Rolling coverage of the day´s political developments as they happen, including the latest from the Tory leadership contest and Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQsAfternoon description 9.49pm BST Brexit watcher Christopher James has reservations about the Grieve/Beckett plan to derail a no-deal Brexit via an amendment:Have gone through the Estimates. `Stop No Deal by defunding the Government´ would also mean: No NHS or schools funding No funding for Electoral Commission or National Audit Office No pay for anyone employed by the House Service (e.g chefs, security) No pay for MPs https://t.co/BajHtXsKdzWait: all spending? Or designated No Deal spend?It´s just a device to stop no deal that govt can´t ignore. Spending this financial year (as I understand it)No, i get that. I was just wondering whether it was literally all supply!Indeed. A vote on no deal seems to be their price.I had thought via @adampayne26 Grieve and Beckett were targeting main estimates. But apparently they are targeting departments DFID, DfE, DWP, MHCLG. So in a no deal scenario, no funds for overseas, schools, pensions, benefits, housing. Lovely plan! 9.37pm BST And this from Kevin Schofield from PoliticsHome on the matter:This is Huda Elmi, who sat on a Labour NEC panel today and voted for Chris Williamson´s suspension to be lifted. https://t.co/FMkJDpTaIV 9.31pm BST This from MP Luciana Berger, who left the Labour party earlier this year because she felt it had become an `institutionally anti-Semitic` party:I thought when I left it wouldn´t be so painful. But it hurts now even more.For anyone left behind in @uklabour who expressed outrage at the time - what is your red line? What are you going to do? Silence/mealy tweets are tantamount to complicity.https://t.co/oZbOgqBD4lRuth Smeeth & Margaret Hodge insisted tonight that under no circumstances would they leave Labour, despite their outrage over the Chris Williamson decision. They say they want `stay and fight`But Ian Austin & now Lu ...
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