Cooper's urgent question is not answered by Home Secretary Grant Shapps, but instead cabinet office minister Brendan Clarke-Smith

He says Suella Braverman resigned following a "contravention of the ministerial code".

"The PM has made clear the importance of upholding high standards in public life and her expectation that ministers should uphold these standards," he says.

"Ministers only remain in office so long as they retain the confidence of the prime minister. She is the ultimate judge of the standards of behaviour expected of a minister and the appropriate consequences of a breach of those standards."

Braverman has "explained her decision to resign and to be clear the information that was circulated was subject to Cabinet confidentiality and under live discussion within the government," he says.

"In light of this, it would not be appropriate to discuss the specifics of the matter further in the house."

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, is on her feet now asking about the resignation of Suella Braverman as home secretary yesterday.

Within the next few minutes Labour are set to ask new Home Secretary Grant Shapps an urgent question in the House of Commons following Suella Braverman's resignation from the role yesterday.

Stay with us as we bring you the latest.

The House of Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle has launched an investigation into reports of misconduct in voting lobbies last night.

Hoyle said he had asked the Serjeant at Arms and other officials to "investigate the incident and report back to me".

He reminded MPs to "treat each other with courtesy and respect".

The vote last night was supposed to be about fracking but there was confusion over whether it was really a motion of no confidence.

It descended into chaos with Tory MP's 'bullying' and 'manhandling' voters in the lobby, according to reports from MPs.

Labour shadow minister Anna McMorrin wrote on Twitter that she witnessed one Conservative MP "in tears" in the lobby after the vote.

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International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch says she has no intention of resigning following reports she could be the next Tory MP to exit Liz Truss's cabinet.

Bloomberg said yesterday, external that Badenoch could be a "resignation threat" and follow in the footsteps of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

But she replied this morning that she has no plans to resign. Asked by reporters if the government was fully functioning she replied: "It's quite clear that there's quite a lot of turmoil in the party but what we all need to do is keep calm heads and work to resolve it and I'm confident that we can do that."

Yet another Tory MP has issued a public call for Liz Truss to step down as prime minister, saying her position is no longer tenable.

Sheryll Murray has joined other colleagues who have already said publicly Truss should quit, adding that she has sent a letter to the 1922 Committee chairman stating she doesn't have confidence in the PM.

The South East Cornwall MP tweeted , externalthat she has submitted a letter to Sir Graham Brady, who leads the group of backbenchers, saying despite having "high hopes" for Truss, "after what happened last night her position has become untenable".

Government borrowing costs rose in early trade on Thursday as financial markets got their first chance to react to the events of the past few hours.

However, while interest rates – or yields – on government bonds climbed as trading began, they were still below levels that had been seen on Wednesday morning.

Government borrowing costs spiked last month after the tax-cutting mini-budget, but then fell back after the Bank of England stepped in, and after Jeremy Hunt became chancellor.

Earlier, Bill Blain, strategist and head of alternative assets at Shard Capital, told the BBC’s Today programme: “I think the markets are watching in a kind of stunned open-mouthed horror.

“The problem we’ve got is that the last couple of weeks have really destroyed the image of political competency and that’s one of the key elements to make any economy work.

“There are three things you need: You need a stable currency, you need a sustainable bond market and you need competent politics, and because it looks like competent politics are broken that’s creating the volatility that we’re seeing in markets.”

Labour has been granted an urgent question to the new home secretary Grant Shapps - on the dramatic departure yesterday of his predecessor Suella Braverman.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, will ask the question at 10:30.

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says that Liz Truss has "probably got hours left, if not days" as PM.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, the Labour MP added that he thinks the damage is done.

He continued:

"We get another Conservative Prime Minister and people are meant to believe that after 12 years the arsonists who started the fire in the first place are going to suddenly become the firefighters? I don't think so.

"They don't have the ideas. They don't have the team. They don't have the plan. And they don't have the right to expect the support of the British people."

The Conservative Party "stands firmly alongside" Liz Truss as the government works to deliver its programme, Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan told BBC Breakfast earlier.

Earlier, on the Today programme, Trevelyan sidestepped questions about whether Truss would lead the Conservatives into the next election.

Conservative MP for South West Devon Gary Streeter has become the seventh MP to publicly call for Liz Truss to go.

He's tweeted, external to say "Sadly, it seems we must change leader."

He goes on to say, "the Parliamentary Party has to urgently rediscover discipline, mutual respect and teamwork if we are to (i) govern the UK well and (ii) avoid slaughter at the next election."

Nick Eardley
Chief political correspondent

The chief whip has just gone into No 10.

Last night, many Tory MPs thought she'd quit.

She has to decide how to discipline MPs who didn't back the government last night.

I asked if she'd lost control. She didn't respond.

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Chris Mason
Political editor

It was an extraordinary thing to hear Anne-Marie Trevelyan speak on the BBC, as she was charged with articulating a defence of the prime minister yet could not say under repeated questioning whether or not the PM would lead her party into the next general election.

It is a question which in 99.9% of political circumstances a minister would say yes to without a moment's hesitation. But she could not bring herself to do it.

It doesn't necessarily mean things today will move with the same Olympian pace as yesterday. Sometimes these things can ebb and flow.

But the idea that Liz Truss can continue for very long and return serenity to this government - particularly with the colossal platter of international and economic challenges facing her - just seems so, so difficult.

And that is the view of the vast majority of Tory MPs I've spoken to.

Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has declined to say whether Liz Truss will lead the Conservatives into the next election.

Asked on the Today programme if she wants Truss to lead the party into a general election, Trevelyan did not answer directly, saying: "I want her to continue delivering the really important work we're doing."

Pressed on whether Truss will take the Conservatives into the election, she adds: "We all stand firmly with her to get on with delivering the business of government."

She then added that the government wanted to allow Chancellor Jeremy Hunt time to "bring together the budget".

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Conservative peer Lord Ed Vaizey has echoed calls for Liz Truss to step down, adding that there could be six Tory MPs vying to replace her.

Referencing earlier comments from MP Crispin Blunt, he says as well as Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak contending to lead the party, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman also "regards herself as a credible candidate".

"In terms of shocking self-belief, there will be five or six people out there who genuinely believe they could be prime minister," Vaizey said.

"If the Tory Party cannot have a degree of self-knowledge and realise the only way forward is to appoint someone, they're pretty much sunk."

He added that even if Sunak was appointed, he thinks there would be elements of the party who would potentially regard him as an "illegitimate" leader.

"It is a two-stage process, both of which are extremely difficult to effect - you have to appoint a leader and then have that leader lead a loyal parliamentary party that does what it's asked to do over the next two years," he said.

There is even more confusion over whether last's night vote on fracking amounted to a motion of confidence in the government following the transport secretary's appearances on the morning broadcast round.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan told Sky News the fracking vote was not a confidence motion, contradicting a late-night message from No 10 that insisted it was.

Initially on Wednesday the government said it was a confidence vote, before climate minister Graham Stuart rowed back on this amid suggestions No 10 was facing a large rebellion from MPs in the party.

There were reports that chief whip Wendy Morton and deputy chief whip Craig Whitaker resigned after this intervention from Stuart because their authority as enforcers of party discipline had been undermined.

Then, a few hours later, Downing Street said both "remain in post".

Nick Eardley
Chief political correspondent

If it looks like chaos - that’s because it is.

Various MPs have said the scenes in Parliament last night were the worst they’ve ever seen. There were hours of confusion about whether the chief whip was still in her job (she decided to stay eventually).

This morning, MPs who didn’t vote with the government have been told they will be disciplined. There is more bad blood brewing.

It also looks like the PM is facing trouble from the right of her party. Suella Braverman’s resignation letter was excoriating. Lord Frost, Boris Johnson's former Brexit negotiator, has added his name to those saying she should resign.

It’s hard to see how Truss can win back authority and credibility in her party after what’s happened this week. She’s going to try, it seems, but she faces a huge uphill struggle.

Two things might work in her favour, still.

One is the lack of an agreed alternative.

The other is fear among Tory MPs about more chaos rocking the markets.

Tory MP Crispin Blunt has told the BBC that Liz Truss's position as prime minister is "wholly untenable" and that she must be removed today.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the backbench MP says Truss has shown "a lack of self-knowledge".

"It ought to have been clear that she did not have the capacity to lead our party and I don't think she should have put herself up for the leadership in the first place."

Blunt, who was the first Tory MP to call for Truss to resign following Kwasi Kwarteng's sacking as chancellor, added: "We need to effect change today in order to stop this shambles and give our country that governance it needs under our constitution."

He added that the next PM should be Jeremy Hunt or Rishi Sunak.

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The cabinet still has confidence in the prime minister, Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said, adding that Liz Truss is the right person to be leading the Conservative Party.

"She's a prime minister and we continue to support her," Trevelyan tells BBC Breakfast.

When asked if Truss is the best person the Tory Party can offer to by prime minister, she adds: "Yes, she was selected through a long and tortuous process over the summer.. .by our members and that's how the Conservative party system works to choose a leader and we stand firmly alongside her."

Trevelyan says she's "very proud" to be transport secretary, but adds that images from Westminster were sad and she hopes that any MPs who "harassed" others to vote in the confidence motion will be disciplined.

Prime Minister Liz Truss has "about 12 hours" to turn her premiership around, a Conservative MP has said.

Simon Hoare said the government had been "buffeted by a lot of bad luck and a huge amount of events all coming in".

He called on No 10 and the whips' office - which enforces party discipline - to narrow its policy aims and cut out the "contentious stuff that people are uncomfortable with and try and focus on doing three or four thing supremely well".

Hoare tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he feels "anger, despair, sadness" as "good work which has been done over recent years appears to be dissolving before our eyes".

Asked if Truss's government can be turned around, he adds: "Yes, but I think there's about 12 hours to do it.

"Today, tomorrow are crunch days. I have never known a growing sense of pessimism in all wings of the Tory party."