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In a letter to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conseravative Party's powerful 1922 Committee, Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire said the party had to deliver Brexit or face the prospect of being punished at the polls at the next general election.

He wrote: "All we have asked from the Prime Minister is that she sticks to what she has promised on repeated occasions when she declared that "Brexit means Brexit and pledged to take back control of our money, borders and laws.

"But now it appears those promises are all a pretence and a charade intended to dupe the electrorate, which is an insult to their intelligence.