Theresa May has refused to rule out quitting if she loses a showdown Commons vote against Conservative rebels on the customs union.

A close ally of Boris Johnson has reportedly accused Theresa May’s top aide of leaking the Foreign Secretary’s controversial letter on the Irish border.

Conservative grandee Michael Heseltine has thrown a grenade amid recent Tory unity as he blasted Theresa May over her latest big Brexit speech.

Boris Johnson was prevented from publishing the full details of his memo to Sir Jeremy Heywood on customs arrangements with Ireland, after it was leaked to the press on Tuesday.

Leo Varadkar gave a lukewarm reception to the Prime Minister’s Brexit speech and criticised her for not providing more detail in the brewing crisis over the Northern Ireland border.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published their latest briefing for House of Lords Committee stage of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill. This briefing covers amendments to clarify the status of future decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU,  introduce a domestic Right to Equality in the Bill and rule out the use of delegated powers to reduce equality and human rights protections

The EU’s chief negotiator has welcomed Theresa May’s big Brexit speech today, saying she has recognised the “trade-offs” she must make to secure a deal with Brussels.

Theresa May has called on the European Union to "get on with" negotiating a Brexit deal - as she admitted that failing to reach an agreement would be bad for the UK.

Read the full text of Theresa May's speech on the future UK-EU trade deal here.

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) welcomes the Prime Minister’s ambition for a comprehensive trade agreement, calling on the Government to take into account the planks of the Construction Industry Brexit Manifesto published in November 2017.

Downing Street has hit back at the White House after Donald Trump said he planned to slap huge tariffs on imported steel.

A senior Sinn Féin MP has said the party will not take up its Westminster seats despite calls for them to take part in crucial Commons votes on Brexit.

Keith Richards, Managing Director of Engagement at the Chartered Insurance Institute, comments:

NOAH chief executive Dawn Howard says: “There was much of interest in the Prime Minister’s Mansion House address, with relevance to the animal medicines sector.

As Prime Minister Theresa May is set to announce more detail on the Government’s Brexit negotiating stance in the final ‘Road to Brexit’ ministerial speech, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) urges the Government to publish the long-awaited Brexit position paper on financial services as the insurance and financial planning profession divides over its desired future regulatory relationship with the EU.

MPs are in line to receive an extra £1300 a year from next month when their salaries rise by 1.8%.

The collapse of the construction and services giant Carillion was extensively covered in the news at the start of the year. For most commentators, Carillion’s liquidation was about how a superficially successful company could accrue such large debts or dwelt on the politics of how the government kept awarding Carillion contracts to deliver public services when it had already issued a profit warning.

Theresa May will vow to strike the most ambitious trade deal with the EU that the world has ever seen after Brexit.

Theresa May has warned Donald Tusk that EU proposals which would effectively keep Northern Ireland in the customs union after Brexit are "unacceptable".

Conservative MP Michelle Donelan writes following her Westminster Hall debate on Pensions auto-enrolment in which she notes that only one in seven self-employed people are part of the scheme with 75% of employees already benefitting.

Labour would crack down on Bitcoin because it is “a gigantic Ponzi scheme”, Diane Abbott has revealed.

Cabinet ministers have called on Theresa May to make changes to a major Brexit speech just 24 hours before she makes it.

A prominent Conservative donor has pledged to financially back the Liberal Democrats’ campaign for a second referendum on Brexit.

Theresa May has come under fresh pressure over Northern Ireland after a clip surfaced of her saying there would "have to be" a hard border if Britain left the EU.