Westminster today - as it happened: Theresa May moves to shut down Cabinet revolt
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Theresa May has faced down a revolt over the NHS from Boris Johnson after his allies briefed newspapers that he would lobby the Prime Minister for a £100m-a-week funding increase for the health service.
The Prime Minister and other members of her top team made clear to the Foreign Secretary that policy discussions should take place behind closed doors, during a weekly Cabinet meeting.
Ms May also faced anger from pro-Brexit Tories after senior EU figures told The Independent that the UK has already “agreed in principle” to a Norway-style transition deal, which accepts all EU rules without the power to shape them.
Ukip’s Henry Bolton battled on after mass resignations and a vote of no confidence from his party’s ruling body. The under-fire leader refused to resign after it emerged that his former girlfriend Jo Marney had sent racist texts about Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle.
Theresa May has reprimanded Boris Johnson for briefing newspapers that he would be use this morning's Cabinet meeting to demand more money for the NHS.
The Prime Minister's spokesman said that, at the meeting, “the Prime Minister and a large number of cabinet ministers made the point that cabinet discussions should take place in private".
More from Joe Watts on Theresa May's response to Boris Johnson's NHS demands here:
Esther McVey, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is currently responding to an urgent question on the High Court ruling on Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Judges decided that cuts to payments for disabled people were "blatantly discriminatory" and therefore illegal.
Ms McVey announced last week that the Government would not be appealing against the decision. Accused of sneaking the annoucement out on a Friday, the Work and Pensions Secretary just told MPs: "I am not the kind of person who sneaks anything out."
An influential European Parliament committee has backed a plan that would shrink the size of the elected body– and also potentially see some MEPs elected by voters across Europe instead of one designated country.
Britain currently elects 73 MEPs to the 751-member parliament, and the country’s impending departure from the bloc has left Brussels wondering what should be done with the seats after Brexit.
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Earlier, Justice Secretary David Gauke said the "most stringent" licensing conditions must be placed on John Worboys when he is released from prison, amid calls for the black-cab rapist to be kept out of Greater London.
Speaking in the Commons, Mr Gauke said that while the "precise conditions" are decided at an "operational level", he had written to the authorities "stressing the needs to ensure that the concerns of victims are put at the heart of this process".
His comments came after it emerged that Worboys was transferred from HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire to HMP Belmarsh, south-east London, at the weekend.
Tory MP Zac Goldsmith said his proposed release had "absolutely horrified and terrified his many, many victims".
Mr Gauke replied: "First of all when it comes to the precise conditions those are operational matters that are decided at an operational level.
"But let me reassure him that nearly a fortnight ago I wrote to the relevant authorities stressing the needs to ensure that the concerns of victims are put at the heart of this process, and ensuring that the most stringent measures are taken in place in terms of the conditions."
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has been hailed as a hero for helping to save a man who suffered a cardiac arrest.
The politician rushed to get a defibrillator and called 999 after a 73-year-old collapsed outside Manchester Town Hall earlier this month. Thanks to Mr Burnham and an army reservist who delivered CPR, the man - who has not been named - is now making a good recovery.
Mr Burnham told the Manchester Evening News: “I can’t describe how wonderful it was to hear from the man’s wife a few days after telling me that he was making a recovery.
“It makes me think that we should have public defibrillators in communities across Greater Manchester and an open public register of them. As Mayor, I intend to work to make that happen - they really do save lives.”
Boris Johnson has been accused of putting a two-state solution in the Middle East at fresh risk after suggesting Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital is a “moment of opportunity” for peace.
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Health and Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt is undergoing a grilling from MPs on the Commons Health Committee on the impact of Brexit on patients.
Good timing, especially with Boris Johnson's intervention over NHS spending in this morning's Cabinet meeting, where he reportedly demanded £100m-a-week for the health service.
Health minister Lord O'Shaughnessy tells the committee he is "not in a position" to put a figure on how much ministers are spending on Brexit contingency plans.
Jeremy Hunt also makes an interesting point that the Government wants to secure a transition period by the end of March but "it may take a little longer than that".
Business leaders have said that March should be the absolute deadline for finalising the transition, to give firms time to plan.
Labour's Jess Phillips is the sweariest MP on Twitter, followed by the SNP's Angus MacNeil, according to a study in the i newspaper.
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