Disastrous know they will brexit is unprecedented, anti democratic and unconstitutional. Among those opposing the government are some senior conservative mps who want a further delay in the Brexit Process and say they wont be swayed by pressure from downing street. I think we will have the numbers, many colleagues have been incensed by some of the actions over the last week or so. Adding to the governments troubles the conservative mp philip lee has defected to the lib dems leaving the government with no working majority. Well have the latest from westminster on a very busy day. Quite a noisy day as well well be talking to one of the leading conservatives opposing the government tonight and well be looking at how the next few days might unfold. Stay with us for bbc news at 5pm. Its 5 oclock. Were live at westminster on the day Parliament Reconvenes after the summer break for a hugely significant week in the Brexit Process. A short while ago the conservative mp philip lee dealt a blow to the Prime Minister when he announced he was leaving the party tojoin the lib dems leaving the government with no working majority. Later today the house of commons will debate a bill designed to prevent a no deal brexit. The former conservative chancellor Philip Hammond said he thought there was enough support for the bill which delays the Brexit Process despite the Prime Ministers Firm Opposition to it. Downing street has warned that borisjohnson would push for a general election on the 14th october if the government is defeated. The Prime Minister has already been on his feet in the commons reporting on the recent g7 summit and the legislative challenge is expected to start at around 6. 30 this evening. Our chief Political Correspondent vicky young is with me. A day of rapidly moving events. With me on the green and doing battle with the noise behind me, vicky young. I want to start this evening talking about the Parliamentary Business later. A very significant moment, a conservative mpjoining the liberal democrats very visibly during the Prime Minister was mike statement leaving borisjohnson with no working majority. We can overstate these things but how significant is that move . It is a Huge Movement because it means he doesnt have a working majority in the house of commons. On the other hand, lets face it, he hasnt really had a working majority because of the rebels including philip lee but the fact he chose to do it this way with the tv cameras on him as the Prime Minister got up to speak is heaven trying to make a broad point here, and i think his letter is interesting because he talked about the party he joined in 1992 and he says, it is not the same party as the one i am leaving, because he said it was a broad church and know it has a narrow faction and this chimes today with whatJustine Greening faction and this chimes today with what Justine Greening was faction and this chimes today with whatJustine Greening was saying. People like philip lee, because of brexit, yes, but because he also known no longer feels this party is the party for him and Justine Greening feels the same saying she is not standing at the next general election. That is significant with some tories saying good riddance, these people are making it incredibly difficult for brexit and they are trying to stop it happening, it is not democratic so good job they are moving on. The wording was strong, he said the party has moved away from me and has become a faction and just to remind viewers just joining become a faction and just to remind viewersjustjoining us, we see philip lee setting beside the liberal democrat leader, he says the party has increasingly become infected, very strong words, with the twin diseases of populism and english nationalism. He is talking about his former party, the conservative party. Difficult to imaginea conservative party. Difficult to imagine a more strongly worded letter at this stage. And why it is important is that if we are heading towards a general election, this is a problem for borisjohnson if voters feel the same way. If conservative voters feel the same way as justice cleaning and thanks to the party has changed, if conservative voters, who are maybe not on the brexit side of the party, if they feel the same way that could bea if they feel the same way that could be a problem at the ballot box for borisjohnson. He will be aiming to get voters back but what about voters on the other side to it seems in parliament are leaving his party. Lets pause for a second because as we mentioned mr lee crossed the floor while the Prime Minister was delivering the statement because the Prime Minister has been addressing mps following the recent g7 summit and he said any further extension of the brexit deadline would surrender control, he used the word surrender, of the process to the eu. Jeremy corbyn didnt like the word surrender, didnt like the language used. He said his efforts to force through a know they brexit what an on british democracy so lets listen to some of the exchanges. We promised the people we would get brexit done. We promise to select the results of the referendum and we must do so now. Enough is enough, the country wants this done and they wa nt the country wants this done and they want the referendum respected. We are negotiating a deal and although lam are negotiating a deal and although i am confident. Though i am confident of getting a deal, we believe by october 31 in all circumstances. There will be no further pointless delay. This house has never before voted to force the Prime Minister to surrender such a crucial decision to the discretion of our friends and neighbours overseas, because what this bill would mean is that unless we agree to the terms of her friends and partners, they would be able to keep us partners, they would be able to keep us in the eu for as long as they wa nt us in the eu for as long as they want and on their terms. I urge therefore this house to reject the spell tonight so that we can get the right deal for our country, deliver brexit and take the whole country forward and i commend the statement to the house. The attack on our democracy in order to force through a disastrous no deal brexit is unprecedented, anti democratic and unconstitutional. Labour will do all we can to protect her industry, protect our democracy, protect our people against this dangerous and reckless government. I condemn the rhetoric to the Prime Minister used when he talked about a surrender bill. I hope he will reflect on his use of language. I really do hope he will reflect on his use of language. We are not surrendering because we are at war with europe. They are surely our partners. If anything, it isa no surely our partners. If anything, it is a no deal except that would mean surrendering our industry, ourjobs, surrendering our industry, ourjobs, surrendering our industry, ourjobs, surrendering our standards and protections and a trade deal with donald trump in the united states. So some of the exchanges in the house of commons earlier today. The former minister guto bebb is with me, conservative mp for aberconwy in north wales, whos preparing to vote for the bill, and against the government this evening. That is still your position . Absolutely. We have to take the option of no deal brexit of the table and the bill is very moderate and gives the Prime Minister time to avoid it, but the damage that no deal would do to this country, to the Farming Community is that i represent, for example, is so significant that i am duty bound to act. How much pressure have you come underfrom government act. How much pressure have you come under from government sources and this process . I thinki am under from government sources and this process . I think i am a lost cause to the government so i havent been under much pressure but some of the people i am aware who are thinking of voting what is this evening are under immense pressure because in effect they have been told they will lose the conservative whip and in a general election they would not be able to stand, so an effect Boris Johnson would not be able to stand, so an effect borisjohnson is threatening them with losing theirjob simply by doing what he did numerous times when theresa may was Prime Minister, which was to vote against the conservative work. It is quite hypocritical of the Prime Minister to be perfectly frank. When we had the Prime Minister saying that there is absolutely no way in which he is going to go back to the eu and as foran going to go back to the eu and as for an extension of the article 50 process , for an extension of the article 50 process, he is just for an extension of the article 50 process, he isjust not for an extension of the article 50 process, he is just not going to do that, how do we square that with what might happen the next 2a hours . There are two things to be said, if this legislation passes it becomes the law of this country that he has to seek that extension unless he gets a deal. The legislation also says clearly that if parliament votes to support no deal then again he does not have to seek that extension so in other words the Prime Minister is given the option of getting a deal are persuading the house of commons to vote for no deal. That is entirely democratic. At he still refuses to go to europe he is putting himself above the law and no british Prime Minister is above the law. If he refuses to go to brussels he would have to resign. What is your view of the prospect of a general election, we mention the date some government sources were saying, 14th october, what is your position on that . Quite simply i do not trust as Prime Minister and that isa not trust as Prime Minister and that is a terrible thing to say about the Prime Minister of this country but he said clearly he would not Prorogue Parliament and he is now and he said he would not seek a general election and he is now seeking one and i think he could seeking one and i think he could seek the election but then change the date. Number ten has said that is not what they will do. And they also said they would not Prorogue Parliament but that is exactly what they do, so i am afraid the Political Capital of this Prime Minister is being spent because time and time again what he says is contradicted by what he does. What is your hunch, talking to colleagues here, about what is likely to happen in the vote later tonight . |j here, about what is likely to happen in the vote later tonight . I can only speak on behalf of the conservative side of the equation but my view is there are sufficient conservative colleagues able to vote for this to proceed tomorrow but it all depends on what the other opposition parties do as well, and i cannot speak on behalf of the labour party or the Scottish National party or other parties. We are with the Prime Minister be at this goes through, if your side wins, if he then brings in attempt forward to get a general election and that fails, where does that leave the Prime Minister . The Prime Minister can get it if he brings forward the proposition that says he either extends the article 50 period so we can have a general election, but effort exa m ple can have a general election, but effort example the Prime Minister loses that general election that is only right and proper that a successful campaign, whether it is labour or liberal democrat, then has the right to negotiate with europe. So if you want is a general election and makes it a general election about brexit, we cannot have a no deal brexit happening during the course of that, so my view is that at the Prime Minister wants a general election he has to extend that article 50 process. Just the final point, you arent colleagues like you have been called all kinds of things in recent weeks and months, but when you hear words like traitor and a surrender and that kind of language, it must have some effect on your . I find it absolutely appalling that a Prime Minister of this country, a Prime Minister who was a member of parliament whenjo cox was murdered as willing to use language like collaborators and traitors, knowing full well the circumstances we are facing in this country. Putting that in context, there is a rumour, only a rumour, that Winston Churchills grandson might be voting against the government this evening. As Boris Johnson genuinely calling the grandson of Winston Churchill a traitor . We will see, thank you for joining me. The conservative mp guto bebb preparing to vote against the government tonight. A quick look inside the chamber of commons because it is now another statement taking place and here we have michael gove, one of the Prime Ministers Close Associates talking about preparations for no deal brexit. That is what we call the yellowhammer document brought forward and some controversy and review than some controversy in recent days, and michael gove is currently going through the motions and trying to defend what has gone on with that, but also we will catch up on with that, but also we will catch up with what has been going on in the commons in the statement in just a few moments, because this will be followed by another statement on education policy and then another motion to do with a ten minute rule bill were somebody tries to get any legislation on the issue of climate change, and all of that before we get to the business we are talking about here, which is all about the motion ahead of mps tonight on trying to prevent no deal. Lets get back here to outside the houses of parliament because with me as andy mcdonald. Labour mp and shadow secretary of state for transport. Good to have us house. What is your reading of things right now . We from the Prime Minister last night and in the Prime Minister last night and in the house today, and Jeremy Corbyn has made his view clear. What is your reading of where we are right now . My reading as we have a Prime MinisterWhose Authority is just ebbing away by the hour. You saw on the benches behind him today, the look of dismay across those benches, theresa may, the father of the house on Philip Hammond, it wasnt a good look and a pretty poor performance on his part and he failed to answer fundamental questions about the progress he says he has made and also failed to assure as he would publish the assessments of the risk of no deal brexit. So he has any wea k of no deal brexit. So he has any weak position at the moment and i fully expect the application to succeed tonight and the bill to succeed tonight and the bill to succeed tomorrow. So youre confident on both of those counts. Where would that leave the government . In a difficult position because it is all about making sure no deal brexit does not happen and of course our apprehension is that this is the very objective of this Prime Minister. There has been little sign of any meaningful progress towards a deal, as he suggested he is trying to achieve, and hanging over us as the threat of and hanging over us as the threat of a general election, but we know what thatis a general election, but we know what that is about. It is a mere ruse. It is simply another way of him winding the clock down to 31st october because we dont trust him. You hear it consistently not just from because we dont trust him. You hear it consistently notjust from labour mps but from conservative mps, who arejust mps but from conservative mps, who are just totally disillusioned. They dont trust him to hold to any such indication of promise and we could end up with a general election after having crashed out. This is a crucial point, because when viewers hearJeremy Corbyn saying we would welcome an election, i think it is important to be clear, that is not under any circumstances. It is not an election if you say you cannot trust the Prime Minister not to move the date. So it could be the case he comes forward and says i want an election that you would then have to explain why labour and the circumstances would not want it . And we will do exactly that because the principal focus has to be to avoid a damaging no deal brexit. If he does that, we are really and a very difficult position as a country, so thatis difficult position as a country, so that is the focus and that is why the sequencing has to be right. We are not going to fall into the trap of allowing him to corral us into an election that gets exactly what he wa nts, election that gets exactly what he wants, which i