Rolling coverage of the day´s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQsMay faces prospect of defeat in Brexit vote after ERG refuse to back herPMQs - Snap verdictLunchtime description 3.24pm GMT One of the amendments to the government´s Brexit motion tomorrow has been tabled by the Conservative pro-European, Anna Soubry. (See 10.54am.) It instructs the government to publish its most recent assessment of the impact of a no-deal Brexit on business. A few minutes ago Soubry told BBC News why she tabled it. She said:I´m told that the civil service, at the behest of the cabinet, has looked at the implications on trade and business if we were to leave the European Union, crashing out without a deal. And I am told that it does not mince its words, and it makes it very plain that that outcome would be disastrous, in the words of the business secretary, Greg Clark, `ruinous` for British business, if we leave without a deal. And I want the government to publish that paper.It´s been to cabinet. I´m told that some members of the cabinet argued that it should be published. They were overruled. In all the circumstances, I think it is absolutely critical. My constituents, not just business but everybody in my constituency, and of course across the country, has a right to know and understand the consequences of Mrs May´s decision not to take that calamitous outcome off the table. 2.56pm GMT Here is my colleague Heather Stewart on the Conservative/Labour Brexit talks.Keir Starmer and Jon Trickett had a `frank and serious` exchange, with David Lidingon and Steve Barclay today, a Labour spokesman says, adding, `Starmer and Trickett called on their counterparts to work to stop the prime minister further running down the clock`. 2.49pm GMT Here are two assessments of thinking in Brussels on Brexit that are worth reading.Mujtaba Rahman, the former European commission official who is now a managing director at the Eurasia Group consultancy ...
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