At least 17 Tory MPs say they will vote to stop no-deal Brexit despite government pressureRebel Conservatives were defiant on Monday night about Boris Johnson’s threats of deselection and an early general election, with at least 17 Conservative MPs saying privately or publicly that they have not been deterred from...

Muddled, half-arsed, this was up there with any of May’s more pointless statements“Let’s stick together,” said Boris Johnson, oblivious to the irony of threatening to sling 20 MPs out of his own party for doing what he had repeatedly done only months before. As impromptu statements outside Downing Street go,...