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Jessica Elgot (now), Frances Perraudin and Alexandra Topping (earlier)

Three Tory MPs quit committee over Bercow bullying claims – as it happened

Theresa May
Theresa May is briefing her cabinet on progress in the Brexit negotiations. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Afternoon summary

  • Theresa May will attend the 1922 committee of Tory MPs tomorrow, Tory sources have confirmed, in what is set to be a fiery exchange over the handling of the Brexit negotiations. (See 16.53)
  • Three Tory MPs have quit a Commons committee chaired by the Speaker, John Bercow, citing a failure to tackle Westminster bullying. (See 15.09)
  • No 10 denied any rows at the cabinet meeting, although ministers told May she had to ensure that any backstop arrangements designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were not indefinite. (See 14.52)
  • A specialist police team set up to investigate crimes against MPs dealt with 242 complaints last year, compared with 102 in its first year of operation. The unit launched in August 2016 after the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox.
  • The stepfather of a boy in hospital has called for David Davis’s former chief of staff to apologise for calling him a “pathetic cretin” in response to a tweet of the child’s EU flag bedcover.
  • Downing Street said it is “deeply concerned” at reports of the discovery of body parts of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. G7 foreign ministers have released this statement:

The G7 foreign ministers, of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the high representative of the European Union, condemn in the strongest possible terms the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has confirmed took place in its consulate in Istanbul.

The confirmation of Mr Jamal Khashoggi’s death is a first step toward full transparency and accountability. However, the explanations offered leave many questions unanswered.

We reiterate our expectation for a thorough, credible, transparent and prompt investigation by Saudi Arabia, in full collaboration with the Turkish authorities, and a full and rigorous accounting of the circumstances surrounding Mr Khashoggi’s death. Those responsible for the killing must be held to account. Saudi Arabia must put in place measures to ensure something like this can never happen again.

The circumstances of Mr Khashoggi’s death reaffirm the need to protect journalists and freedom of expression around the world.

We also extend our deepest condolences to Mr Khashoggi’s family, his fiancée, and his friends.

That’s all from me today, many thanks for your comments. Hopefully we’re not too disappointing in the shoes of the irreplaceable Andrew Sparrow, who is back next week.

Updated

A Tory source said May would go to the 1922 committee meeting to make a speech and address concerns of some colleagues.

“She is going and taking the opportunity to talk to colleagues,” the source said. Senior cabinet ministers are also expected to attend.

Theresa May talks to a colleague.
Theresa May talks to a colleague. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

The meeting was the subject of some of the more dark speculations in the Sunday papers.

One Tory briefed the Mail on Sunday that the PM should “bring her own noose” – rhetoric that drew cross-party condemnation. The senior Brexiter Steve Baker said the anonymous MP should have the whip withdrawn.

The Mail on Sunday piece also said MPs would be expecting an “uncharacteristically powerful, persuasive and coherent” address in order to head off a no-confidence vote.

Updated

The Sun’s political editor Tom Newton Dunn says May will go to the 1922 committee of Tory MPs tomorrow. It is likely to be a testing meeting although some of the more vicious briefing from MPs in the Sunday newspapers may well buy her a more sympathetic audience.

I’m just back from the afternoon lobby briefing from Downing Street.

  • The spokesman refused to comment on the resignation of three members of the government from the Commons committee chaired by Bercow, saying it was an individual decision.

They will set out their own reasons. The PM has said it is important that the house leadership responds fully and promptly to Dame Laura Cox’s recommendations. She has said there can be no place for bullying or harassment in any workplace.

  • The spokesman dismissed reports on RTÉ that the EU will offer May a UK-wide customs union as a way around the Irish backstop issue, but one that will have to be negotiated beyond the withdrawal agreement as a separate treaty.

Take any of it with a pinch of salt. The PM set out our position yesterday in relation to the backstop, that remains the case today.

The prospect of Northern Ireland being placed in a different customs arrangement to the rest of the UK is unacceptable.

The House of Commons has voted to pass a law to that effect.

  • No 10 said reports of the body parts of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi being discovered were ‘deeply disturbing’

Our thoughts are with the family, for whom the reports must be particularly distressing. The location of Mr Khashoggi’s body is just one of the questions we need answers to. As such, we will wait for the full result of the Turkish investigation.

  • No 10 would not commit to backing reforms to abortion law in Northern Ireland, even though several ministers voted in favour of a private member’s bill, including the international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt. Amendments have also been submitted to the Northern Ireland bill tomorrow.

Amendments will be selected by the Speaker, I wouldn’t pre-empt that. Abortion has been a free vote in the past. The prime minister has consistently said that abortion has always been a devolved matter and the best way forward is the issue is decided by locally accountable politicians in the Northern Ireland assembly.

Of course, there is no current executive in Northern Ireland. (This bill tomorrow is in fact to give civil servants new powers to keep the country running.)

Updated

This is Jessica Elgot - taking over the blog into the afternoon.

The Speaker’s office has responded to the MPs’ resignations, saying he accepted them “with regret” and would consider the future of the committee.

Dame Laura Cox’s report has highlighted some of the most significant challenges women face in our parliamentary culture.

In the spirit of an independent approach, the Speaker feels it is right to reflect on the best means of tackling these cultural issues via the house’s response to the Cox report.

He will therefore consider the future of the reference group following the commission meeting tomorrow.

John Bercow speaks during prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons
John Bercow speaks during prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons Photograph: PA

Mims Davies, one of the MPs to resign, has also released a statement.

I felt that remaining on this (committee) currently did not sit right following Dame Laura Cox’s report, and as this committee is chaired by the Speaker, I sadly felt in a difficult position. I did not take this decision lightly.

Updated

Three Tory MPs quit committee over Bercow bullying claims

Three Tory MPs have quit a Commons committee chaired by the Speaker, John Bercow, citing a failure to tackle with Westminster bullying.

Education minister Anne Milton, Tory whip Mims Davies and Will Quince, a PPS in the Ministry of Defence, have all resigned from the committee on representation and inclusion.

The move came ahead of a crucial House of Commons meeting on Wednesday where MPs and independent members will set out their response to a damning independent report by Dame Laura Cox, which said parliament was failing to deal with abuse and that senior management should step aside.

Bercow has been the subject of multiple bullying claims, including from his former private secretary, which he vehemently denies.

Quince has said he “cannot in good conscience remain a member of the group while Bercow is chair”. He said he had reached the conclusion Bercow could not resolve the serious issues raised by the report.

The committee was originally set up in 2016 by Bercow to respond to a report on how to make parliament more inclusive.

Other members include Labour MPs Margaret Hodge, Gavin Shuker, Seema Malhotra and Jess Phillips and Lib Dem MP Tom Brake. Tory Maria Miller, a fierce critic of Bercow, and the SNP’s Lisa Cameron are also members.

Updated

It looks like the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, is in line for a telling off after breaking parliamentary rules and taking a picture in the Commons chamber.

After being alerted to the picture, the Commons press office tweeted: “Photography is not generally permitted in the House of Commons chamber, and where it is seen or reported to be happening the individual in question will be asked to stop and reminded of the rules.”

Updated

Here is our story on this morning’s lengthy cabinet meeting. Dan Sabbagh reports that ministers had “an impassioned” discussion about the importance of time-limiting any Brexit backstop arrangements agreed.

No 10 denied any row had taken place at the meeting, although ministers told Theresa May she had to ensure that any backstop arrangements designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were not indefinite.

Ministers also exchanged views about how any mechanism to ensure the UK can quit the backstop could be constructed, in a discussion in which several ministers weighed in on the issue at the heart of British concerns about the Brexit talks.

My colleague Sarah Marsh reports that the number of alleged crimes against MPs has more than doubled in a year, prompting concern about the level of intimidation and abuse politicians are facing.

A specialist police team set up to investigate crimes against MPs dealt with 242 complaints last year, compared with 102 in its first year of operation. The unit launched in August 2016 after the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox.

The data, obtained through freedom of information from the Metropolitan police’s parliamentary liaison and investigations team (Plait), was not broken down by the nature of the crimes.

Lunchtime summary

A slightly late lunchtime summary here for you –

Updated

Reports EU is prepared to offer May UK-wide customs arrangement

RTE is reporting that the EU is to offer Theresa May a UK-wide customs arrangement as a way of breaking the impasse on the Irish border, writes our Brexit correspondent, Lisa O’Carroll.

RTE’s Europe editor, Tony Connelly, who has seen a draft of the latest proposal is reporting that a UK-wide deal could be offered in a treaty sitting outside both the withdrawal agreement and separate to the future relationship deal.

It would “feature prominently near the top of a re-drafted withdrawal agreement” and previous references to Northern Ireland being part of the EU’s customs territory removed, as previously reported.

The question is: will this get the two sides to the landing zone? The EU has been implacably opposed to a UK-wide customs deal while the prime minister has been implacably opposed to their Northern Ireland only deal for the backstop arrangement on the Irish border.

Yesterday the prime minister went further than before, laying down four new red lines for a backstop agreement, one of which was a “legally binding” UK-wide customs arrangement.

According to Connelly’s report this new EU customs proposal would be in a legal article, which might give May the comfort she needs.

However, the withdrawal agreement would still contain a Northern-Ireland only arrangement for a backstop and spell out how that would work under the union customs code, the basis of the EU customs union.

This may not be sellable to Brexiters but it is seems that creating some sort of bridge between legally binding withdrawal agreement and a customs arrangement in a standalone legal article is a fresh idea.

Updated

A 10 minute rule bill to end the criminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland has passed by 208 votes to 123 in the Commons.

The bill, which was introduced by the Labour MP Diana Johnson, calls for a repeal of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which criminalised any woman seeking an abortion with a theoretical maximum term of life imprisonment. The act was superseded by the Abortion Act 1967 in England and Wales, but it remains the law in Northern Ireland, forcing women to come to Britain to have abortions.

My colleague Dan Sabbagh reported her intention to present the bill to parliament on Sunday.

Johnson said her 10 minute rule bill would give MPs their first chance to vote on the abortion law in Northern Ireland since a May referendum overturned a ban in the Irish Republic.

The UK supreme court indicated in June that Northern Ireland’s abortion legislation was incompatible with human rights, although judges did not strike down the law on a technicality.

Johnson hopes that her bill will win enough support to force Theresa May to act, although there is no chance it will become law because the government will not give it parliamentary time. “I want to keep up the pressure on the government to allow MPs to have a proper vote,” Johnson said.

Responding to Johnson in the Commons, Conservative MP Fiona Bruce said the bill was “against the principle of devolution” and would “completely undermine the substance and spirit of the Good Friday agreement”. She said “it should be up to Northern Ireland to change their abortion law as, when and if they want to”.

The bill will have its second reading on 23 November.

Updated

Cabinet to receive weekly update on Brexit preparations

The latest from this morning’s lengthy cabinet meeting is that Theresa May has ordered a weekly update for ministers on the progress of preparations for Brexit – both with and without a withdrawal deal.

The prime minister’s official spokesman said the updates would be provided by the Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, who told ministers at Tuesday’s meeting that “good progress” was being made.

Updated

Government to consult on adding folic acid to flour to reduce birth defects

The Department for Health and Social Care has just announced a consultation on the mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid to prevent fetal abnormalities. A release on the department’s website says the consultation will launch in early 2019 and will “consider the evidence around folic acid fortification as well as the practicality and safety”.

Evidence from the Scientific Advisory Committee of Nutrition (SACN) suggests that expectant mothers can take folic acid during pregnancy to significantly reduce the risk of foetal abnormalities including:

    • spina bifida – where the membranes around the spine do not close properly and in some cases affect walking or mobility
    • anencephaly – where the majority of the brain never develops

Approximately 700 to 900 pregnancies are affected by neural tube defects each year in the UK.

Women who are trying to become pregnant are advised to take a daily supplement of 400 micrograms of folic acid before they conceive and during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. However, around half of pregnancies in the UK are unplanned, so many women are missing out on these nutrients early in their pregnancy.

Our health policy editor, Denis Campbell, reported on this issue earlier this month:

A host of government, NHS and advisory bodies support fortification, which already happens in more than 80 countries, including the US.

The move is also backed by medical royal colleges, including those representing professionals involved in babies’ and children’s health – obstetricians and gynaecologists, paediatricians and midwives. In the US there has been an estimated 23% reduction in neural tube defects (NTD) since folic fortification of flour was introduce in 1998.

Updated

Hello, I’m Frances Perraudin in Manchester, taking over from Lexy Topping.

It looks like Michael Gove will miss the British-Irish parliamentary assembly this afternoon, where he was due to speak, because of an extended cabinet meeting. The cabinet met at Downing Street at 9.30am, where Theresa May was set to brief them on the progress of the Brexit negotiations after last week’s Brussels summit failed to achieve hoped-for progress.

I bring you updates throughout this afternoon ...

No sign of a vote of no confidence in Therea May

There is no sign that the 48-letter threshold required to trigger a vote of confidence in Theresa May’s leadership has been reached, writes my colleague Dan Sabbagh.

Graham Brady, the chairman of the committee, needs to receive signed letters from 15% of the party’s MPs to trigger a ballot that if ever triggered could herald the end of May’s premiership.

But Brady is indicating he is going about his normal business today; with no plans to get in contact with Downing Street.

The number of letters calling for a vote is kept confidential until the threshold is exceeded, and rumours about the total lodged constantly circulate at Westminster. Over the last 24 hours claims have been made that the 48 threshold has been reached, although there is never any firm basis for this sort of speculation.

What it does reflect is the febrile mood in Tory ranks as the Brexit negotiations drag on and fears remain that the UK will be locked into the customs union or other long-term arrangements with the European Union that would impact on British sovereignty.

Some MPs hostile to May say that she has to be challenged this week or there is not enough time before negotiations conclude at the end of November; but many others warn that any challenge to her now would prevent any deal being reached at all.

Updated

Jared O’Mara, MP for Sheffield Hallam, has told the Yorkshire Post that he cannot attend prime minister’s questions because of his autism.

Arj Singh reports:

An MP who has autism has revealed he cannot attend prime minister’s questions because of the shouting and “aggression” in the House of Commons’ most-watched session.

Independent Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O’Mara revealed he had asked the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, to make adjustments to the way he chairs debates so he could attend but this was “not taken into account”.

O’Mara, who faced criticism for being largely absent from the Commons during a suspension from Labour for sexist and homophobic comments he made before he was an MP, revealed he has only attended PMQs once, telling a Westminster Hall debate on Monday night: “So far my autism has not been taken into account by parliament. I have asked for adjustments from the Speaker’s Office so that I can comfortably speak more in the chamber, because with things such as shouting, when everyone is heckling, the aggression and the loud noises mean I cannot cope. “I have only been to prime minister’s questions once because of all the shouting.”

Updated

Irish PM 'confident' British government will honour commitment to Irish border

The Irish PM, Leo Varadkar, has said he has “every confidence” in the British government’s intention to honour its commitment to the Irish border.

Speaking this morning Varadkar said:

From our point of view, what Ireland is looking for is what we have always been looking for from day one and what has been committed to by us and the UK government in principle and in writing on a number of occasions now.

That is, we have a backstop that gives us an assurance that there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland no matter what happens, that that backstop is legally operable and that applies unless and until there is a new agreement.

That is something that the UK government has committed to in principle, committed to in writing, and I have every confidence that the UK government will honour that commitment.

Britain is an important country, a serious country, a great country with great history. I don’t think they will want to be moving away from their commitment.

Updated

There is little letup in the criticism of former MP and special adviser to David Davis, Stewart Jackson, today.

Wes Streeting MP, leading supporter of a people’s vote, has this morning called it a “new low” (yes, we weren’t sure that was possible either):

Whatever your views on what’s gone wrong with Brexit, attacking the family of a child recovering from an operation in hospital is a new low. There is a vicious tone to much of our political debate today and that has been often been driven by Brexit supporters like Stewart Jackson. But this latest episode goes far beyond the usual rough and tumble of politics. Stewart Jackson should apologise to this boy and his parents.

A eurosceptic cabinet source has told Jess Elgot that Jackson was “out of line”:

Stewart Jackson is completely out of line, that this man could be taken into Downing Street by Davis is deeply troubling. David needs to condemn this immediately.

Updated

Scientists warn that hard Brexit would cripple progress

A coalition of Nobel laureates has said a hard Brexit could cripple UK science, in a letter to Theresa May and the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, writes my colleague Jessica Elgot.

The letter, signed by 29 Nobel prizewinners and six Fields medallists, says the UK “must now strive to ensure that as little harm as possible is done to research”.

Among the signatories was Sir Paul Nurse, the British geneticist who won his Nobel for pioneering work on cancer therapy and tumour diagnosis, and the biologist Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society.

“The increasing chaos – because that’s what it looks like – around the Brexit negotiations is causing huge concern among scientists,” Nurse told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “The government doesn’t seem to be putting this at the top of its agenda.

“I can’t tell you how depressed our young scientists are about the messages coming out of government. This is just awful. You are letting your extremists dominate the debate. You have to get a grip on them.”

A survey of more than 1,000 staff at the Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research lab in Europe, found 97% of them believed a hard Brexit would be bad for UK science and 82% thought it would have a detrimental effect on European science.

The science minister, Sam Gyimah, said the government was making preparations to protect collaboration in the event of a no-deal Brexit. “We all recognise that a chaotic Brexit will be a significant setback for science,” he said. “That is why we have got a plan to ensure that, deal or no deal, there will be no cliff-edge for UK science.”

Gyimah said there were “unprecedented amounts of money going into UK science – £7bn in the next five years – that is more than we have ever invested in research and development”.

[...]

The letter from the scientists came amid warnings that emergency powers may be needed to ensure patients can still get the medicines they need after a no-deal Brexit. The Healthcare Distribution Association said 50% of medicines in a typical wholesaler’s warehouse had been through the EU at some point.

Martin Sawer, the HDA’s executive director, who is due to give evidence to MPs on Tuesday, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “A no-deal, we believe, would require some sort of temporary emergency powers to ensure consistent supply to patients in the UK.

“It’s a problem about aligning regulations to start with. That creates an ease of transport. It’s also a logistics issue about all the transport infrastructure being tied up in Calais, trying to get into France, that we need to get back here.”

It could take “months or years” for alternative supply routes to be established, he said. “We believe, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, there would be shortages and effects to that commodity system that we can’t foresee,” he said. “We don’t know what’s going on, so, because of an uncertain future, we can’t yet plan for what a no-deal would look like.”

The UK police’s ability to tackle serious and organised crime could be “significantly impacted” by a no-deal Brexit, the chief of the National Crime Agency has warned.

The NCA director general, Lynne Owens, said she was “deeply concerned” that withdrawal from the EU without a deal could deprive UK police of the use of tools like the European arrest warrant and the shared Schengen information system law enforcement database.

Asked about the potential consequences for policing of a no-deal Brexit, Owens told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

We are working very closely with our policing partners because we are deeply concerned about the consequences of a no-deal Brexit.

We have been clear from the very beginning that our ability to share intelligence, our ability to jointly investigate - in this world where there are no borders because of technology - could be significantly impacted, particularly through the use of the Schengen information system, European arrest warrants and our ability to deploy overseas.

She suggested that post-Brexit cooperation, which may be favoured by police chiefs in the UK and EU states, could be blocked for political reasons. She said:

Whenever I talk to my operational partners overseas, they see there is two-way benefit, but, of course, we aren’t politicians.

Updated

David Davis’ former chief of staff criticised

David Davis’ former chief of staff was under fire on Tuesday for tweeting that the family of a sick child were cretins because of an EU-flag bedcover, writes my colleague Jessica Elgot.

Stewart Jackson, the former Tory MP for Peterborough who became Davis’ chief of staff at DExEU after losing his seat, was responding to a tweet with a picture of a boy recovering from an operation in Great Ormond Street hospital. “He’s incredibly brave but gutted he can’t be at the People’s Vote march today,” the tweet said, showing a picture of the boy in a hospital bed under an EU flag.

Jackson tweeted: “What a pathetic cretin.”

The tweet came after a day of condemnation of violent rhetoric language used by some anonymous Tory sources to describe ousting the prime minister.

Labour’s Wes Streeting said he should “delete it and issue a grovelling apology”.

One Tory Brexiteer source expressed deep frustration. “After a weekend of disgusting briefing about knives and nooses it is so depressing to read David Davis’s key ally attacking the family of a sick child because they campaigned for remain,” the source said.

“We should be able to disagree without resorting to this - it tars all Brexiteers with this vile brush. It’s a real worry that a man with such appalling judgment could be Chief of Staff in No10 if DD ousts the PM.”

Science minister Sam Gyimah said that those who used violent language damage were damaging their reputations. “De-humanising and derogatory language, no matter how strongly you agree, is unacceptable in our political discourse,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“I think that was a low bar, and I hope we do not go back to that. No one can take credibly or seriously people who uses that language.”

Jackson deleted the tweet on Monday night and told Politico: “I think it’s awful that people with extreme views on remain like this parent should invade a sick child’s privacy to make a political point.”

Updated

Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen has been on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, denying that he was the source of anonymous quotes suggesting that the prime minister might be “knifed” by internal critics of her Brexit plans or should “bring her own noose” to a meeting of Tory MPs.

The comments have been widely criticised across the political spectrum, with Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Jacob Rees-Mogg among those condemning the language. Senior Conservatives have demanded the party remove the whip from the anonymous MP who briefed the violent rhetoric to Sunday papers.

Bridgen told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It’s not me. I have no idea who it was. I don’t normally hide behind anonymous quotes. I think these sorts of comments are unproductive.”

The North West Leicestershire MP, who submitted a letter of no confidence in Theresa May in July, added: “We either change the prime minister’s policy or we have to change the prime minister.”

The Press Association report:

Bridgen said he understood that, if 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady receives the 48 letters needed to trigger a confidence ballot, he would first call each of the MPs involved to check whether they wish to withdraw their letter. He confirmed he would not change his mind.

He played down the prospect of Mrs May being toppled by the votes of fewer than 158 Tory MPs - 50% of the total. In the past, as few as 70-100 negative votes would be enough to force her to stand down, but a “new paradigm” had been created by the survival of Jeremy Corbyn when many of his MPs have no confidence in him, said Bridgen.

“Toppling the Prime Minister isn’t the only solution,” he added. “The Prime Minister could pivot away from the Chequers deal which is deeply unpopular in the country and doesn’t deliver the Brexit we promised.”

Prominent Tory remainer Anna Soubry has expressed some gentle exasperation at Bridgen’s inclusion on the flagship radio show.

Updated

Good morning and welcome to politics live blog. I’m Lexy Topping and I’ll be standing in for the inimitable Andy Sparrow today, inevitably doing a worse job at keeping you abreast of the main politics news of the day.

This morning Theresa May will brief the cabinet on the progress of the Brexit negotiations after last week’s Brussels summit failed to achieve hoped-for progress. The cabinet is set to meet at Downing Street at 9.30am.

At 10am Michael Gove will give a speech to British-Irish parliamentary assembly, while around 12.30pm energy minister Claire Perry will give evidence on preparations for a no-deal Brexit and the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, meets with his Dutch counterpart, Stef Blok.

In the House of Lords it’s the second reading of the upskirting bill , while the Lords will also hear oral questions on the £1,012 fee to register for British citizenship, food security after Brexit, and the prevention of anonymous social media accounts.

And at 4.30pm the Gibraltar chief minister, Fabian Picardo, will give evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee on, yes you guessed it, Brexit

In other politics news, world-leading scientists have warned Theresa May not to allow Brexit to create new barriers to collaboration across Europe while the body representing health product distributors has warned that emergency powers may be needed to ensure patients can still get the medicines they need after a no-deal Brexit.

More on all of these as they come...

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