can't be renegotiated - but say some points can be clarified

  • The PM has confirmed she will not fight the next general election

  • Mrs May remains Tory leader after surviving a confidence vote on Wednesday night

  • She won 200 votes, but 117 MPs voted against her

Live Reporting

Marie Jackson and Laurence Peter

  1. 5 live listener Freya: 'Theresa May is the scapegoat here'

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  2. May to meet DUP at 13:30 GMT, reports say

    Theresa May is set to meet the leader of the DUP at 13:30, according to a tweet from a reporter at the Financial Times.

    The Conservative government is propped up by the votes of the Northern Irish party, but they are against Mrs May's Brexit deal.

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  3. May has full backing of Tory leader in Lords

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  4. Defence secretary joins May backers

    Just one cabinet member left not to have tweeted support for the PM...

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  5. Rowley: 'You either get out of the hole or you keep digging'

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    Lee RowleyUK Parliament

    Conservative MP for North East Derbyshire, Lee Rowley, tells BBC Radio 5 live that he has a "huge amount of time and respect for the prime minister," but he says something needs to change:

    "The reality is that stamina isn’t a strategy and it’s not working, and when you’re in a hole you have two choices - you either get out of the hole or you keep digging.

    "I’m choosing to get out of the hole and I hope my colleagues are going to do the same today."

    He adds: "The one way I know we’re not going to sort Brexit is by keeping flogging a dead horse and a deal that clearly isn’t going to get through Parliament."

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  6. Watch: Health secretary talks 'national interest'

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  7. No confidence vote is a 'tantrum' - Hoare

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    Simon Hoare

    Simon Hoare, Conservative MP and parliamentary private secretary to the home secretary, tells the BBC News Channel the triggering of a no confidence ballot is like a "toddler's tantrum".

    "You can change the leader every day between now and New Year's Eve. It wouldn't change the Parliamentary arithmetic," he says.

    He says the majority of MPs want to ensure the UK respects the referendum result but doesn't leave the EU without a deal.

    And he also criticises the role of the Democratic Unionist Party, who are refusing to support Theresa May's withdrawal agreement because of their opposition to the Northern Ireland backstop.

    He says of the DUP's role in supporting the government in Parliament: "It's an important position but it's not a blackmail chip. The Tory Party is not going to be held to ransom."

  8. Labour MP calls for extension to Article 50

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  9. Chief whip now backing May

    He was one of three cabinet ministers not to have tweeted their support...

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  10. EU meeting ahead of Brexit talks

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  11. Three cabinet members yet to tweet support

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  12. 5 live caller Samuel: 'We need stability right now'

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  13. Whips 'calling MPs to find out about votes'

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  14. Pickles: Challenge is 'self indulgent and dangerous'

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  15. DUP: Brexit policy must change

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  16. 5 live caller Peter: 'They're not going to get a better deal'

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    Peter in Eastbourne tells 5 live's Your Call: "They’re a bunch of nerds aren’t they?

    "They’ve got a good leader. They’re not going to get a better deal. If they crawled on their hands and knees to the EU they’re not going to get a better deal than the one that's there already.

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  17. May to appeal for support

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  18. Cox: No time for 'self indulgent spasm'

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  19. 5 live listener Lesley: 'We can't afford to lose the leader of the country'

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    Lesley in Hampshire tells BBC Radio 5 live's Your Call:

    "At the moment we can’t afford to lose the leader of the country, whether you agree with her politics and her principles anyway, we can’t afford as a country for her to go now.

    "We’re going to end up in a situation where somebody is going to be put in as a caretaker prime minister, and we’re ending up in a country that becomes the laughing stock of Europe.

    "It couldn’t get much worse."

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  20. Cabinet meeting will not be held

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