Brexit today - LIVE: Theresa May and senior ministers arrive at Chequers for 'war cabinet' meeting to decide on UK's future relationship with EU

Prime Minister hopes to finally force top Tories to agree Government's aims for future relationship with EU

Theresa May hopes an 'away day' at Chequers will help bring her warring cabinet ministers together (Getty)

Theresa May is hosting ten of her most senior cabinet ministers at Chequers this afternoon as they attempt to reach an agreement on the UK's future relationship with the EU.

It follows two meetings of the 'Brexit war cabinet' earlier this month that failed to reach a compromise. Pro-EU ministers such as Philip Hammond and Amber Rudd have clashed with Brexiteers like Boris Johnson and Liam Fox about how close a relationship the UK should maintain with Europe.

Today's meeting is designed to agree a shared position before Theresa May gives a major speech on Brexit later next week. Jeremy Corbyn will also give a speech on the issue on Monday, with speculation he will soften Labour's stance - possibly with a pledge to keep the UK in the customs union.

Before senior ministers head to Chequers, Robin Walker, the Brexit minister, and Sir Tim Barrow, the UK's representative to the EU, were grilled by Parliament's European Scrutiny Committee, while Liam Fox faced an hour of questions from MPs in the Commons chamber.

[22 February 2018 12:35 · Kristin Hugo]

The SNP's Pete Wishart has used Business Questions in the Commons to make fun of David Davis's claim earlier this week that Brexit will not result in a "Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction".

The SNP MP said the Government's Brexit policy actually has more in common with The Matrix films.

"We have a bunch of clueless fantasists living in an alternative world believing they can impose their version of reality on everyone else," he says. "It couldn't be more apt than that."

Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the House, replies that Brexit is less Max Max and more like Love Actually...

[22 February 2018 12:53 · Kristin Hugo]

It's all going on at Business Questions... Labour MP Derek Twigg requests the Government call "an urgent debate" on potholes.

Andrea Leadsom replies: "The Government has invested significant sums in potholes."

Presumably the bank was shut...

[22 February 2018 13:16 · Kristin Hugo]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has criticised a Whitehall document laying out the UK's plan for a Brexit transition period as "a poor piece of work".

The arch Brexiteer insisted any transition much be time-limited. Full story here: