A man and a woman have been arrested after a "civil war" threat was allegedly sent to Anna Soubry, Chuka Umunna, David Lammy, Angela Smith and Sarah Wollaston.

PM on collision course with Joe Biden and EU if he pushes ahead with "lamentable" proposals.

Seven MPs have resigned from the Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism. They are: Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey.

Anna Soubry has expressed frustration and sadness at the split in Change UK which cost the fledging party six of its 11 MPs this week, saying Chuka Umunna, the most prominent of the quitters, had “made a very serious mistake”.

‘How can we reproach other countries if their behaviour becomes reprehensible when we ourselves have such scant regard for the treaties we sign up to’, former Tory leader says

Labour’s leader in the House of Lords, Angela Smith, is spearheading a cross-party bid to force the government to set up a powerful new committee to report by September on the risks of a no-deal Brexit.

The former Labour MP Angela Smith will today reveal that she is joining the Liberal Democrats because the country’s two main political parties are “in the grip of extremists”.