Damian Green resigns - as it happened: Theresa May's deputy quits as MPs vote on Brexit Bill
All the updates from Westminster on Wednesday - as they happened
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Your support makes all the difference.Damian Green has resigned as the First Secretary of State after admitting he made “misleading” statements about pornography found on his Commons computer.
Mr Green described allegations that he downloaded or viewed pornography on his parliamentary computer as "unfounded and deeply hurtful", but admitted he had not been clear in his past statements on the issue.
Meanwhile, Theresa May has been accused of trying to wriggle out of giving MPs a "meaningful vote" on the terms of the Brexit deal, after she repeatedly dodged calls to guarantee it by senior MPs.
Ms May underwent a 90-minute grilling by the Liaison Committee - the only Commons committee able to compel the Prime Minister to give evidence - where Brexit, social care and sexual harassment featured heavily on the agenda.
She also faced Jeremy Corbyn for the last Prime Minister's Questions clash of the year, where Ms May struggled on homelessness figures before admitting that Brexit could be delayed in "exceptional circumstances".
Rounding off the day, MPs are debating the eighth - and final - day of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill's committee stage, where efforts to amend the bill by Tory rebels appear to have been thwarted by the Government.
For all the latest updates, see below:
Theresa May is up on her feet for PMQs and has kicked off by offering Christmas wishes to the armed forces.
Labour's Rosena Allin Khan raises homelessness and foodbanks, saying 2,500 children will be homeless on Christmas day. She asks when the Government will say 'enough is enough' on austerity.
PM says anybody hearing that would assume it meant 2,500 children were on the streets and it does not. She says homelessness is lower than under Labour.
Jeremy Corbyn wishes the whole house, armed forces and public servants a Happy Christmas. He also pays tribute to NHS staff, many of whom won't get a break this Christmas - asks if the NHS has the resources it needs this winter?
PM says all emergency services will be working hard on Christmas Day and says NHS has prepared more extensively than ever before.
Jeremy Corbyn says the Government gave the NHS less than half of the funds chief executive Simon Stevens asked for.
He lists a range of waiting time issues and presses May on whether it has the resources it needs.
The PM says it does, rattling out figures on cancer survival rates, tests, routine operations.
Corbyn hits out at the PM on social care, asking why there was no money put aside in the Budget.
He cites figures showing 2.3m older people are missing out on vital social care.
Here is our story on the data:
After trading reams of stats, May mocks Jeremy Corbyn over his claims in a recent interview that he would be PM by Christmas.
She said: "Not long ago he was saying he'd be PM by Christmas. He was wrong, I am and the Conservatives are in Government."
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