MPs reject attempt to seize control of Commons agenda in latest attempt to prevent no-deal Brexit

In the Q&A, he is asked whether the country can trust him - and he replies: "Well, of course. You think I've been somehow inconsistent."

Asked by Sky News about worries regarding his character - including previous comments about women wearing niqabs to "letterboxes" - he replies that some of his colleagues have different opinions. 

He adds that sometimes the plaster "comes off the ceiling", but says if offence is caused, he is sorry for that. 

"But I think it's vital for us as politicians to remember that one of the reasons that the public feels alienated now from us all as a breed, is because too often they feel that we are muffling and veiling our language, not speaking as we find - covering everything up in bureaucratic platitudes, when what they want to hear is what we genuinely think."

Asked about whether he has taken a Class A drug and previous comments on cocaine, the ex-foreign secretary dodges the question.

Johnson says the "canonical account" of previous drug taking activities has appeared many times in the press, but he is focusing on his vision for the future of the country. 

Pressed directly on whether he had ever taken cocaine, he replied: "I think the canonical account of this event when I was 19 has appeared many times and i think what most people in this country really want us to focus on is what we can do for them and what our plans are for this great country of ours."

It will take “six to eight months” to build up supplies of medicines for a no-deal Brexit, a leaked cabinet note says – undermining Boris Johnson’s threat to crash out of the EU on 31 October.

The warning says the pharmaceutical industry needs that period of help from the government “to ensure adequate arrangements are in place to build stockpiles of medicines”. The timing of this leak, emerging just moments before Mr Johnson began his campaign launch, is surely no coincidence.

Asked about his remarks about "F*** business" that provoked outrage last year, Mr Johnson says he thought the anti-banking stance taken after the crash was "disastrous". 

Pressed by the Guardian on whether he would resign as PM should the UK still be in the EU after 31 October, he failed to answer the question. 

Boris Johnson has dodged questions over whether he has used cocaine, despite previous admissions that he had taken the drug when he was at university, writes political correspondent Lizzy Buchan.

The leadership frontrunner refused to answer questions on his conflicting statements over his use of the class-A drug, when he launched his bid to be the next Tory prime minister.

Johnson spoke for 12 minutes and then took six questions from the press over 20 minutes, texts political editor Andrew Woocock, who was in the audience as the ex-foreign secretary launched his campaign. 

As he left the stage, there were calls for him to take more questions from the many journalists who still had their hands raise.

As the Tory leadership contest rages on, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are about to go head to head at prime minister's questions. The are a fair few vacancies on the Conservative benches - it's almost as if they have more pressing issues.

Jeremy Corbyn kicks off his questions at PMQs by echoing Theresa May's tributes to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. 

The Labour leader says Brexit is in "crisis" and the Conservative Party is about to impose a prime minister on the country without a general election. 

Mr Corbyn says car production has been cut in half, and Ford has said a no-deal Brexit would put a further 6,000 jobs at risk. He asks whether the PM will take the opportunity to reiterate that a no-deal Brexit would be disastrous for the UK. 

The PM says the announcement by Ford is worrying, and says the business secretary is working closely with the company. 

On no deal, Ms May, appearing a tad irritated, says it would come a little more sincerely if he hadn't voted against her deal continuously. 

Jeremy Corbyn says the legacy of Theresa May's government is a legacy of failure. They promised a Northern powerhouse, they failed to deliver it. 

May says Corbyn can pose for his YouTube clip as much as he likes, but the government has delivered a racial disparity audit, a record cash boost for the NHS, and leading the world on climate change. "That's a record of Conservatives in government to be proud of,' the PM says. 

Boris Johnson pushed for UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the midst of a bombing campaign in Yemen blamed for the deaths of dozens of civilians, newly released emails show.  

Backing for the sale of components to Riyadh to make Paveway bombs came days after a food factory was bombed – killing more than a dozen people – and just weeks after a major report by Human Rights Watch found Saudi-led coalition airstrikes had targeted civilian warehouses, a farm, and two power stations.