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Steve Baker, the ERG deputy chairman, has also been giving interviews. He says it is "very difficult" to see how there won't be 48 Tory MPs demanding a no confidence vote in Theresa May if she loses the "meaningful vote". But he does now know if the 48 letters will go in beforehand, he says.

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Here are the key quotes from Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Tory leadership. Asked why the necessary 48 letters to force a confidence vote had not materialised, he said:

Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace. We will see what letters come in due time.

Do 47 want to come with me or not? I may find that they don't or they don't do it today but when we get the meaningful vote. That's a decision for them.

What we are seeing from this government is a deliberate decision not to deliver a proper Brexit. We have a government led by remainers who want to keep us tied into the EU as tightly as possible.