senior critics of her brexit strategy, including boris johnson, the foreign secretary, david davis, dominic rab iain duncan smith, former pro—minister, and jacob rees mogg, who is the leader of the european research group, who has been vociferous in criticising the premise to's strategy from a pro—brexit point of view. david green is also there who did the david liddington drop before he was forced to resign over a controversy with a women journalist who behaved about his behaviour, but he is still regarded as one of theresa may was my closest friends in westminster and there is another car driving up. we might be lucky to work out who is coming out from this distance but it is not a bad view, not one you would get very often of the prime minister's country residence. it raises the question of whether reports turn out to be correct that she is under pressure to depart or quit in the coming days, and the question is always asked, where is the queen at the time because she would need to ask the queen. she is not regarded as the resigning type, she did not resign after failing to in the 2017 elect

johnson and brexiteers she is struggling to win over, borisjohnson and the former brexit secretary dominic rab jacob rees mogg, all influential brexiteers who she hopes that somehow she can get on board with her deal. i've got to say from where i am sitting now, it looks like a tall order. so far there has been very little sign that tory brexiteers are ready to roll over, nor is the dup or a labour mps in any great numberand nor is the dup or a labour mps in any great number and that is why the government thinks it has little chance as things stand of winning a vote. given the cast list assembled at the country house for possible to new among the brexit process, is it possible to get a deal with jacob rees mogg's group, the influential group, european research group, because effectively people are saying, theresa may should give a guaranteed timetable for her departure and then they might be able to bring themselves to vote for her deal. so at least she can go and say she has delivered on her promise, brexit deal, not on the 28th of march as she had kept saying, the original data but 12th of a

the fact of the matter is that dominic rab, a potential successor to theresa may, said today that theith the european union and them that unless this backdrop issue is addressed in a sensible way, these problems are going to remain. it is time to say to the eu that this issue needs to be sorted out. if they don't, what is the alternative? a softer brexit, permanent customs union. the way you voted on those this week was interesting. we will measure whatever options are available, does it deliver brexit and doesn't maintain the integrity of the united kingdom economically and politically? we want to make sure there are no internal trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. we will look at any option. whilst we believe it was right to vote leave, when we were in the european union people were happy with that in northern ireland because we were there together with everybody else. as we leave, or simple request as we don't create those economic barriers that could be interested in northern ireland in the long term. we will look at any proposal on that. there are many

and we have new voices coming in from dominic rab and his ilk.to be taking a very hard line saying, we need to go back to the eu and get legally binding changes to the backstop and if we don't do that, there will be a no deal. this is what he said. well, i thought the prime minister behaved with great dignity last night. obviously all the indicitive votes were voted down by mps and at the same time the speaker has made clear that nothing that has been presented to the house of commons that hasn't changed can come back again so i think this is a time for pragmatism, realism — and i know the discussions with the dup and others are proceeding at home. one thing i would like to see us do is go back to the eu, keep the arm of friendship open, explain that there is still a time for an exchange of letters providing a legally binding exit from the backstop and that the same time, and i know a lot of people will say the eu just won't move and that has been treated as a sort of fixture of these negotiations rather than being tested but if they still don't

we have also heard that when dominic rab stand up in the comments he will be backing the deal. the event of theresa may standing down. he is now saying he would back the deal. the damaging and destructive extension means we will never leave the european union and if we stand up the european union and if we stand up to all of those people we have to get those people what they ask for and that is to leave the european union, and this is the only way. mr speaker, what a shambles it has been and today we see desperate measures bya and today we see desperate measures by a desperate government. we hear that members of the government party are at loggerheads with each other and to add insult to injury, we now know that this issue, this hugely important constitutional issue, the biggest issue of my lifetime, is now going to be the centre of a conservative party leadership contest. that tells us what we need to know, this has stopped a long time ago being anything about the referendum in 2016 or anything about the british people, and is everything about the party that purports to be our