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:
Feisty exchange between the PM and SNP's Angus Macneill, who chairs the International Trade Committee. He says there will be increased trade barriers with up to 94 countries after Brexit.
He asks her if she imagined she would ever 'beg the EU for two more years'.
Andrew Murrison, chair of the Northern Ireland committee, asks about the Irish border after Brexit. PM says she expects to be able to deal with a hard border when they reach a final deal.
She repeats her point about 'full alignment' and says it is not a 'default position, it is a 'default default position'.
Labour's Yvette Cooper, of Home Affairs Committee, is really pushing the PM where other MPs have been a bit more deferential.
Cooper asks about physical infrastructure on the Irish border, including cameras. PM says she will not give a running commentary
on every detail of our negotiations.
Moving onto Brexit, we get the first sign of tension.
Parliamentary sketchwriter Tom Peck is watching the committee and notes the rivalry between May and Cooper, who both covered the Home Affairs beat.
Tory health committee chair Sarah Wollaston is up now, asking questions about pressures on social care and the wider health service.
PM says the Government recognises the problem and has put more money into NHS and social care.
Dr Wollaston quotes a Lords committee, which warned of 'short termism in the NHS' and says it is lurching from one crisis to another.
PM says there is a need for long-term sustainability and there would be a consultation on social care next year.
Lib Dem Science and Tech committee chair Norman Lamb asks the PM to work across parties and tells her she should take up the offer as she got 'slaughtered' during the election for her social care plans.
He says patient rights aren't being met, standards aren't being met - it's 'intolerable', he says.
PM says cancer survival rates are among the best, but it was important to do better.
Lamb asks her if she wants to go down in history as someone who saved the NHS, rather than presiding over its decline.
PM jokes that she is always nervous of suggestions of 'going down in history'.
Jumping over to the Commons, where the Brexit Bill debate is ongoing. Solicitor General Robert Buckland has said the Government will not support an amendment put forward by Labour's Chris Leslie which asked for any retained EU legislation to be published in 'plain English'.
Mr Buckland said he understood the concerns raised in new clause 21 by Mr Leslie, but added: "I don't consider that it is feasible to impose a statutory duty requiring such summaries of all EU retained direct legislation.
First Secretary of State, Damian Green, said the Government is moving closer to agreement with the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales on its flagship Brexit legislation, PA Whitehall Editor Gavin Cordon writes.
Ministers in Scotland and Wales accused Westminster of a "power grab" and warned they will not pass the necessary "legislative consent motions" to enable the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to become law unless there are changes.
But giving evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee, Mr Green - who has been leading the talks with the devolved administrations - said he hoped it would be possible to reach a common understanding.
He said it was in the interests of all parts of the UK that the bill - which transposes EU laws onto the UK statute book - was passed, ensuring there would still be a working legal framework once Britain has left the EU.
"I am not just being hopeful. I have observed over the past three months the degree of of progress that we have made," Mr Green said.
"It is clearly not in the interests of people in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland for there not to be a working statute book.
"Equally nor is it in any of their interests for there to be barriers to trade between the different parts of the UK.
"So in a sense we have a common interest - the UK Government and all the devolved administrations - in making sure that we get to a satisfactory position here.
"There are obvious differences of emphasis but I genuinely think that we can come together in common agreement."
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