Move would give lawmakers just 17 days to try and thwart Boris Johnson's plan to leave EU; opposition expresses fury

Sadiq Khan says Westminster City Council's green-lighting of memorial outside Parliament would 'make a powerful national statement'

Winner of Conservative Party primary, widely predicted to be pro-Brexit populist Boris Johnson, will face opposition in parliament and his own party to leaving EU without a deal

With scarcely three months to go till Brexit, no deal on the table and skepticism in both Brussels and Westminster, next premier faces choppy political waters

After 200 ex-staffers suggest Jeremy Corbyn might need to step down, 60 members of House of Lords accuse him of presiding over 'most shaming period in Labour's history'

Johnson, flamboyant former foreign secretary and ex-London mayor, leads among 313 Conservative lawmakers with 160 votes to Hunt's 77 after five rounds

Move comes as PM May's latest proposal is widely rejected and she is reportedly to be planning to resign as early as Friday