Theresa May is expected to create around 10 new Conservative peers in an attempt to force the EU withdrawal bill through the House of Lords without further government defeats.
After campaigning to bring back control to Westminster in the Brexit campaign, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has gone on the offensive against the upper house because they did not vote with the government over the controversial EU Withdrawal Bill.
A leading figure on the campaign to leave the European Union has been recorded comparing the tactics the Leave.EU campaign used to keep immigration as the leading argument in the debate to the fear tactics that helped the Nazis sweep to power in 1930s Germany.
The Canadian data firm that helped Vote Leave win the 2016 Brexit vote has been suspended by Facebook over reports it handled personal data allegedly looted from the social network by Cambridge Analytica.
The prime minister has once again refused to say whether she had changed her mind after the Brexit debate in 2016 and now supported the UK leaving the EU, despite leading the government in its hard-line approach.