Boris Johnson is facing the House of Commons for the first time since his Commons vote defeat last night.
The Prime Minister is currently fielding a bruising questioning – just hours after rebels voted to seize control of the Government.
In retaliation, Mr Johnson then brutally sacked 21 Conservative MPs after they voted against his Tory government.
The Government lost the vote by a majority of 27 and MPs will now have the opportunity today to pass legislation that would effectively take no-deal off the table.
A general election also looms, after the PM confirmed he would seek a public vote as he accused opposition parties and Tory rebels of wrecking his chances of a deal with Brussels.
Mr Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn clashed over Brexit in angry scenes that saw the Prime Minister swear.
The PM began PMQs by calling the legislation a wretched surrender bill and still vowed that Brexit would happen on October 31.
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He accused rebels, led by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, that their plan to legislate to stop no-deal would lead to more dither and delay.
He said: We will get a deal by the summit on October 17 and take this country out of the EU and get Brexit done.
What his surrender bill would do is to wreck any chance of the talks and we dont know what his strategy is at all.
Mr Johnson goaded his opponent saying it was a case of What do we want? Dither and delay.
When do we want it? We dont know.
In retaliation, Mr Corbyn repeatedly asked him what negotiations he had been doing with the EU to change the Irish backstop – the main sticking point stopping a divorce deal being done.
He said talk of any progress was a sham and Mr Johnson was simply trying to run down the clock and force a no-deal.
He pointed out that Mr Johnson had lost his first vote in the House of Commons and the UK is less than 60 days away from our scheduled exit from the bloc.
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Mr Corbyn asked the PM to reveal details of what he knew about food and medicine shortages that official government papers have predicted in the wake of a no-deal Brexit.
The Labour leader added: I can see why hes desperate to avoid scrutiny – he has no plan to get a new deal, no authority and no majority.
If the Prime Minister does to the country what he has done to his party in the last 24 hours, I think a lot of people have a great deal to fear from his incompetence, his vacillation and his refusal to publish known facts that are known toRead More – Source
