Brexit - as it happened: Boris Johnson makes first speech since resigning over Theresa May's Chequers deal
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Your support makes all the difference.Boris Johnson has claimed "it is not too late to save Brexit" in his first speech since resigning from government, where he tore into Theresa May's Chequers plan.
The ex-foreign secretary gave a resignation statement to MPs, where he claimed a "fog of self-doubt'' has fallen over Britain since the prime minister's Lancaster House speech and claimed her new plan would reduce the UK to "economic vassalage".
However Ms May was spared the pleasure of listening to his address, as she faced grilling by senior MPs on the Liaison Committee over her Brexit record.
Ms May also attempted to rally her deeply divided party at a meeting of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers.
Earlier, Jeremy Corbyn attempted to exploit divisions in the Conservative ranks by claiming the party was “too busy fighting each other to negotiate” during prime minister's questions.
The Labour leader was also embroiled in a fresh antisemitism row after a veteran MP was heard berating him for being a "f****** antisemite and a racist".
His office has vowed to take action against Dame Margaret Hodge, for the comments, which came amid a furious internal row over the party's new code of conduct.
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May says they must be enduring a terrible time and says Nice has issued draft guidance on it.
Labour's Harriet Harman asks a furious question about proxy voting after the Tories broke a pairing agreement with Jo Swinson, Lib Dem deputy leader.
May says the breaking of pairing should not have happened and proxy voting is being considered.
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Action will be taken against Labour MP Margaret Hodge over a tirade in which she allegedly called Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite, a spokesman for the Labour leader has said.
The spokesman branded Dame Margaret's comment "clearly unacceptable".
He declined to reveal the precise nature of the action being brought against the Barking MP, who is herself Jewish.
But he said that it would be taken under Parliamentary Labour Party procedures requiring MPs to behave in a "respectful" way towards colleagues and not to "bring the party into disrepute".
A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn also said John Woodcock should stand down as an MP and trigger a by-election in his Barrow and Furness seat.
The spokesman said: "In normal circumstances, if you stand for election on one platform and then decide to abandon the platform you stood on, basic rules of democratic accountability suggest that you should then put that to the electorate."
The spokesman insisted that the disciplinary process in Mr Woodcock's case was carried out in a "completely rigorous and fair" way.
But he said that Mr Woodcock's resignation meant that "the process cannot be pursued and accountability and recourse for the complainant can't be achieved through Labour Party processes anymore".
MPs have whipped through a series of urgent questions and are now debating proxy voting, after a blunder meant the Tories broke a pairing agreement with the Lib Dems.
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