Also during Prime Minister’s Questions, Chris Philp called for social media firms to share their data with the police, and to face legislation if they refuse to comply.
The Attorney-General says that “we’re now into the meat of the matter” and that discussions have been “robust” and “strong”.
The core of the Trade Secretary’s argument is that other countries will move fast once they know whether there’s a UK-EU deal or not.
She also says that Labour “respects the referendum result” but that the party rejects No Deal.
“The risk of her deal is that we leave in circumstances whereby we don’t know what we’re getting.”
He says it would be difficult and that there would be turbulence – but that plenty of preparation has been done.
She says that many Labour MPs share her concern about respecting the referendum result.
“It would be ridiculous to reject this opportunity for these uncertain and worse futures.”
He rejects the claim that the party is institutionally tainted but says that clearly “it has got a problem”.
The Defence minister tells the BBC that “it is not something that we can contemplate”.
The former Agriculture Minister spells out why he has resigned from the Government today over the possible planned delay to Brexit.
“It’s not just the implementation period. It would be for the whole of the backstop, and that would potentially be unlimited.”
“There was no mention whatsoever of any infrastructure, any hard border” in Dublin’s preparations for a WTO Brexit.
The former Attorney General claims that doing so would mean the Government had decided, as a matter of policy, to set aside its international law obligations.
“This, ultimately, is what vindicates the decision that the British people made to stand aside.”