"I will contest that vote with everything I've got."
That was the defiant message from Theresa May as she announced that she was cancelling a meeting with Leo Varadkar to try to win her vote of no confidence later this evening.
"I was due to travel to Dublin to continue that work but will remain in London," she said referring to her meeting with her Dutch and German counterparts yesterday adding that the vote of no confidence was not "in the national interest".
"The British public want us to get on with it," she stated outside Number 10 Downing Street.
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"We must and we shall move ahead with the referendum vote"
