There was no election announcement today, but one could still be looming. Here’s a summary of the day’s events:

• A cross-party group of MPs unveiled a bill aimed at that would create a new crucial date for delivering Brexit: October 19.
• If there is no new deal with the EU approved by then, the bill would force the prime minister to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline until 31 January 2020 and avoid no deal
• In an address outside Downing Street, Boris Johnson said there were “no circumstances” under which he would ask for “another pointless delay” to Brexit
• While the prime minister said he did not want an election, a Downing Street source said a motion for a general election would be tabled on 14 October if MPs vote to take control of business in the House of Commons on Tuesday
• Tory MPs intending to vote against the government were threatened with losing the party whip, but several said they would not be intimidated
• Meanwhile, the EU is planning to treat Brexit as a “major disaster” offering an emergency fund to hard-hit member nations

Former Chancellor Philip Hammond is one of the Conservative MPs threatened with the sack by the party if they rebel over this week's Brexit vote.

He has now received a show of "overwhelming support" from his local party in Runnymede and Weybridge tonight as it announces his reselection as their candidate for the next election.

The constituency says the decision is not about "Brexit or the next two months" but shows their confidence in him and his work over 22 years. But it is also likely to be seen as an endorsement of his opposition to a no-deal Brexit.

Arlene Foster, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, which supports the Conservatives, says that if an election is coming, her party would stand on its record of delivering £1bn of investment to Northern Ireland.

"We'll stand on a record of delivery, we'll stand on a record of standing four-square for the union," she says.

But although she says "we are not afraid of elections" she called on MPs to focus on getting a deal with the European Union.

"What we should be concentrating on is getting a deal to leave the European Union in an orderly fashion," she said.

The government launched the Get Ready for Brexit information campaign on Sunday, reportedly planning to spend £100m on it.

Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal plans, said the billboards and social media adverts encourage "shared responsibility" for preparing to leave the EU on 31 October.

But Labour MP Mary Creagh says she has written to the cabinet secretary, the UK's most senior civil servant, demanding that he halt the campaign.

She said it was "Tory Party propaganda" and that it would break election rules over government impartiality.

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BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says the European Union still believes no-deal Brexit is the most "probable outcome".

But she says that, in Brussels, there's a belief that a general election could help people who still hope for a deal.

Mr Johnson is wrong that the rebels are weakening his hand in negotiations with the EU, she says.

"The prime minister is incorrect when he said that the main leverage that the UK has over the EU is a credible threat of no deal Brexit," she says.

"Frankly EU leaders believe Boris Johnson with his no deal threat and it’s still not enough to make them change the withdrawal agreement."

Instead, she says the "fatal problem" for him is that he does not have a majority.

"He cannot guarantee to EU leaders that the new Brexit deal will finally pass through the UK parliament," she says. An election could change that.

But she adds that there are no substantial negotiations taking place at the moment, despite visits to Brussels by the prime minister's EU envoy.

The onus is still on the UK to devise a "credible alternative" to the Irish backstop, she says.

A tense exchange has taken place between cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg and a doctor who was involved in planning for a no-deal Brexit earlier this year, over concerns over supplies of medicines.

Dr David Nicholl, a consultant neurologist with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, called into an LBC phone-in programme and asked the leader of the House of Commons what mortality rate he would accept if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal.

Mr Rees-Mogg said this was "the worst excess of Project Fear" and the doctor should be "quite ashamed".

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Labour MP and Brexit supporter Kate Hoey says any MP who votes for the bill aimed at stopping a no-deal Brexit "will be showing more loyalty to the European Union than to the United Kingdom".

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Earlier today Jeremy Corbyn said the UK "needs" an election, but ex-MP Tony Blair warned Labour could "struggle" in any poll held before the Brexit issue was "resolved".

"Boris Johnson knows that if no-deal Brexit stands on its own as a proposition, it might well fail," he said.

"But if he mixes up the Brexit question with the Corbyn question in a general election, he could succeed, despite a majority being against a no-deal Brexit, because some may fear a Corbyn premiership more.

"He [Mr Corbyn] should see an election before Brexit is decided, for the elephant trap it is."

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Elections expert Prof John Curtice says tomorrow Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "has a crucial decision".

He says voting for a general election is "what Downing Street wants" and the Labour Party is at just 25% in the opinion polls, lower than it was in 1983 under Michael Foot.

Voting against holding a general election would "take some pressure off" Tory rebels who want to vote for the bill proposing an extension to the Brexit deadline, which Number 10 says it will refuse.

Prof Curtice says it is not clear that it was in the Labour Party's interest to support an election.

"The problem is that the Labour Party, for weeks, months has been insisting that the best way to resolve Brexit was to hold a general election," he says.

"I think in truth it now needs to sit down coolly and decide whether it’s going to be hoisted by its own rhetoric."

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Former education secretary and Conservative rebel Justine Greening tells the BBC that she does not intend to let threats of being expelled from the party change her vote.

She says: "My job is to represent my community and I'm going to stand firm in doing that. They're extremely concerned about the damage of no deal to the economy.

"Rather than almost attacking MPs who are representing their constituents' concerns, the better thing to do would be to start addressing those concerns properly for a change."

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Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly tells the BBC that Tory MPs who vote against the government could be expelled from the party.

"MPs who seek to take power away from their prime minister, their party and hand it to someone else are stepping over a line," he says.

"I hope it doesn’t come to that. I hope everybody recognises that what we need to do now is focus on delivering Brexit."

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There is an upbeat mood from the Tories coming out of the Downing Street reception, although those attendees with concerns may be staying quiet at this stage.

The prime minister did an informal version of what he said in front of Downing Street.

Theresa May was seen, one MP said, but not for long.

“Leading members” of the Gaukeward Squad were apparently not there but some of those “struggling to know what to do” were.

The Gaukeward Squad is the nickname for those Conservative MPs actively opposed to a no-deal Brexit. David Gauke, a former justice secretary, is among the group.