Rory Stewart is due to launch his leadership campaign in the Spiegeltend at the Udderbelly Festival on the Southbank in London.

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One of the hot topics in the leadership race is whether a new leader could make the UK leave the European Union without a deal, against the wishes of MPs.

Some Tory leadership hopefuls have said they would contemplate a no-deal Brexit - and Labour today has tabled a cross-party motion to try and stop it.

But could Parliament actually prevent such an outcome? Read more here.

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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said it would be a “terrible political miscalculation” for British politicians to believe they would get a better Brexit deal because the Commons has rejected the current draft agreement.

Speaking in the Irish Parliament, Mr Varadkar said he was “a little bit concerned at political developments in London”.

He said Theresa May “was not a bad negotiator” and the UK “got the best deal they could have got, given the limited leverage that a country leaving the EU has”.

He added that people who thought “when push came to shove, that Ireland would be abandoned, that EU unity would break” had been wrong.

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Justice Minister Robert Buckland has been reacting to Labour's proposal to try and stop a no-deal Brexit by tabling a motion to take control of the parliamentary timetable.

He says Parliament has tried to do this before - but last time, the EU was already considering an Article 50 extension, whilst he is not currently aware that is the case now.

"Therefore, what is the point of all this sound and fury?" he asks.

"The Europeans themselves have only got so much patience, and they've made it clear there needs to be a very good reason for an extension." he adds.

"Therefore I think those fundamental questions need to be asked before we have more parliamentary game-playing here."

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A Tory leadership candidate says it would be "disrespectful" to rule out a second Scottish independence referendum. Read more.

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Jean-Claude Juncker also adds that the EU "will have to work" with whichever of the 10 contenders replaces Theresa May.

He says his "working assumption" is that Brexit will happen before 1 November.

That's the day after the current Brexit deadline of 31 October - and also the date the next head of the European Commission is due to take office.

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Over in Brussels, outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has been taking part in an on-stage interview hosted by Politico.

Asked whether he thinks any of the Tory leadership contenders have been "telling lies", he says he regrets not intervening in the 2016 referendum as campaigners were free to "say whatever they wanted".

He notes, however, that the campaign to become PM is not taking place in front of the voters.

He repeats that there will be "no renegotiation" of the existing Brexit withdrawal agreement, although “clarifications" and "additions” to the non-binding political declaration could be considered - and he also rejects adding an expiry date to the backstop plan.

“It is not a treaty between May and Juncker, it is between the EU and the UK and has to be respected by whomsoever will become the British prime minister."

Asked whether he has a favourite in the race, Mr Juncker ponders the question for a long time before responding "no".

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Several candidates in the Tory leadership race say the UK must leave on 31 October - even without a deal.

But Labour’s Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer said: “MPs cannot be bystanders while the next Tory prime minister tries to crash the UK out of the European Union without a deal and without the consent of the British people.

"That’s why we are taking this latest measure to end the uncertainty and protect communities across the country.

“My challenge to MPs who disagree either with a no deal Brexit or proroguing Parliament is to back this motion and act in the national interest.”

Labour plans to force a vote in the Commons on Wednesday which would give MPs control of the timetable on 25 June.

The party believes MPs could then introduce legislation to stop no deal.

Labour has announced it will table a cross-party motion on Wednesday that would hand control of the parliamentary agenda to MPs on Tuesday 25 June 2019.

If the motion passes, MPs will have the chance to introduce measures, including legislation, that could help avoid a no-deal Brexit at the end of October.

The motion would also stop a future prime minister proroguing Parliament in order to push through a no-deal Brexit.

In August 2018, Mr Johnson wrote in theDaily Telegraph that full-face Islamic veils should not be banned, but it was "absolutely ridiculous" that women chose to "go around looking like letter boxes". He also compared them to "bank robbers".

Iman Atta, from campaign group Tell MAMA, told the Home Affairs Committee inquiry into Islamophobia that afterwards there was a rise in reports from women wearing the face veil and headscarves, with the words "letter boxes" and "bank robbers" being used.

She said political leadership came with responsibility and people who heard the words of their leaders would eventually use those words themselves.

She appealed to the Conservative leadership candidates to be responsible with the language they used.

One Conservative MP has launched a strong attack on Boris Johnson, external in the anti-Brexit newspaper, the New European.

Former attorney general - and campaigner for another referendum - Dominic Grieve describes Mr Johnson as "a shallow populist - manifestly unsuitable for high office - who would undoubtedly be a disaster for the country and bring doom to the Conservative Party.”

Put him down as a maybe?

The banging of desks is how they show approval in Parliament.