Brexit Live: Theresa May faces questions from public as Brexit fallout continues

Theresa May faced calls to stand down as Prime Minister from a Conservative councillor as she took part in a radio phone-in as Brexit continued to dominate the political agenda.

While Mrs May was taking part in the LBC event, Environment Secretary Michael Gove made no comment amid reports he is set to quit his post.

Here’s the latest:

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Mrs May could not guarantee she had the support of the DUP, who prop up her minority Government, in the meaningful vote, but insisted she was still working with the DUP.

Responding to a question about whether DUP leader Arlene Foster had withdrawn support, she said: “I haven’t had a testy exchange with Arlene on that.”

LBC presenter Nick Ferrari pushed: “And they’ll vote for this deal?”

Mrs May said: “When this vote comes back every individual MP will decide how they will vote, whether they are DUP, Conservative, Labour, all parties within the House of Commons.

“My job is to persuade first and foremost my Conservative benches, those who are working with us – the DUP are working with us, obviously, confidence and supply – but I want to be able to say to every MP I believe this is the best deal for the UK.”

8.30am

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Asked whether she would give her ministers a free vote when the Brexit deal comes before Parliament, Mrs May told LBC: “There is Cabinet collective responsibility in this country. Government policy is Government policy.

“There is Cabinet responsibility. The Government will put its policy to the House of Commons.”

8.25am

Asked on LBC Radio whether she had spoken to Mr Gove about his future in the Government, Mrs May said: “I had a very good conversation with Michael yesterday actually.”

Mrs May said she had discussed the fishing industry with Mr Gove but, asked whether she had offered him the job of Brexit Secretary, she replied: “I don’t talk about things to do with the Cabinet reshuffle.

“I haven’t appointed a new Brexit Secretary yet, but obviously I will be doing that over the course of the next day or so.”

8.22am

However, a former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, Sir Simon Fraser, dismissed Mr Davis’s claim that it was still possible to reopen negotiations with the EU.

“David Davis was a terrible Brexit secretary. He could hardly be bothered to go to Brussels and rapidly lost respect there,” he wrote on Twitter.

“Preposterous for him now to suggest that EU deliberately delayed negotiations. They spent months waiting for him to engage.”

8.20am

Former Brexit secretary David Davis – who quit in July over Theresa May’s Chequers plan for leaving the EU – said it was still possible to reopen negotiations with Brussels.

“It is a dreadful proposal, it really doesn’t fly by any measure. It is not a deal we should accept,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

“The European Union has spun this out deliberately to try to use time against us. It will get to a point, I am quite sure, when it will be very tense and people will be very nervous about the way the negotiations go, but European negotiations are never over until they are concluded.”

8.16am

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Theresa May faced a call to stand down as PM from a Conservative councillor as she took calls on an LBC radio phone-in.

The man, who identified himself as Daniel from Louth, said he “commended” the PM for trying to strike a Brexit deal with the EU but “sadly that has not worked”.

Mrs May responded by going through details of the draft withdrawal agreement.

“You’re absolutely right that for a lot of people who voted Leave, what they wanted to do was make sure that decisions on things like who can come into this country would be taken by us here in the UK, and not by Brussels, and that’s exactly what the deal I’ve negotiated delivers,” she said.

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Environment Secretary Michael Gove made no comments about his future to reporters as he left his home, saying only “good morning” repeatedly.