May to meet 1922 Committee chiefs next week to discuss her future – as it happened

• Theresa May has agreed to meet the executive of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee next week to discuss her future. (See 5.24pm.) These are the famous “men in grey suits” (now including women, of course) credited, in Tory folklore, with having the power to tell a leader it’s time to go. Earlier Downing Street said May would not be setting out a new timetable for her departure. In an interview with Sky George Osborne, who was sacked as chancellor by May and who now edits the Evening Standard, said it was now time for the cabinet to mobilise and oust May. He said:

The Conservative party in 2017 didn’t want to confront the reality. Eventually the party has to confront the truth. It needs a new leader, a new agenda, it needs to win over supporters who have disappeared and make an appeal to urban, metropolitan Britain that has turned its back on the Conservatives.

• Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has told May in a speech that she will be failing to act like Margaret Thatcher if she allows the Chinese, state-controlled company Huawei to have a role in building the UK’s 5G infrastructure network. (See 5.43pm.)

• Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, has told a committee of MPs and peers that there has been a “very considerable rise” in threats to MPs in the ast year. At the same hearing, Neil Basu, a Met assistant commissioner, said Brexit had been “a huge driver” of the rise in intimidation aimed at MPs. There was a “relatively even” split between people being targeted because they were pro-Brexit and because they were anti-Brexit, he said. These are from the BBC’s Danny Shaw.

BREAKING: Met Commissioner Cressida Dick says threats to MPs at "unprecedented" levels. Crimes reported by MPs more than doubled from 2017 to 2018 from 151 to 342 & set to increase further: MPs & staff reported 152 crimes and over 600 incidents between Jan and April this year.

— Danny Shaw (@DannyShawBBC) May 8, 2019

Cressida Dick told Joint Human Rights Cttee murder of Jo Cox and attacks on others in public life had contributed to "extraordinary set of circumstances" with "polarised opinion" having "big impact"; women and BME communities were being disproportionately targeted, she said.

— Danny Shaw (@DannyShawBBC) May 8, 2019

• The design of a new House of Commons temporary chamber, which will be used while the Palace of Westminster undergoes a multi-billion pound restoration, has been unveiled for the first time as MPs prepare to vote on the next steps of the project.

• The government has signed a Brexit side-deal with Ireland to guarantee Irish and British citizens retain special rights in each others countries in the event of no deal.

• A failure by successive governments to break “London-centric decision-making” led to the Brexit vote and “the political mess the country is now in”, according to Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester.

• The parliamentary expenses watchdog tried to cover up data showing 377 MPs, including nine cabinet ministers, have had their credit cards suspended for wrong, incomplete or late claims.

• MPs have approved without a division a Labour motion saying the government should maintain free TV licences for the over-75s for the duration of this parliament “by ensuring sufficient funding to do so”. In the debate the culture minister, Margot James, argued the transfer of the responsibility of administering TV licences for the over-75s to the BBC after 2020 was part of a “fair deal” for the corporation, and said a decision about what would happen after then was due next month.

• Ministers are believed to be poised to release hundreds of millions of pounds to fix private tower blocks wrapped in combustible Grenfell-style cladding after mounting public anger that dozens of freeholders and developers have refused to pay to make them safe.

That’s all from me for today.

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