While finishing an answer on when to have an election, one of the police recruits appears to feel unwell and has to sit down.

Boris Johnson says he is going to wrap up, but continues for another minute while the recruit sits behind him.

Before leaving the stage, he repeats his calls for an election on 15 October and says he will have one earlier if Jeremy Corbyn wants one.

The Daily Mirror's political editor suggests Jo Johnson's resignation "must've got to him".

Asked about the removal of the whip from former Tory colleagues and if there was a way back for the 21 rebel MPs, Boris Johnson repeated his mantra on getting out of the EU by 31 October.

He added: "Of course discipline is always tough, but here we are among a body of men and women that know you sometime have to administer discipline and be strong about your message".

Pushed again on whether the public could trust him to act in the national interest if his brother could not, Boris Johnson said: "People disagree about the EU, but the way to unite the country is to get this done.

"The longer this goes on, the more dither and delay, inspired by Jeremy Corbyn, the worse it will be."

Asked by another journalist if he would ever seek an extension to Brexit from Brussels, he said no, and that he would "rather be dead in a ditch".

But he would not say if he would resign or not over the issue.

Asked about the resignation of his brother Jo from government, the PM calls him a "fantastic guy... who did a fantastic amount of work for us".

He added: "Jo doesn't agree with me about the European Union. It is an issue that divides families and everybody.

"But I think he would agree we need to get on and sort this out."

Asked if he should resign next, Mr Johnson says he has "sworn to uphold" the result of the referendum.

Mr Johnson said he didn't want the government to focus on Brexit.

"That has been going on for three years," he adds. "I think [the public] want us to focus on their needs.

"They want to see a government that funds [the police] and allows [police] to get on with their job.

"But we must, must, must settle this EU debate. Then I want to get on and deliver all the priorities of the British people."

The PM says British Police have a "unique relationship" with the public not found in other countries.

He says he is "immensely proud" of that and bringing crime down.

Mr Johnson then takes a hit at Jeremy Corbyn, repeating his claim that staying in the EU costs £1bn a month.

"Unfortunately Parliament voted yesterday to scupper our negotiating power and to make it much more difficult for this government to get a deal," he said.

"So what I want to do now is give the country a choice. Either go forward with our plan to get a deal, take the country out on 31 October 31 or else somebody else should be allowed to see if they can keep us in beyond 31 October."

He says the Tories are "levelling up" funding across the country for education and the NHS.

"But in my view policing, safe streets, is the absolute bedrock of society" he adds.

"It is what drives a successful economy. It gives people the confidence to invest and improve their neighbourhood.

"Safe streets are vital in our country and it is you, the police, who are delivering safe streets. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Boris Johnson begins his speech in front of police recruits by saying it must be the safest place in West Yorkshire.

He says: "This is the beginning of a fantastic programme to recruit a big new wave of police officers across our country."

The PM has taken to his podium to give a speech during a visit to Yorkshire - the day after MPs rejected his bid to hold an early general election.

He is stood in front of a number of new police recruits.

Government documents which suggest Boris Johnson agreed to suspend Parliament two weeks before making it public have been published during a court appeal.

The co-leader of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie, says the documents "reveal his [Mr Johnson's] contempt for parliamentary democracy".

"He crafted his plan to subvert parliament by shutting it down weeks ago," he says.

Read more about the documents here.

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The prime minister has been urged not to allow the 21 rebel Tory MPs - those who voted against the government to block a no-deal Brexit - back into the Conservative Party.

Shrewsbury and Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski told the BBC he believed the group - which includes former members of the cabinet like Philip Hammond, David Gauke, Justine Greening and Ken Clarke - had lost the confidence of their local Conservative associations.

Mr Kawczynski told BBC Politics Live: "I said to the prime minister yesterday, I very much hope that he will stand by his decision not to back off and not to restore the whip."

That was despite being booed by Tory MPs for similar comments he made at a party meeting last night.

Former chancellor Ken Clarke says he thinks many other Conservative MPs are feeling "torn" like Jo Johnson, who has announced he's resigning from the party.

He says: "It must have been an agonising decision and I have every sympathy with Jo, who has put his conscience, and the national interest first.

"There are lots and lots of Conservative MPs like him, there are quite a lot of ministers – several in the present cabinet – who are completely torn."

Mr Clarke, who had been a Tory MP for 49 years, was one of 21 Tory MPs who was thrown out of the party after rebelling against the government in a vote on Tuesday.

"I’m slightly bemused," he says. "To suddenly have the whip withdrawn is a novelty."

He jokes that everyone is still very friendly in the House of Commons – "including hardline Brexiteers", adding that it's a very "confusing situation".

Boris Johnson has arrived in West Yorkshire, where he is meeting police officers and will give a speech shortly.

It follows his meetings earlier in the day at Downing Street with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US vice president Mike Pence.

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