PMQs live: Theresa May to clash with Jeremy Corbyn after Tory Remain rebels call for ‘government of national unity’

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Theresa May is set to face her final PMQs before the summer recess after she narrowly avoided a damaging Brexit defeat and as Tory Remain rebels called for a cross-party “government of national unity”.

The Prime Minister has faced a tumultuous few days after she bowed to Tory Eurosceptic demands on Monday to toughen up her Brexit plan before seeing off a bid by Conservative Remainers on Tuesday to soften her strategy.

She will seek to unite her deeply divided party when she addresses the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs on Wednesday afternoon.

But she will first have to navigate an appearance in front of the powerful Liaison Committee, with the chairs of Parliament’s select committees to grill the Prime Minister on Brexit and domestic policy.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary who quit over Brexit last week, is expected to deliver a resignation statement in the House of Commons immediately after PMQs in a move which will be watched closely by Downing Street.

The civil war within the Conservative Party continued to escalate this week as Remain and Leave factions battled to change Mrs May’s Chequers plan for Brexit.

The growing row between the two sides has brought Mrs May’s authority over her party increasingly into question.

Her position took another hit on Wednesday morning as Anna Soubry, the Conservative former business minister, called for the creation of a “government of national unity”.

The leading Tory Remainer said Mrs May was no longer “in charge” of her Government and Brexiteers, led by the prominent Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg, were “running our country”.

She claimed the nation “simply cannot go on like this” as she suggested there needed to be a new government formed of “sensible” MPs from across the Commons.

Ms Soubry is the second Conservative MP this week to call for a “government of national unity” to tackle Brexit after Sir Nicholas Soames who said withdrawal was the “most serious problem” facing the UK since the Second World War. 

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Boris Johnson in House of  Commons for PMQs