Conservative Stephen Phillips has quit as a Lincolnshire MP over "irreconcilable policy differences" with the government over Brexit. The MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham since 2010, he won the seat with a majority of more than 20,000 last year.
The Prime Minister is expected to speak to president of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker today to say she intends to stick to her March 2017 deadline for triggering Article 50. Nick Clegg is the former deputy prime minister and prominent Remain supporter, and Theresa Villiers is the former Northern Ireland secretary and prominent Leave supporter. They were interviewed by John Humphries on the Today programme here at 8.10am
An appeal by Gladman Homes to build houses on land west of Melksham was dismissed by Planning Inspector Karen Ridge. The key factor in the appeal was whether Wiltshire Council's inability to provide a five year housing land supply in the North & West Wiltshire Area outweighed the fact that the site was in the open countryside where large scale development would not normally be permitted.
Liberal Democrats in Surrey have written to the Equality & Human Rights Commission asking them to investigate the Tory council's policy that has increased adult social care charges for disabled residents by over one million pounds a year.
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