UK Foreign Secretary and Conservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt said Monday that he would decide whether a Brexit deal can get through the House of Commons by September 30th if he became prime minister.

At a speech in London outlining his 10 point plan for Brexit, Hunt said that he would ramp up no-deal preparations "on day one" if he was elected, pledging a 6 billion pound (7.6 billion US dollar) fund to support the fishing and farming sectors who export to Europe.

Hunt added that if he assessed there was no deal to be done he would "immediately cease all discussions with the European Union and focus the whole country's mission on no deal preparations."

He assured EU citizens that their rights would be protected whatever the outcome.

Hunt clarified that no deal was "not my preferred destination, but if a withdrawal deal is simply not on the cards, then the only way to fulfill the democratic mandate of the referendum is to leave without a deal, which is what we will do."

The discussion over a no-deal Brexit is at the forefront of the battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party between Hunt and Boris Johnson.

The winner will become prime minister next month.

Johnson, a former mayor of London, has said Britain will leave on October 31 "do or die" while Hunt says it's an artificial deadline that could be extended again.

Brexit has already been delayed from its original date of March 29 after Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal three times.

Both leadership candidates have said they will look to negotiate changes to the withdrawal agreement that deals with citizens' rights post-Brexit, Britain's financial obligations to the EU and making sure no hard border returns between EU member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

UK POOL

London - 1 July 2019

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, British Foreign Secretary and Conservative candidate for Prime Minister:

"Throughout the campaign I've made it clear that my preference is for us to leave with a better deal, one that addresses the problems with the existing deal and specifically the backstop, ensures we have a fully independent trade policy and allows us to design our own immigration system. I know that with my experience of business and government I'm the best placed candidate to get that better deal. But I also know that renegotiation will not be easy. But it won't be impossible either. And with the parliamentary arithmetic that we face, securing a deal that can pass through Parliament remains the quickest and safest way to deliver Brexit."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, British Foreign Secretary and Conservative candidate for Prime Minister:

"But what if the European Union refuses to budge? We need a comprehensive no deal plan, because Brexit is about more than slogans more than belief more than positive thinking. You can't leave the European Union on a wing and a prayer. You need a plan. Today I'm setting up my ten point plan. Firstly on day one of my premiership I will order an immediate ramping up of no deal preparations."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, British Foreign Secretary and Conservative candidate for Prime Minister:

"In order to avoid a 'take it or leave it approach' which would be fatal to negotiations, I and the Brexit secretary will engage with European leaders and the European Commission during July and August to do our very best to come to an agreed way forward. I'll also establish fifthly a National Logistics Committee led by the Department of Transport to produce a plan to keep goods flowing in and out of the UK in the event of no deal. This will include an assessment of any emergency powers required to ensure ports and airports will work in a coordinated way nationally."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, British Foreign Secretary and Conservative candidate for Prime Minister:

"The Treasury will start preparations on a no deal Brexit budget to be delivered the first week Parliament is back in September. This will include my existing policies of cutting corporation tax to 12 and a half percent, increasing the Annual Investment Allowance to five million pounds and taking 90 percent of high street businesses out of rates which I will introduce in any circumstance. Number seven, HMT will also produce a no deal relief programme. This will include a six billion pound fund for the fishing and farming sectors who export to Europe to ease transition out of the European Union whilst honouring our international obligations. It will also consider what relief other industries will require."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, British Foreign Secretary and Conservative candidate for Prime Minister:

"I'll make a judgment on the 30th of September as to whether there is a realistic chance of a new deal being agreed that can pass through the House of Commons. If my judgment and the judgment of my cabinet is that there is a deal to be done, I will seek to conclude the negotiations and pass a new meaningful vote and any necessary legislation in the House of Commons before the end of October. If my judgment is that there is no deal to be done I will immediately cease all discussions with the European Union and focus the whole country's mission on no deal preparations. One thing I will not negotiate on is citizens rights. So to put the millions of EU citizens who have made the UK their home, to put them all at ease I can reconfirm to them that their rights in the UK will be protected whatever the outcome."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, British Foreign Secretary and Conservative candidate for Prime Minister:

"If the (European) Commission engages in good faith and negotiations are going well, then I don't believe we should ignore progress made and throw away that deal for the sake of an arbitrary deadline. With a deal done, billions more will be available to invest in the economic and social missions that I've set out and we should welcome that. But I want to be crystal clear with members of the Conservative party, with my parliamentary colleagues and with the European Union: if there is no engagement on this deal, if it's apparent that the Commission is simply not interested in negotiating, if there's no willingness to tackle the shortcomings of the backstop and if there is no immediate prospect of a deal that can get through Parliament, then there will be no kicking the can down the road and we will intensify and finalise our preparations to leave without a deal. So from the start of my premiership I will work on the basis that we are leaving on the 31st of October with or without a deal unless the Commission changes its position. No deal is not my preferred destination, but if a withdrawal deal is simply not on the cards, then the only way to fulfill the democratic mandate of the referendum is to leave without a deal, which is what we will do."

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The Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament said on Thursday that the UK deciding to leave the European Union had caused a renewal of interest in the European project.

Speaking at an event at the London School of Economics, Guy Verhofstadt said that the EU had gained popularity since the UK's referendum last year.

In a wide ranging speech on Brexit, Verhofstadt also put forward a vision of an ever closer union of remaining European Union states including the chance to elect politicians at a European level, as opposed to just nationally.

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AGENCY POOL

London - 28 August 2017

1. Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, walking to lectern

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament

"I have to tell you that I also know why Theresa May gave her speech in Florence. I presume that I know it. I think she chose Florence because Florentine politics in the 15th Century made her feel at home I think. You know, backstabbing, betrayal, noble families fighting for power and so, and so on, so I think that this is an environment that she recognised very well."

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament

"At the very beginning she referred to the renaissance as a period of history that defined what it meant to be European. Well that's exactly what the European Union is all about. The European Union, ladies and gentlemen is far more than a peace process after the Second World War, far more than the Franco-German reconciliation alone. The European Union is all about civilisation. It's in fact the political translation of that civilisation, of that European common culture and values. That is what this European Union is about."

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament

"So criticising people for wanting to keep their European identity, accusing them of split allegiance is binary, is old fashioned. I think it's reductionist view on identity. I think it's perfectly possible but I look to the Mayor (of London, Sadiq Khan, in the audience), who has more experience, to be a Londoner, English, British, and European at the same time and there is no contradiction and that has nothing to do with split allegiance. So my message at the beginning of my intervention - watch out, beware of politicians who want to define your identity. The only reason they do so is to categorise people. To reduce you to your nationality, your ethnicity your religion and, split allegiance are two words that belong to the langauge of states that are in my opinion totalitarian, and not of democracies, not of democracies like Britain. In all democracies, people they find their own allegiance, define themselves how British, how European they feel and not the minister of foreign affairs, if I may say so (in reference to UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson)."

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament

"I have to tell you very honestly, and I've said this already a few times but i want to repeat it here in London, but I continue to believe that Brexit is a very negative project, that it is in fact a waste of time and energy. The destruction of a strong political bond that made people on both sides of the channel richer freer than ever before. But we are democrats. We have to respect the outcome of the referendum. And more over we have to implement it and that is exactly what Europe will do and also will establish a new relationship, a new relationship between the European Union and the UK that hopefully will be beneficial for everybody, for both. And if you ask me the question, is there really, really, really, nothing positive you can say about Brexit, well I can say yes, there is something positive. It has opened people's eyes on the continent."

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit negotiatior for the European Parliament

"There has been a fundamental shift in the thinking about Europe, in the heads of a number of people and leaders in Europe. And that is not to look anymore to Europe and the European Union as a bunch of nation-states, but as a genuine political community, as a democracy on a continental scale, and two proposals that I already defended a number of years ago but nobody believed to be realistic - they were dreams that would never realise themselves - are proof of that. The first proposal is the call, we have seen that I hope, for transnational list, the idea to turn the European Union into one big constituency and to give to all citizens in Europe two ballots - one to choose their own representative of their country in the parliament and the second one to elect a number of politicians on the European level, what in my opinion would make European politics more democratic and what will lift in fact this European democracy on a continental scale, what we absolutely need."

7. Verhofstadt being seated

Nominations close on Monday in the Brexit-dominated race to become Britain's next prime minister, a contest that will be decided by lawmakers and members of the governing Conservative Party.

With a 1600 GMT deadline to submit nomination papers, almost a dozen contenders were already battling it out over tax policy, past drug use - and, of course, Britain's stalled departure from the European Union.

The winner will face the challenge of breaking Britain's impasse over Brexit, an issue that has bedevilled politicians for three years and ultimately defeated outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May.

The favourite on betting markets is Boris Johnson, a former foreign secretary with an instantly recognizable mop of blond hair and a knack for entertaining the public.

He says he will take Britain out of the bloc without a deal if necessary, and on Monday promised a tax cut for millions of middle- and high-income Britons.

Unlike the other candidates, Johnson hasn't given television interviews or held any public events, as his campaign team tries to avoid gaffes that could spoil his front-runner status.

For all candidates, the key issue is Brexit.

The Conservatives have been hammered in recent European and local elections as voters punish the party for failing to leave the 28-nation EU.

"The leadership I offer is based on one simple truth; without Brexit there will be no Conservative government and maybe no Conservative Party," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said as he officially launched his campaign on Monday.

Hunt backed the losing "remain" side during the 2016 EU membership referendum, but now says he will negotiate a better Brexit deal with the EU and lead the UK out of the bloc.

Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab is competing with Johnson for the support of hardcore Brexiteers.

He said on Monday that Britain had "suffered a loss of nerve" and must not delay its departure from the EU  beyond October 31.

He has even suggested he could suspend Parliament if it tried to delay or impede Brexit.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock pitches himself as the face of a younger, modernising generation in the Conservative Party.

Promising to deliver an energising blend of social liberalism and economic dynamism, he said on Monday that the Conservatives had to look beyond Brexit - a message that may be coming too soon for many in the party.

UK POOL

London, 10 June 2019

1. Various of Conservative leadership contender and former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, leaving his home, getting into car and being driven away ++PLEASE NOTE: DIGITAL BREAK UP DUE TO STILLS CAMERA FLASHES++

2. Wide of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt during the official launch of his campaign

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, UK Foreign Secretary and Conservative leadership contender:  

"The leadership I offer is based on one simple truth; without Brexit there will be no Conservative government and maybe no Conservative Party. Whoever delivers Brexit will win the next election for the Conservative Party, but without Brexit, no Conservative Prime Minister can win."

4. Hunt walking from podium to applause

5. Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab arriving at official launch of his leadership campaign

6. Cutaway journalist

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominic Raab, Former Brexit Secretary and Conservative leadership contender:

"We've suffered a loss of nerve. We need new leadership and that leadership needs to be bold, infused with some of that stubborn optimism. This is a crossroads in our history, we're on the cusp of momentous change. One thing I know, we can't just keep limping on like this without a clear sense of direction, without a clear sense of purpose. The tired approach that got us into this mess is not going to get us out of it."

8. Wide of Raab at podium

9. Matt Hancock, UK Health Secretary and Conservative leadership contender, arriving at official launch of his campaign

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Hancock, UK Health Secretary and Conservative leadership contender:

"Some people say that we need a Brexiteer, that with the need to deliver Brexit, we've got to have a Brexiteer. I think that's getting it completely the wrong way round. We need to deliver Brexit and as a party, we need to win back the voters who voted for the Brexit Party because we haven't delivered it yet."

11. Hancock leaving after speech

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday it is "entirely possible" a Brexit agreement with the European Union could be agreed within a few weeks.

Hunt responded after UK Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday he believed a divorce deal could be finalised by November 21.

Hunt stated the two main issues still to be resolved between Britain and the EU were that of the level of free trade and the Irish border.

He said: "I think if we put our minds to it, it's entirely possible that we could resolve those issues."

POOL

London - 31 October 2018

1. UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt at podium

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, UK Foreign Secretary:

(Reporter question: "Were you surprised by Dominic Raab's (UK Brexit Secretary) prediction that a Brexit deal will be finalized by the 21st of November? Or do you share that prediction?")

"Well, I think it's entirely possible that we could make progress, enough progress, by then. There are broadly two substantive outstanding issues, they're both pretty difficult ones. One of them is the degree to which our trade is frictionless in the post-Brexit environment and the other is the Northern Irish backstop. But I think if we put our minds to it, it's entirely possible that we could resolve those issues and I think that although there's a degree of doom and gloom about the Brexit talks at the moment, the fact that we've got to this stage a month before, or not quite a month but nearly a month, before the 21st of November and it does boil down to those two issues, I think is broadly encouraging."

3. Hunt leaving to applause

UK Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday said cabinet ministers had a "good, healthy discussion" on plans for Britain's departure from the EU during a meeting earlier in the day chaired by Prime Minister Theresa May.

May met at No 10 Downing Street with her divided Cabinet, with some Brexit-supporting ministers urging her to seek a looser relationship based on a bare-bones free trade agreement that would leave Britain free to strike new deals around the world.

Pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said Britain would prosper under a "Canada Plus" deal - a variation on the free trade agreement struck between Canada and the EU after years of negotiations.

May says a "Canada-style" deal would not prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Asked whether all cabinet members supported May's Chequers plan, he said the prime minister had made it clear the plan was still on the table.

The plan seeks to keep the UK in the EU single market for goods but not for services, in order to ensure free trade with the bloc and an open border between the UK's Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.

The Conservative government's blueprint for future trade ties with the bloc was rejected last week by EU leaders at a summit in Salzburg, Austria.

That left May's leadership under siege and Britain at growing risk of crashing out of the EU with no deal in place.

Amid mounting uncertainty, the British government has stepped up preparations for leaving without an agreement - though it insists that outcome is unlikely.

"We're not going to suddenly throw up our hands in despair because we've had a bump in the road in these negotiations. We'll keep calm, we'll hold our nerve and we'll get there," Raab said.

UK POOL

London - 24 September 2018

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominic Raab, UK Brexit Secretary:

"Now look, we had a really good positive discussion about our future approach to immigration, to make sure (we are a) global outward looking country, boosting productivity, but also making sure we deliver on the referendum in taking back control and have the systems in place to achieve that."

(Question: Did everybody, all the cabinet ministers around the table, continue to back Chequers after what happened in Salzburg last week?)

"We had a good, healthy discussion, the prime minister made it clear we're going to keep our calm, hold our nerve and press the EU on some of the criticisms that they've made, but also to be clear that there are no credible alternatives that the EU has come up with. So we got a hold our nerve but continue to negotiate in good faith."

(Question: And I must ask you, will that include coming up with a detailed version of the Irish backstop from the UK perspective before the October summit?)

"We certainly intend to progress the negotiations on Northern Ireland and we're going to be taking that forward shortly."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominic Raab, UK Brexit Secretary:

(Question: There's a lot of Conservative colleagues who back the idea of a more straightforward free trade agreement without the bells and whistles of Chequers, without a common rulebook. What do you say to them? They want the prime minister to chuck Chequers and focus on a Canada-style bid?

"Well, the problem is, that has been made very clear by the EU, that that wouldn't be acceptable to the EU without a backstop arrangement for Northern Ireland that keeps one part of the country in an economic regime totally different from the rest. And I'm not going to, and this government and this prime minister, is not going to accept anything which threatens our precious union. So we'll keep negotiating in good faith but of course we respect different views across the board, but we're not going to suddenly throw up our hands in despair because we've had a bump in the road in these negotiations. We'll keep calm, we'll hold our nerve and we'll get there."

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Britain should make a clean break with European Union laws and regulations after it leaves the bloc, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Wednesday, arguing that the UK will prosper after Brexit by "going global."

Johnson, who was a leader of the "leave" campaign during Britain's 2016 EU membership referendum, used a speech in London to argue for "an outward-facing, liberal and global Britain" after the UK leaves the bloc.

"We would be mad to go through this process of extrication from the EU and not to take advantage of the economic freedoms it will bring," he said.

It was the first in a series of speeches by senior ministers that the British government hopes will show unity and energy around Brexit after months of prevarication and mixed messages.

But Johnson's speech highlighted divisions within the Conservative government over what kind of relationship Britain wants with the EU after it leaves the bloc in March 2019.

Some ministers, including Treasury chief Philip Hammond, want to stay as close as possible to the bloc's borderless single market and tariff-free customs union. Others, including Johnson, want a definitive break so Britain can pursue a distinct economic policy and new trade deals.

With just over a year until Britain leaves the EU, the two factions are still fighting for supremacy in the UK government.

Johnson said Britain should not agree to accept EU rules in return for access to its markets, saying it would be "absurd if we had to obey laws over which we had no say and no vote."

He said "it's only by taking back control of our regulatory framework and our tariff schedules" that Britain can strike new trade deals with the United States and other countries.

Johnson is among the favourites to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as Conservative leader. But his prominent role in the anti-EU campaign - and an earlier role as a Brussels-based journalist writing sometimes fanciful stories about the bloc's bureaucracy - has made him unpopular with pro-EU politicians and voters.

In his speech, Johnson sought to reassure voters who wanted to remain in the EU that Brexit can be grounds for much more hope than fear.

Opponents of Brexit were unimpressed, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Johnson's claim that the EU aimed to build a European super-state was "total nonsense."

UK POOL

London - 14 February 2018

1. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"If we are going to accept laws, then we need to know who is making them, and with what motives, and we need to be able to interrogate them in our own language, and we must know how they came in authority over us and how we can remove them. And the trouble with the EU is that for all its idealism, which I acknowledge, and for all the good intentions of those who run the EU institutions, there is no demos – or at least we in the UK I don't think have ever really felt part of such a demos – however others in the EU may feel. The British people have plenty of common sympathies with the people of France, of course we do, but it is hard to deny that we also share common sympathies with plenty of non-EU people – the Americans, the Swiss, the Canadians, the Pakistanis, Thais, and that is one of the reasons why we in the UK have had such difficulty in adapting to the whole concept of EU integration. To understand why EU regulation is not always suited to the economic needs of the UK, it is vital to understand that EU law is a special type of law, unlike anything else on earth. It is not just about business convenience. It is expressly teleological. It is there to achieve a political goal. The aim is to create an overarching European state as the basis for a new sense of European political identity. British politicians, Labour and Tory, have always found that ambition very difficult. It is hard to make it cohere with our particular traditions of independent parliamentary and legal systems that go back centuries, and in spite of many sheep-like coughs of protest from the UK, the process of integration has deepened, and the corpus of EU law has grown ever vaster and more intricate, and ever more powers and competences have been handed to EU institutions, culminating in the Treaty of Lisbon."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"We would be mad to go through this process of extrication from the EU, and not to take advantage of the economic freedoms it will bring. We will stop paying ever more colossal sums to the EU every year and as the Prime Minister herself has said, that will leave us with more to spend on our domestic priorities, including, yes, the NHS. We will be able to take back control of our borders – not because I am hostile to immigrants or immigration. Far from it. We need talented people to come and make their lives in this country – doctors, scientists, the coders and programmers who are so crucial to Britain's booming tech economy. It was my proudest boast as Mayor of London that we had 400-thousand French men and women living in the British capital – high-earning and high-spending types – while only about 20-thousand UK nationals went the other way, lived in Paris. We've got to stay that way, we must remain a magnet for ambition and drive. But we also need to ask ourselves some hard questions about the impact of 20 years of uncontrolled immigration by low-skilled, low-wage workers – and what many see as the consequent suppression of wages and failure to invest properly in the skills of indigenous young people. We do not want to haul up the drawbridge; and we certainly don't want to minimise the wonderful contribution they made and certainly we don't want to deter the international students who make such a vital contribution to our Higher Education economy, 155-thousand Chinese students alone, but we want to exercise control; and if we are going to move from a low-wage, low-productivity economy to a high-wage, high productivity economy – as we must – then Brexit gives us back at least one of the levers that we need."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"It would be absurd if we were obliged to obey laws over which we have no say and no vote. As the Prime Minister said at Lancaster House remaining within the single market 'would to all intents and purposes mean not leaving the EU at all.' The British people should not have new laws affecting their everyday lives imposed from abroad, when they have no power to elect or remove those who make those laws."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"We will decide on laws, not according whether they help to build the United States of Europe, noble goal though that may be, but because we want to create the best platform for the economy to grow and to help people live their lives. And the crucial thing is that when we're running ourselves and when all these freedom are open before us, we'll no longer bbe able to blame Brussels for our woes because our problems will be our responsibility and no one else's and indeed no one should think that Brexit is some sort of economic panacea any more than it is right to treat it as an economic pandemic. On the contrary, the success of Brexit will depend on what we make of it."

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5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary:

"It's only by taking back control of our laws that UK firms and entrepreneurs will have the freedom to innovate without the risk of having to comply with some directive devised by Brussels at the urgings of some lobby group with the specific aim of holding back a UK competitor. That would be intolerable, it would be undemocratic and it would make it impossible for us to do serious free trade deals. It's only by taking back control of our regulatory framework and our tariff schedules that we can do these deals and exploit the changes in the world economy."

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The British government is considering its response to the ruling of the speaker of the House of Commons that Prime Minister Theresa May cannot keep asking lawmakers to vote on the same European Union divorce deal they have already rejected twice.

Speaker of the House John Bercow was asked about his decision to use a precedent from the 17th century for a ruling as he walked towards Parliament on Tuesday morning.

He refused to answer.

Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said Tuesday that the government needs "to look at that ruling."

May has been lobbying opponents in preparation for another vote on her plan.

"If members of parliament themselves are changing their vote that does suggest that circumstances have changed," added Barclay.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29 but following the failure of lawmakers to back her withdrawal agreement, May is expected to ask leaders at the summit for an extension to the country's departure date.

UK POOL

London - 19 March 2019

1. John Bercow, speaker of the UK's House of Commons, walking towards coffee shop, reporters shouting questions UPSOUND (English) John Bercow, Speaker of the UK's House of Commons: "Hello. Good morning. I hope you've had some tea or coffee or something or something of that sort."

(Journalist off-camera: "Are your actions going to postpone Brexit Mr Bercow?")

Bercow: "Thank you very much. It's very good of you to turn up in the morning. But as I say, do have some tea or coffee or something of that sort.)

2. Bercow walking away from coffee shop

(UPSOUND (English) Journalist off-camera: "Have you put Brexit in doubt Mr Bercow? Why did you do this Mr Bercow? How do you explain to the public what you did Mr Bercow? Using a precedent from the 17th century - why did you choose to do that Mr Bercow?")

3. Bercow crossing the street

UPSOUND (English) Journalist off-camera: "Mr Bercow, you said..."

John Bercow: "Can I say I really feel you ought to get yourself some coffee or tea. I did offer to buy you all coffee and tea but you declined my kind offer but you've obviously already drunk lots of coffee or tea. I wish you well. It's a very, very impressive bobble hat you're wearing there or perhaps not a bobble hat, but a hat of sorts. Anyway I'm sure people are so very grateful to you for showing such an interest at this time of the morning. Very good of you, very well done."

4. Bercow walking towards the House of Commons

UPSOUND (English) Journalist off-camera: "What next for Brexit, Mr Bercow?"

John Bercow: "Perhaps gentlemen, you'd allow me to proceed to work, thank you. And I wish you a good day. Thank you very much indeed."

Woman on right gate: "Traitor!"

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Barclay, Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union:

(answering the question: Has the speaker scuppered Brexit altogether here or has he made a no deal more likely?)

"Well, it's an important ruling from the speaker. He's raised the bar in terms of a third meaningful vote. And, it's important that we give that due consideration, look at that ruling. We've got a discussion at Cabinet later this morning on this. But also the speaker's made a number of rulings in this context and it's important we look at them in the round."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Barclay, Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union:

"So, there are a number of rulings that we need to look at. But, it is the case that the speaker's ruling yesterday raises the bar. And we need to see what is different as we approach the next vote. And clearly, if members of parliament themselves are changing their vote that does suggest that circumstances have changed."

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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Barclay, Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union:

"Well, the objective of the Prime Minister is to secure the deal and to have a short technical extension to allow for the ratification of that deal because that is now inevitable. In terms of any longer extension, well clearly that's only if the deal is not passed. And I think in that instance members of parliament would need to answer to your viewers as to why three years after they voted to leave, the MPs are not acting on what many of them said they would do in their manifesto. And having an extension, even a long extension, without a clarity of purpose as to what it is for, is clearly not the way forward. What we should be doing is getting behind the PM's deal because that is what the business community wants in terms of certainty and it's also what people voted for in the biggest ever vote in our country's history three years ago."

Britain must leave the EU customs union to strike new trade deals after Brexit, the country's trade minister said in a speech in London on Tuesday, widening a major fissure within British politics over future trade relations with the bloc.

UK International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said 90 percent of global growth in the next 10 to 15 years will be outside Europe, and remaining inside the tariff-free EU trade zone would limit Britain's opportunities to strike new trade deals with the world's fastest-growing economies.

"We cannot afford to be bound by the practices and the patterns of the past. We have to take the opportunities available unfettered by those who would make the rules on our behalf," he said.

But Fox was contradicted by the trade department's former top civil servant, Sir Martin Donnelly, who left his job last year, who said quitting the customs union was like "giving up a three-course meal ... for the promise of a packet of crisps."

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that 60 percent of Britain's trade is with the EU or with countries that have EU trade deals.

"The particular choice that I heard Sir Martin Donnelly outline - that was a choice between the European Union and trade opportunities elsewhere and the continuation of EU trade agreements - I don't believe that is the choice that we face," Fox said, when asked to respond to Donnelly's comments.

And commenting on Sir Martin's claim that Britain would need a Fairy Godmother to get a good EU deal Fox said that Britain needed to look "beyond where we are today."

"I understand as I say that those who have been professionally committed to those for many years would want to adhere to them. I want to think beyond where we are today, to the opportunities available to (in) the future," he told reporters.

Fox spoke a day after opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said his Labour Party would "seek to negotiate a new, comprehensive UK-EU customs union to ensure there are no tariffs with Europe."

The issue is a major fault line in UK Brexit plans. While pro-Brexit politicians such as Fox argue for leaving the customs union and the EU's single market in goods and services, others want Britain to retain close ties with the EU to soften the economic shock of leaving.

UK POOL

London, 27 February 2018

1. Wide of Britain's International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox at lectern UPSOUND (English) Reporter: "Former Permanent Sir Martin Donnelly has likened the plan that you just outlined to swapping a three course meal for a packet of crisps. What's your response to that and are you concerned there are some in the British establishment who still don't accept Brexit and want to stop it?"

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Fox, Britain's International Trade Secretary:

"First of all it's unsurprising that those who spent a lifetime working within the European Union would see moving away from the European Union as being threatening. The particular choice that I heard Sir Martin Donnelly outline - that was a choice between the European Union and trade opportunities elsewhere and the continuation of EU trade agreements - I don't believe that is the choice that we face. We are already trying to seek a full and liberal partnership with the European Union. We are already having discussions about expanding our trade agreements beyond the EU and we're also talking about rolling over the EU agreements into UK law so that we get no disruption in terms of market access at the point of exit. So it's not a choice of one or the other, and in any case I think the UK Brexit process is as we've all discovered a little more complex than a packet of Walkers. When it comes to the other issues is I hope that we'll be able to persuade our colleagues as the prime minister sets out the case that the cabinet decided at Chequers last week that they will find that persuasive and they will understand that the benefits of the approach that the prime minister will set out will actually be to the greater prosperity and security of the people of this country and I hope they will understand that the drawbacks of the customs union that I've set out today would remarkably hinder this country in terms of the future economic opportunities that might otherwise be available.

3. Wide of Fox at lectern

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Fox, Britain's International Trade Secretary UPSOUND (English) Reporter: "Dr Fox, given that your former head of department has said you'd need a Fairy Godmother to get the kind of "have cake and eat it" deal that he says you want with the European Union (reporter appears in shot) and you yourself have said that British business needs to raise its game to take advantage of Brexit. Is the greatest danger that Brexit could lead to national self harm or that there simply aren't enough true believers like you?"

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Fox, Britain's International Trade Secretary:

"I think that we need to set out an ambitious programme for the United Kingdom. It's not about sticking to the patterns of the past. And I understand as I say that those who have been professionally committed to those for many years would want to adhere to them. I want to think beyond where we are today, to the opportunities available to (in) the future. The fact, as I said at the beginning, that the IMF has pointed out that 90 percent of global growth will be outside the European continent in the next 10 to 15 years. We cannot afford to be bound by the practices and the patterns of the past. We have to take the opportunities available unfettered by those who would make the rules on our behalf."

6. Wide of Fox at lectern

The United Kingdom's foreign secretary said on Wednesday that Brexit does not mean a return to the 1950s and the days of eating "spam and cabbage and liver".

Delivering a speech in London to argue for "an outward-facing, liberal and global Britain", Boris Johnson said last June's vote to leave the bloc was "about going global".

Johnson was a leader of the "leave" campaign during Britain's 2016 EU membership referendum.

He said that were there to be a second referendum it would be "another year of turmoil and wrangling and feuding in which the whole country would be the loser," adding "let's not go there".

It was the first in a series of speeches by senior ministers that the British government hopes will show unity and energy around Brexit after months of prevarication and mixed messages.

But Johnson's speech highlighted divisions within the Conservative government over what kind of relationship Britain wants with the EU after it leaves the bloc in March 2019.

Some ministers, including Treasury chief Philip Hammond, want to stay as close as possible to the bloc's borderless single market and tariff-free customs union. Others, including Johnson, want a definitive break so Britain can pursue a distinct economic policy and new trade deals.

With just over a year until Britain leaves the EU, the two factions are still fighting for supremacy in the UK government.

Johnson is among favorites to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as Conservative leader. But his prominent role in the anti-EU campaign - and an earlier role as a Brussels-based journalist writing sometimes fanciful stories about the bloc's bureaucracy - has made him unpopular with pro-EU politicians and voters.

UK POOL

London - 14 February 2018

1. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson preparing to deliver speech

2. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"It's not good enough for us now to say to Remainers 'you lost, get over it' because we must accept that the vast majority are actuated by entirely noble sentiments, a real sense of solidarity with our European neighbours and a desire for the UK to succeed. All I am saying is that by going for Brexit we can gratify those sentiments and more."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"More people voted for Brexit than have ever voted for anything in the history of this country, and I just say in all candour if there were be a second vote I really think it would be another year of turmoil and wrangling and feuding, in which the whole country would be the loser. So let's not go there. Let's instead unite about what we all believe in; an outward-looking, liberal, global future for a confident United Kingdom because so much of this is about confidence and self-belief. We love to run ourselves down, In fact, we're Olympic gold medal winners in the national sport in the sport of national self-deprecation, and in the current bout of 'Brexchosis' we are missing the truth that it is our collective job to ensure that when the history books come to be written Brexit will be seen as just the latest way in which the British bucked the trend, took the initiative and did something that responds to the real needs and opportunities that we face in the world today."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"It's not about shutting ourselves off. It's about going global. It's not about returning to some autarchic, 1950s menu of spam and cabbage and liver, it's about continuing the astonishing revolution in tastes and styles - in the arts, music, restaurants, sports that has taken place in this country in my lifetime - not so much because of EU membership, that would be to commit the fallacy we know in the Foreign Office as post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this), but as a result of our history and our global links, our openness to people and ideas that has brought three hundred languages onto the streets of London, probably the most diverse capital on earth. In that sense Brexit is about reengaging this country with its global identity and all the energy that can flow from that, and I absolutely refuse to accept the suggestion that it is some un-British spasm of bad manners. It's not some great 'V' sign from the cliffs of Dover, it is the expression of a legitimate and natural desire for self-government of the people, by the people, for the people and that is surely not some reactionary Faragist concept."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"If we get the right deal on aviation and visa-free travel, both of which are in our mutual interest, this expansion of UK tourism will continue - not just beyond the EU but within the EU itself. We will continue to go on cheapo flights to stag parties in ancient cities where we will receive, I am sure, a warm welcome, and meet interesting people, fall in love, struggle amiably to learn the other European languages whose knowledge of which by the way has suffered a paradoxical decline during our membership of the EU. And there is no sensible reason why we should not continue to be able to retire to Spain or indeed anywhere else as we did indeed long before Spain joined what was then called the Common Market. We can continue the whirl of academic exchanges that have been a feature of European cultural life since the Middle Ages and whose speed of cross-pollination has been accelerated by the Internet as well as schemes like Horizon or Erasmus, all of which we can continue to support and whose participating scholars are certainly not confined to the EU."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English): Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary

"Our commitment to the defence of Europe is unconditional and immovable. It is made real by the 800 British troops from the 5th Battalion The Rifles I saw recently at Tapa (airbase) in Estonia who have since been relieved by the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh. Already this country is the single biggest spender in the EU both on aid and defence. Although we represent only 13 percent of the EU's population, we contribute 20 percent of defence spending and the RAF 'S giant C17 transport aircraft represent 100 percent of the heavy lift capacity of the whole of Europe, as well as 25 percent of the overseas aid budget. It makes sense for us to continue to be intimately involved in European foreign and security policy, it would be illogical not to discuss such matters as sanctions together, bearing in mind that the UK expertise provides more than half of all EU sanctions listings. We will continue to be European, both practically and psychologically, because our status as one of the great contributors to European culture and civilization and our status as one of the great guarantors of the security of Europe is simply not dependent on the Treaty of Rome as amended at Maastricht or Amsterdam or Lisbon."

7. Johnson leaving

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London - 19 February 2019

1. Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader going up to the podium

2.SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader:

"I regret that seven MPs (Members of the Parliament) decided they would no longer remain part of the Labour Party. I thank them for their work. I hope they recognise they were elected to Parliament on a manifesto. That was based around investment in the future, was based around a more equal and fairer society, was based around social justice. And it is that programme I believe that we will be able to put the electorate in the future that does have enormous support. They were elected to carry out those policies. They've decided to go somewhere else and I regret that because I want our party to be strong. I want our party to be united around the policies that we have put forward."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader:

"In the Parliament a couple weeks ago, I put down an amendment to the Prime Minister's motion from the Labour front bench, which included quite specifically the option at the end of the process of a popular vote on any deal that's reached with the European Union. I put it down in line with the policy put forward by our conference. This government is running down the clock and threatening a no-deal exit from the European Union which I think would be very dangerous and very damaging to our economy and jobs all across the country. And we've made that very clear. That is why we did get a backbench motion through parliament which said no deal should be taken off the table. And I see that as an absolute necessity that we take no-deal off the table and we negotiate intelligently with the European Union as to the way forward, which is why I'm taking a delegation to Brussels on Thursday in order to put that forward. Because the worry that people have over investment, over jobs, over supply chains and over education and so many other areas is absolutely serious at the present time. This government has had now two-and-a-half years to negotiate and apparently has no trade deals with anybody else and keeps on threatening no-deal. We will do everything we can to prevent a no-deal Brexit. We will do everything we can to protect jobs and industries across this country and to reach out to those who want to work with us."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader:

"We've developed our policies in the party over the past few years by working with our half million members - the biggest membership the Labour Party's ever had. And they are radical policies I acknowledge. They're also very popular policies on housing, on education, on environment, on economy and industrial development and we do our best to put all those policies forward. They are discussed frequently with parliamentary colleagues through select committees through interest groups within the party. And we're making huge progress."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader:

"Anyone who thinks they're not being consulted is not taking up, in my view, the opportunities that are available there and open and ready for them at all times to do that. And I'm always prepared to discuss policies with people in the party. And I do all the time."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader:

"I am proud to lead the Labour Party. I'm proud of what the Labour Party has achieved. The National Health Service, the Equalities Act, the Human Rights Act. What it's achieved in so many areas of our society. And I recognise that leading the party means you've got to take people with you. And I am determined to do that, determined to do that so that we can when an election comes, present those policies and that determination to the public as a whole."

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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader:

"We have to have a deal with the European Union that guarantees trade, guarantees investment, guarantees our rights. A no-deal Brexit would I believe be a very dangerous cliff edge. And I don't want to go over that cliff edge."

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8. Corbyn leaving the podium

STORYLINE:

The UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that he has "regret" that seven MPs left the party on Monday, "because I want our party to be strong."

Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker, Mike Gapes and Ann Coffey quit the main opposition Labour Party over its approach to issues including Brexit and anti-Semitism,

Many Labour lawmakers have been unhappy with the party's direction under leader Corbyn, a veteran socialist who took charge in 2015 with strong grass-roots backing.

Speaking at the UK National Manufacturing Conference in London, Corbyn added that "anyone (in the party) who thinks they're not being consulted is not taking up, in my view, the opportunities that are available there and open and ready for them at all times to do that."

The opposition leader also spoke about Brexit, saying that the UK "needs a deal with with the European Union that guarantees trade" and a no-deal Brexit would be a "very dangerous cliff edge."

Corbyn will be taking a delegation to Brussels on Thursday and meet with the chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May was meeting with her cabinet Tuesday, a day after Brexit talks between her government and the main opposition Labour Party resumed with little sign of progress.

Senior Conservative and Labour officials have been meeting for weeks in an attempt to find a compromise Brexit deal that can win majority support in Parliament.

Labour Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer told Monday's Guardian newspaper his party would only support a deal if was put to a referendum vote.

May has rejected a new referendum, saying voters made their decision in 2016 when they narrowly opted to leave the EU.

If the cross-party talks fail, the government says it will give Parliament votes on a series of Brexit options in an attempt to see if any has majority support.

The UK's departure from the EU, long set for March 29, has been delayed until Oct. 31 while Britain's politicians try to break the deadlock.

UK POOL

London - 14 May 2019

1. Business Secretary Greg Clark arriving for cabinet meeting, pan to Minister of State for Immigration, Caroline Nokes arriving

2. Housing Secretary James Brokenshire arriving

3. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling arriving

4. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Stephen Barclay arriving

5. Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd arriving

6. International Development Secretary, Rory Stewart arriving

7. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arriving with International Trade Secretary Liam Fox

8. Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns arriving

9. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Karen Bradley arriving

10. Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt arriving

11. Education Secretary, Damian Hinds arriving

12. Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Elizabeth Truss arriving

13. Health Secretary Matt Hancock arriving

14. Justice Secretary David Gauke arriving

15. Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright arriving

16. Home Secretary Sajid Javid arriving

Lord Kerr, the former British ambassador to the European Union who played a key role in drafting Article 50 said triggering it didn't mean Brexit was inevitable.

"As far as Brussels is concerned, as far as the treaty is concerned, this country still has free choice about whether to proceed," he said in a speech at an event hosted by the pro-EU Open Britain campaign, adding "I think the British people have the right to know this, they shouldn't be misled."

British voters, and lawmakers, remain divided over Brexit.

Prime Minister Theresa May warned Friday she would not tolerate attempts "to try to block the democratic wishes of the British people by attempting to slow down or stop our departure from the European Union."

Negotiations are ongoing for Britain's exit from the bloc which is scheduled for March 2019.

Technical talks started Thursday in Brussels for a two-day round, as the sides look to move forward on the key issues of Britain's financial commitments, the status of Irish borders and the future of citizens hit by Britain's departure.

EU leaders are increasingly frustrated with Britain's reluctance to signal how much it is willing to pay to settle its commitments to the 28-nation bloc.

The Brexit bill - estimated by the EU at somewhere around 60 billion euros (70 billion US dollars) - is a key sticking point preventing the EU from allowing talks to move on to trade and future relations.

UK POOL

London - 10 November 2017

1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord John Kerr, member of the House of Lords and drafter of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty:

"They have been very careful not to say in public that we could not take back Mrs. May's letter, during the Miller case (Gina Miller, businesswoman who took the British government to court in a successful bid to win Parliament a vote on Brexit) and at the dispatch box in both houses, government spokesmen have consistently said only that as a matter of firm policy we won't take the letter back, as a matter of firm policy. That phrase in itself confirms that we could take it back if we so wanted, and we could. The fact is that it's a political decision that has been made in this country to maintain that there can be no going back. Actually, as far as Brussels is concerned, as far as the treaty is concerned, this country still has a free choice about whether to proceed. As new facts emerge, people are entitled to take a different view and there's nothing in Article 50 to stop them. I think the British people have the right to know this. They shouldn't be misled."

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2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord John Kerr, member of the House of Lords and drafter of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty:

"I don't know why Mrs. May was in such a rush to send her letter in March before her cabinet had an agreed plan. It was odd to start the clock ticking and not start negotiating, instead calling an election and I don't know why both government and opposition now seem to discount the possibility of seeking an extension. The provision for doing so is in the treaty. Predicting how the 27 would react to such a request is actually harder than predicting how they would react to our withdrawing the letter. And if anybody refused an extension there would be no extension. I believe much would depend on our perceived motive. If we were seen as simply wanting to take a deadlocked financial negotiation into extra time, I don't think we could be sure of the necessary unanimous consent. But if, for example, we were to need time for parliament to consider a final deal or to have an election and/or to pass the legislation necessary for another referendum giving the people a final say in this process, to check that the country still wanted to leave having seen all the facts that have emerged during the negotiation process, if that was the scenario I do not see any of 27 democracies denying us the chance to consult the people. "

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord John Kerr, member of the House of Lords and drafter of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty:

"My conclusions are simple. And again they are four: The national debate about Brexit should take account of the facts, the facts that our Article 50 letter could be withdrawn without cost or difficulty - legal or political. Secondly, a standstill agreement is no panacea. Thirdly, once out there is no easy way back in and there would be a price to pay. Fourth, while still in the option of stopping the clock in order to consult the people again is always available. All four facts will still be relevant when Parliament next Autumn gets the chance as it must to assess the outcome of these negotiations. Thank you."

4. Kerr taking a seat

David Cameron will be appearing before UK Parliament as prime minister for the last time on Wednesday before handing over to successor Theresa May.

Cameron will step aside on after losing the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union. He will take on his final session of prime minister's questions before traveling to Buckingham Palace to formally tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.

Theresa May will then have the task of selecting her new cabinet which she could unveil as early as Wednesday evening.

British media have focused on whether British Chancellor George Osborne will keep his job in charge of the economy, which has been rattled since the Brexit vote.

British foreign secretary Philip Hammond as been tipped as a potential chancellor under May. During a brief encounter with a reporter on Wednesday Hammond insisted "Brexit does mean Brexit".

It's unclear whether the current Justice Secretary and leading Brexiteer Michael Gove will have a place in the new cabinet, although he has made clear he would be happy to serve under Theresa May.

David Cameron will be appearing before UK Parliament as prime minister for the last time on Wednesday before handing over to successor Theresa May.

Cameron will step aside on after losing the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union. He will take on his final session of prime minister's questions before traveling to Buckingham Palace to formally tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.

Theresa May will then have the task of selecting her new cabinet which she could unveil as early as Wednesday evening.

British media have focused on whether British Chancellor George Osborne will keep his job in charge of the economy, which has been rattled since the Brexit vote.

British foreign secretary Philip Hammond as been tipped as a potential chancellor under May. During a brief encounter with a reporter on Wednesday Hammond insisted "Brexit does mean Brexit".

It's unclear whether the current Justice Secretary and leading Brexiteer Michael Gove will have a place in the new cabinet, although he has made clear he would be happy to serve under Theresa May.

UK POOL

London - 13 July 2016

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1. British Chancellor George Osborne leaving Downing Street

2. Justice Secretary Michael Gove and former Conservative leadership contender walking down street and getting into car UPSOUND (English):

Reporter question: "Do you think there will be a place for you with Theresa May?"

Gove: "Very nice to see you think morning"

3. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond leaving home UPSOUND (English):

Reporter question: "Good morning Mr. Hammond, are you looking forward to your new job as chancellor?"

Hammond: "I'm looking forward to a good day's work today. I'm opening the Chilcot debate."

Reporter question: "Can we expect more women in the cabinet Mr. Hammond"

Hammond: "You'll have to ask the prime minister designate"

Reporter question: "The prime minister in waiting insists that Brexit means Brexit. She's got a tough job to convince many hasn't she?"

Hammond: "Brexit does mean Brexit"

4. Various aerials of London showing The Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace

UK's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the country now "has a chance to leave the European Union on 29th of March," after Prime Minister announced on Monday evening what she described as "legally binding" changes in her European Union divorce deal.

"If we grab this opportunity now we can do that and if we don't, we increase the risk of both a customs union outcome and possibly no Brexit," Hunt said on Tuesday heading for the Cabinet meeting.

The House of Commons will vote later in the day after last-minute talks with the EU produced assurances the deal couldn't be used to tie Britain to the bloc indefinitely.

May is still facing continued opposition from some lawmakers to her deal for the withdrawal from the bloc despite "legally binding" changes that she hopes will win parliamentary support for the agreement.

Attorney General Geoffrey Cox raised this concern when the agreement was presented to Parliament in December, and many lawmakers are now waiting for his legal opinion on the new provisions.

May flew to Strasbourg, France, late Monday for talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

At a news conference, they announced changes designed to overcome lawmakers' concerns about provisions designed to ensure the border between EU member Ireland and Britain's Northern Ireland remains open after Brexit.

UK POOL

London - 12 March 2019

1. UK's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt approaching reporters

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Hunt, UK's Foreign Secretary:

"This is a very important morning. These are legally significant changes. I hope parliament will see that the prime minister (Theresa May) has listened to parliament's concerns about the backstop. It really has now achieved everything that we wanted, or everything that we hoped we could achieve in very very difficult negotiations. We have a chance now to leave the European Union on 29th of March or shortly thereafter. And if we grab this opportunity tonight, we can do that and if we don't, we increase the risk both of a customs union outcome and possibly no Brexit, which I know is something none of my colleagues want."

3. Hunt walking away, UPSOUND (English) Reporter's question: "How confident are you the deal will pass?" ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++

4. UK's International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt exiting her house, UPSOUND (English) Reporter's question "Has the PM done enough to secure your support?"

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Penny Mordaunt, International Development Secretary: ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++

"My message to colleagues today is to support this deal. I think that is the only way we can really guarantee to deliver Brexit. And the public want us to get on with this, they want it done. They want us to move on to other things. So, I will be urging all colleagues to back the Prime Minister and back the deal today."

Reporter question off camera (English):  "Has she solved the backstop issue?"

6. Penny Mordaunt leaving ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++

7. UK's Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd approaching,

UPSOUND (English) Reporter's question: "How worried are you that enough MPs will support the deal?"

UPSOUND (English) Amber Rudd, Work and Pensions Secretary:

"It's a good deal. I hope they will all support it. This is good news for Britain. Thank you."

8. Rudd walks down the stairs ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++

9 . Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Health Secretary Matt Hancock arriving to 10 Downing Street

10. UK's Attorney General Geoffrey Cox arriving to 10 Downing Street

11. UK's Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd exising car upon arriving to 10 Downing Street

12. UK's Home Secretary Sajid Javid arriving to 10 Downing Street

13. UK's Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson arriving

14. UK's Environment Secretary Michael Gove arriving to Cabinet office

UPSOUND (English) Reporter's question: "Are the changes enough for the Prime Minister to win tonight?"

UPSOUND (English) Environment Secretary Michael Gove: "Yes"

15. Gove entering the building ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday his country and "the whole world" want Britain to avoid leaving the European Union without a deal.

Appearing alongside British prime minister Theresa May in Downing St, he said he fully supported her"divorce deal" with the EU.

Abe's words, during a joint news conference in London, were a boost to May, who is struggling to win support for the deal in Parliament.

Lawmakers are due to vote on the agreement next week, and all signs suggest they will reject it, adding uncertainty to Brexit less than three months before Britain is due to leave.

"We truly hope that a no-deal Brexit will be avoided. In fact, that is the wish of the whole world," Abe said.

Hinting at the economic impact from a no-deal Brexit, Abe said Japan considers Britain "the gateway to the European market".

Japanese firms employ more than 150,000 people in the U.K.

May also outlined a number of agreements that were struck between the two countries, on issues ranging from technology and old-age care to defence and security.

POOL

London - 10 January 2019

1. British Prime Minister Theresa May and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shaking hands outside 10 Downing Street and walking in

2. Wide of meeting between the two countries' delegations

3. May and Abe walking in for news conference

4. Wide of news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Theresa May, British Prime Minister:

"Today we mark the start of a significant joint programme of research and collaboration that will transform the way people live in the 21st century. British and Japanese experts working side by side will help people live independently in their home for longer, develop new treatments for chronic conditions like dementia and heart failure and ensure a cleaner world for future generations. Together we will also ensure businesses and innovators are able to use big data legally, ethically and safely in the future. This is our modern industrial strategy in action."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Theresa May, British Prime Minister:

"This year we're increasing the number of combined exercises between our defence forces on sea, land and air. And we will deploy the Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose to the region, following on from three naval visits in the past 12 months. This will help us to enforce sanctions against the DPRK as part of our joint determination to a peaceful resolution to tension in the region and to the complete denuclearisation of North Korea."

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7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister

"Upon my visit to the UK this time around I had the opportunity to have in-depth discussion with Theresa about various subjects such as Brexit. Of course, the final judgement on Brexit can be handed down only by the people of the UK but with your permission, I'd like to take this opportunity to mention a few words. We very much welcome the progress made in the withdrawal process between the UK and the EU and I would like to extend my deepest respect to the deal struck and the hard work by Theresa for the parliamentary approval of the withdrawal agreement. Japan and the UK have been building a very strong partnership, not only in the political arena but in the economic area. For Japan, the UK is the gateway to the European market. Japanese businesses have created 1,000 bases in the UK, offering more than 150,000 jobs. It is the strong will of Japan to further develop this strong partnership with the UK, to invest more into your country and to enjoy further economic growth with the UK. That is why we truly hope that a no-deal Brexit will be avoided and in fact, that is the whole wish of the whole world. Japan is in total support of the draft withdrawal agreement worked out between the EU and Prime Minister May, which provides for a transition to ensure legal stability for businesses that have invested into this country. So that's the first point I wish to make clear."

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8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister:

"On the economic front, we confirmed that we will work together to strengthen a free and open trading system in order to strengthen our economic ties post-Brexit, based on the Japan EU-EPA, which is to enter into force next month, we agreed to work towards the construction of a new economic partnership with the post-Brexit UK. I welcomed the UK's interest in joining the TPP 11. On WTO, we agreed to work even closer to promote its reform."

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Theresa May, British Prime Minister:

"The only way to avoid no deal is to have a deal and to agree a deal. And the deal that is on the table - the deal that is the deal that the EU has made clear is the only deal. There's an issue that's been raised about the backstop and we're continuing to work with the EU on that particular issue. But there is a good deal on the table, and for those who want to avoid no deal then backing the deal is the thing to do."

10. Abe and May leaving

Ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland met British First Secretary of State Damian Green in London on Monday to discuss the country's exit from the European Union.

Green, who was joined by David Davis, British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, said it was a "successful morning".

The meeting comes after ministers from across the UK have accused the Westminster government of a "power grab", arguing that Brexit legislation undermined the principles of devolution.

Green also stressed that Brexit negotiations are moving "close to an agreement on citizens' rights".

The ministers met ahead of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's meeting in Brussels, aimed at unblocking negotiations on Britain and Northern Ireland's departure from the bloc.

May, who will be joined by Davis, is expected to have discussions with European counterparts over the coming days ahead of a meeting of all EU leaders later in the week.

UK POOL

London - 16 October 2017

1. Damian Green, British First Secretary of State (British Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy), arriving for meeting

2. David Davis, British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and other cabinet ministers arriving for meeting including David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland, and Alun Cairns, Secretary of State for Wales

3. Davis and Green sitting down

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Damian Green, British First Secretary of State:

"It's the first time we've had a meeting of this multilateral committee for many months and I'm glad to say it was a successful morning. We have agreed the principles which we will use to assess how we go forward in terms of the interaction between the UK government and the devolved administrations as we set out the details of what's needed for a successful Brexit negotiation in terms of the various devolution settlements."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Damian Green, British First Secretary of State:

"We've agreed that obviously there needs to be ways in which we preserve the UK single market so we don't damage businesses in Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland, but that we fully respect the devolution settlements, that we expect this to end with more powers going to the devolved administrations than they've had under the previous arrangement and that all - the Scottish and the Welsh government as well as the UK government - have signed up to these principles; I think that's a very significant step forward."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Damian Green, British First Secretary of State:

"We are moving close to an agreement on citizens' rights and on some of the other issues that have been dominating the early talks. The matter of money is always going to be one of the most difficult ones. But obviously, you know, we keep talking and we keep making constructive suggestions."

7. Various of regional ministers sitting opposite cabinet ministers

British Business Secretary Greg Clark told a conference of British manufacturers that Honda's decision to close its Swindon plant in 2021 was a "very bitter blow".

Clark said the decision taken with little over a month until Britain leaves the European Union underlined the need for an orderly exit with a deal to provide certainty to the manufacturing sector.

"Leaving the EU without one (a deal) would, in my view, be a disaster for the whole country", he told the MAKE UK conference.

Honda's president and CEO said the decision was not related to Brexit, but was based on what made most sense for its global competitiveness in light of the need to accelerate its production of electric vehicles.

Still, experts say the uncertainty surrounding Brexit will likely have been a contributing factor in a decision like Honda's. There is still no clarity on what leaving the EU will mean. In a worst case it could lead to heavy tariffs and border checks, raising costs and slowing deliveries.

Britain's business secretary said the Brexit-related uncertainty facing UK businesses was "unacceptable."

Clark told manufacturers Tuesday that the precarious situation "needs to be brought to a conclusion."

The UK is set to leave the European Union on March 29 but has yet to seal a deal laying out divorce terms and future trade rules. The uncertainty has already led many firms to shift some operations abroad, stockpile goods or defer investment decisions.

Parliament blocked a divorce deal last month, and remains deadlocked.

Clark, a leading pro-EU voice in Cabinet, said businesses could not wait until "the last minute on March 28" for certainty.

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London - 19 February 2019

1. British Business Secretary Greg Clark on podium

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"But before I go any further I just wanted to comment on the announcement made by Honda this morning that their Swindon plant will close in 2021. Now I'm not going to pretend to an audience of manufacturers that this is anything other than a very bitter blow. And I think the thoughts of everyone in this room are with the dedicated workforce and the suppliers of what has been a phenomenally successful business and has done so much for UK manufacturing during its time here."

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3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"And so our message to everyone affected by Honda's closure is that we value intensely your skills. We completely understand the challenges that you face and we will do everything that we possibly can to support every single person in the community, in the workforce, in the supply chain to make sure that their skills and their ingenuity will find expression and application in the years ahead."

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4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"You know that every decision that you make on prices, on cashflow, on logistics and investment has real consequences for the hundreds of thousands, indeed millions of people that you employ. And I've been always quite clear that a situation in which our manufacturers don't have the certainty that they need about the terms under which over two thirds of our trade will be conducted in less than 40 days' time is unacceptable. It needs to be brought to a conclusion and without further delay."

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5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"I think there's been a national education in the realities of just in time production and integrated supply chains that the whole country has learned but very much pioneered through the evidence that you've supplied to Stephen and has been deployed through the EEF. That shaped the crucial objective of maintaining frictionless trade and that remains front and centre in our aims for the future economic partnership with the EU."

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6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"And yet as important as all this is, I can't stand here today and claim to you that all of your requirements have been resolved. To do that we need to have a deal because leaving the EU without one would in my view be a disaster for the whole country. In the survey that EEF/Make UK published just last week, two thirds of manufacturing employers said that no deal would result immediately in price increases on products, whilst almost one third of manufacturers said that no deal has implications for jobs. Now some people when you voice these concerns describe this as Project Fear. But for me as knowing the familiarity you have with the reality of running manufacturing operations and employing millions of people around the UK, I think it is better described as Project Reality."

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7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"The reality is that yesterday the first freighter That will arrive after the 29th of March set off from Felixstowe bound for Japan, with no clarity on the terms under which its cargo will be admitted when it reaches its destination. That is, I know, unacceptable to you and it's unacceptable to me and for me it shows how absolutely essential it is to conclude the arrangements with a deal in the weeks ahead and not on the the last minute on the 28th of March but as soon as possible because no one should regard waiting to the last moment when you are making decisions now that have consequences for many weeks and months ahead, as acceptable."

8. Clark seated

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Clark, British Business Secretary:

"I can't say the exact proportion Andrew but what I can tell you is unfortunately not all of the FTA's (Free Trade Agreements) and I might mention the Japan and Korean ones that are important, are expected to be concluded in that time. That is one of the reasons why I think it is so important that we should not leave without a deal that would mean that those agreements did not roll over, but it reinforces the absolute requirement that we should leave with a deal and that we should do so quickly, so that we don't have the jeopardy of those ships currently on the water not knowing how they'll be treated when they arrive."

10. Clark leaving

UK Prime Minister Theresa May was starting a frantic two-week race on Monday to convince the British public, and a sceptical Parliament, to back the Brexit deal she has struck with the European Union.

May was gathering her Cabinet for a meeting hours after returning from Brussels with the divorce agreement approved by the 27 other EU leaders.

She planned to address lawmakers in the House of Commons later in the day.

Cabinet members were seen leaving Number 10 on Monday afternoon, but all were reluctant to divulge any information to to the waiting media.

The deal needs to be approved by Parliament, but scores of legislators - from both the opposition and May's governing Conservative Party - say they will oppose it.

May aims to convince them that the deal "honours the referendum" in 2016 that saw Britain vote to leave the EU.

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London - 26 November 2018

1. Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd exiting 10 Downing Street

2. Energy Minister Claire Perry followed by Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright and Education Secretary Damian Hinds, leaving 10 Downing Street

3. Commons leader Andrea Leadsom leaving 10 Downing Street and getting into car

4. Various of Scottish Secretary David Mundell leaving 10 Downing Street with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss

5. Health Secretary Matt Hancock leaving 10 Downing Street

6. UK Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay departs followed by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire

7. Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt exits 10 Downing Street and gets into car, car drives away

8. Various of Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns walking out of Downing Street

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alun Cairns, Secretary of State for Wales:

"Well, I'm always optimistic and it was a good cabinet meeting where colleagues were coming together and it's now time for the country to come together to back this deal. It's a good deal in the interests of every part of the United Kingdom, it's in the interests of business and it will give us that all-important smooth exit from the European Union."

10. Cairns walking away

11. Various of Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright walking out of Downing Street, pursued by media

UPSOUND: (English) Jeremy Wright "I'm not going to discuss what was said in cabinet, but it was a very good discussion."

(Reporter: Are you feeling positive?)

"I'm always feeling positive.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May held a drinks reception at 10 Downing Street on Monday evening in a bid to try and bolster support for her Brexit deal among members of her own Conservative party.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his predecessor at the Foreign Office, Boris Johnson, were among the guests in attendance.

May has been furiously trying to get the deal through Parliament but had to call off a vote on it last month since she was facing certain defeat. The vote is now expected for next week.

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London - 7 January 2019

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1. Iain Duncan Smith, Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, arriving

2. UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arriving ++MUTE FROM SOURCE++

3. Conservative MP Owen Paterson and Democratic Unionist Party MPs Nigel Dodds and Sammy Wilson departing Downing Street

4. Hunt departing Downing Street

5. UK Secretary of State for Housing James Brokenshire departing

6. Various of Duncan Smith departing via front gates, UPSOUND (English): "We are all talking about it at the moment, so it hasn't been presented, we don't know what has been produced in terms of any extra arrangements from the EU, so we'll wait and see."

7. MP James Cleverly, who is also Deputy Chairman of the Conservative party, arriving at Downing Street via front gates, UPSOUND (English) Reporter, off-camera: "Does the Prime Minister have your support?" Cleverly: "Yeah, absolutely, absolutely."

8. Minister of State Rory Stewart arriving at Downing Street via front gates, UPSOUND (English) Reporter, off-camera: "What does the prime minister have to do to get your backing this evening then?"; Stewart: "I support the Prime Minister very, very strongly, so she doesn't need to do anything to get my backing"; Reporter, off-camera: "What does she have to do to get the rest of the party on side though?"; Stewart: "I think a lot of the conversation has to be around the Northern Irish backstop."

9. Conservative MP Theresa Villiers departing Downing Street via front gates

10. Dodds departing Downing Street via front gates

11. Paterson departs Downing Street via front gates

12. Conservative MP Mark Francois departs downing street via front gates, UPSOUND (English): "Wine was nice. I think there are some people wavering, but I think they are probably at Number 10, not on the back benches unfortunately." Reporter: "You think she might back no deal?" Francois: "I hope so, that's the best deal now. No deal, no problem, yeah absolutely." Reporter: "And you think the Prime Minister might back no deal?" Francois: "I think if... when the vote goes down I think that is the obvious choice."

13. Conservative MP and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson departs Downing Street via front gates

14. Various of Johnson walking surrounded by media, UPSOUND (English): "I'm afraid you misunderstood the purpose of the evening. It was not to... there wasn't even a speech, there were no speeches, there was no discussion of any kind, there was no attempt to persuade anybody. And I don't really think that things have really changed." Reporter: "Were there cheese and onion crisps?" Johnson: "There were no cheese and onion crisps. And indeed I make one confident prediction: under any circumstances, this country will be amply provided for not only with Mars bars, not only with drinking water, but also with cheese and onion crisps."

15. Johnson enters building

British Prime Minister Theresa May and her cabinet ministers were gathering in London on Wednesday to discuss a draft divorce deal with the European Union.

May will try to persuade her divided Cabinet that they must back the agreement or plunge the UK into political and economic uncertainty.

May called a special cabinet meeting after negotiators from Britain and the European Union broke a months-long logjam and reached agreement on divorce terms, including a plan to keep the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland open after Brexit.

The meeting is expected to start at  2 p.m. (1400GMT) at 10 Downing Street.

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London - 14 November 2018

1. UK Prime Minister Theresa May arriving at 10 Downing Street

2. Claire Perry, Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth, arriving at 10 Downing Street

3. Greg Clark; Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; arriving at 10 Downing Street

4. Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State for International Development and Minister for Women and Equalities, arriving at 10 Downing Street

5. Julian Smith, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) arriving at 10 Downing Street

6. Michael Gove; Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; arriving at 10 Downing Street ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++

7. James Brokenshire; Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government; arriving at 10 Downing Street

8. Chris Grayling, Secretary of State for Transport; and Liam Fox (holding red folder), Secretary of State for International Trade; arriving at 10 Downing Street

9. David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland, arriving at 10 Downing Street