the brexit secretary, stephen barclay.nesday in parliament with me, david cornock. still to come, has your phone been hacked ? mps try to find out. back now to prime minister's questions, which weren't all about brexit. jeremy corbyn chose to focus on inequality and poverty. the labour leader claimed poverty levels for children and pensioners were rising, with a school in great yarmouth opening a food bank for its pupils and even the department for business establishing a food bank for its own staff in central london. theresa may sidestepped that question but said income inequality had been reduced since 2010. mr corbyn tried again. when the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in britain has increased by £50 billion in one year but there's not enough money to properly feed our children, or pay workers a decent wage, then we have failed as a society. this country is seeing the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, while the government is in the pockets of a super—rich elite. more children in poverty, more pensioners in

stephen barclay refered to the tory labour talks. including the discussion between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition this week. what we have made clear, and what the prime minister has made clear, is we will bring the withdrawal agreement legislation to the house the week after recess, and the house will get an opportunity to vote at that point. i would have thought it is clear that if the prime minister's deal is put for a fourth time, if it is allowed, it will fail just as it has failed three times already. but i want to make it clear that labour opposes the idea of passing the withdrawal agreement bill without an agreed deal. that would put the cart before the horse. and labour will vote against second reading on that basis. so how on earth does the secretary think that a bill to implement a deal that isn't before the house can pass in two weeks' time? or is this about keeping the prime minister in office for another week to give her a lifeline for today's meeting at the 22 committee? we have been clear, and i th

try again to stop a no—deal brexit but that remains the legal default and the brexit secretary stephen barclaying about this morning. we leave with no deal or we will revoke all be far better option is to actually leave with a certainty of what the committee here and many others are saying with a deal. is that your preferred option, you would prefer to leave with no deal? i have always said to revoke the biggest democratic decision in our history would be disastrous and fundamentally wrong. while i have been clear with my colleagues that i think a no deal outcome is destructive, i think there will be concerns on the committee like this about the consequence of no deal. but if parliament will not back a deal, needs to confront that reality andl deal, needs to confront that reality and i do think we in that instance need to bring forward our preparations to mitigate no deal because that will need to use the initial time we have. we will need to move at pace to do so. the brexit secretary speaking early on. going back to the bold new offer that the prime minister is proposing, is it fair to say t

philip hammond, stephen barclay and david lidington will attend the talks on behalf of the governmenta long bailey in place for labour. theresa may will have discussions with the chairman of the 1922 committee of conservative backbenchers graham brady later today, as calls increase for her to set a firm resignation date. in the last hour it has been confirmed by conservative party grassroots members will be holding a no—confidence vote in theresa may on june 15, it is non—binding but will put her under more pressure if they support that vote of no confidence. and theresa may is also expected to chair a meeting of the cabinet today. this will be the first time ministers have met since the conservatives lost over 1300 councillors in last week‘s local elections. our assistant political editor norman smithjoins me now. well, that is a rude awakening after the bank holiday weekend? quite a shopping list of to—dos for the pm, and it comes when the pressure on her over brexit keeps mounting, with sirgraham her over brexit keeps mounting, with sir graham brady going to see her, in affected de

you can never really escape brexit in eu circles because, even though theresa may is not here, stephen barclay we are making progress. when will they finish? a little glimpse of the post brexit future. the 27 leaders of the other eu leaders meeting at the top table in buildings like this, the uk still kind of involve but on the sidelines. an amazing moment a little while ago — all the leaders came out for their family photo little while ago — all the leaders came out for theirfamily photo in the square here, and the members of the square here, and the members of the public started applauding, so the public started applauding, so the leaders went over and chatted to the leaders went over and chatted to the members of the public, and we got our chance to stand and chat to angela merkel and emmanuel macron. i asked president micron if he was sad theresa may wasn't here, and he said, it's not my fault — the uk voted to leave. another glimpse of what the future looks like for the uk. adam, thanks. let's look at the weather forecast. not as changeable as yesterday, when there was frequent heavy show