Theresa May ventured out for the first time since a major Cabinet mutiny that saw Andrea Leadsom quit last night - and left the government's plans in tatters. MPs have been told the legislation will not now be published tomorrow and the second reading will not take place in the first week of June - despite Mrs May previously laying out the timetable. The humiliating retreat is the clearest sign yet that Mrs May's time in power is drawing to a close, after fury at her compromise offer for the Commons to vote on whether to hold another Brexit referendum. Half-a-dozen other senior ministers - including Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid and Penny Mordaunt - looked ready to follow Mrs Leadsom out the door if she had not changed course. The PM's spokesman today confirmed the U-turn, insisting: ‘She is listening to colleagues’. It comes as millions of British voters are heading to the polls to give their verdict on Mrs May 's failure to deliver Brexit as her own MEPs warned they will all be wiped out spelling 'the end of our party'.
#DeniedMyVote: EU election day chaos as British expats can't vote due to forms arriving late while EU citizens in UK are turned away at polls
Many British voters living overseas including across the EU were not sent their voting forms from UK councils in sufficient time to vote and return the form by today's deadline. Expats Bill and Verena Turney, right, who wanted to vote from Valencia, Spain, said they were 'disgusted' Milton Keynes council had not sent their ballots in time. Meanwhile EU citizens living in the UK are reporting being turned away from polling stations for not having the right paperwork, which many say was not sent to them by councils. Both disenfranchised groups have taken to Twitter to complain using the hashtag #deniedmyvote (tweets inset).
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the stunning seven bed London mansion 'Bad Girl Ri Ri' is renting for £16k-a-week - and star has been secretly living there for A YEAR
This is the sprawling mansion - worth £30 million - where songstress Rihanna has been secretly living for a year. The superstar, originally from Barbados, sent her fans wild yesterday when she casually revealed in an interview that she's made Britain her home. Now MailOnline can reveal the Umbrella singer has spent the past 12 months staying in this stunning, £16,000-a-week, seven-bedroom mansion in one of the capital's most exclusive enclaves
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The victims of sick 'scoreboard' knife game: How gangs award 50 points for stabbing someone in the head, 30 in the chest and 10 for leg - then use Drill rap videos to brag about their crimes on YouTube
Gangs get maximum ‘points’ (left) for inflicting a head injury, with lower scores for hitting the chest or stomach, in a system experts think stems from violent computer games. Tavis Spencer-Aitkens (bottom inset) in Ipswich and Rhyhiem Barton (top inset) in south London have both died in attacks linked to gangs who boast about their 'scoreboard' online. Barton had appeared in a drill video (right) which included the lyrics 'check the scoreboard' and repeated references to people getting 'splashed', slang for stabbing.
Victims weep in court as predatory ex-Southampton and Peterborough youth coach Bob Higgins, 66, is found guilty of systemic abuse of 23 teenage boys
Victims of a paedophile former football coach Bob Higgins (left) broke down in tears in court today as the 66-year-old was found guilty of 45 counts of indecent assault against 23 boys. Bournemouth Crown Court heard Higgins (right in his coaching days) abused his position as a youth coach at Southampton and Peterborough United to abuse aspiring footballers who knew he was the 'Kingmaker' who had 'supreme power' over their sporting futures. Higgins was accused of 51 offences between 1971 and 1996 but was cleared of five while the jury - who deliberated for 41 hours - could not reach a verdict on the final count. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.
'He gave me the finger and got a milkshake and threw it on me': Yob pelts Brexit Party-supporting army veteran outside polling station
Don McNaughton, who is in his 80s and served in the Parachute Regiment from 1960 until 1982, was doused in the pink liquid this morning in Aldershot, Hampshire, while campaigning on European Parliament election day. He said: 'Some yob, mid-20s, he came across from (a) street, walked over to me, gave me the finger, went up to the Co-Op, got a milkshake, came down here and threw it on me. Politics today.' Mr McNaughton is thought to be a teller who had been sitting on a chair outside the polling station and recording the number of people who have voted. A crowdfunding page was set up to buy Mr McNaughton a new suit, and saw £600 donated in the first four hours. It is the latest in a spate of incidents involving people attacking public figures with milkshakes, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and EDL founder Tommy Robinson among those targeted in recent days.
'Some books light up the world': Tony Parsons and David Walliams lead tributes to The Tiger Who Came to Tea author Judith Kerr after she dies aged 95 following a short illness
Tributes have been paid to beloved children's author Judith Kerr (shown left) after she died at the age of 95 following a short illness. The celebrated writer, who died at home yesterday, wrote several enduring childhood classics including The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the Mog the Cat series. She lived an extraordinary life (pictured as a young girl in 1931, right), fleeing Germany and the rise of Nazism in 1933 and settling in England, where she forged a successful writing career spanning 50 years. Among those to pay their respects today was children's writer David Walliams, who said 'Judith is gone but her books will live on forever', while fellow author Tony Parsons (inset) simply added: 'Some books light up the world'. Kerr spoke openly about drawing inspiration from her own eventful childhood and felt compelled not to 'waste her life' having escaped the horrors of the Holocaust.
Careless driver becomes the 15th motorist to demolish garden wall of pensioner's 19th century Grade II listed £800,000 farmhouse
A careless driver has become the 15th motorist to demolish a three-foot garden wall of a pensioner's Grade II listed property. The fed-up owner of the home in Cambridge has blasted the council after her property has been continuously hit by motorists due to a lack of signs and road markings. Victoria Coldrey (centre) lives in an £800,000 farmhouse, which has a brick and flint wall around it, which has been hit a staggering 15 times. The 71-year-old has once again been left waiting in for the repair man after a driver once again lost control and struck it early this month (bottom right). She had already shelled out money for repair work after it was hit in January (top right). Prior to that it had also been hit in September 2016 (top left) and June 2018 (bottom left).
The bunker that gave birth to 'The Few': RAF war room where Churchill first uttered immortal title for Battle of Britain heroes reopens after £6m revamp
The historic operations room (top) in an underground bunker in Uxbridge from where the RAF conducted Battle of Britain defences (bottom centre) has been opened to the public after a £6million redevelopment. Built 60ft below the ground to protect against bomb and gas attacks, the bunker has been restored to look exactly like it would have on September 15, 1940, otherwise known as Battle of Britain day when one of the largest aerial battles was fought during World War II. It was home to 11 Group who were key in defending the UK against Hitler when he launched his invasion plan, Operation Sea Lion. It also played host to Winston Churchill in August 1940 and inspired him to refer to the Battle of Britain veterans as 'The Few' in a speech in the House of Commons days later. Pictured left is the 'tote board' system which told commanders where and what shape nearby squadrons were in while right is a hotline telephone that allowed Uxbridge to contact other bases quickly.
EXCLUSIVE: Harry and the cocaine corporal: Prince’s radio operator in Afghanistan and his wedding day escort will be kicked out of the Household Cavalry after failing a drugs test
Corporal Frankie O'Leary (left), who worked as Prince Harry's (centre) radio operator in Afghanistan back in 2007, will be kicked out of the Army after testing positive to cocaine The Mail can reveal. O'Leary, 32, was among four soldiers who tested positive to drug use, it is understood that Cpl O’Leary was not in the barracks at the time he took the class-A drug. A friend of Cpl O’Leary told the Mail: ‘He knows he has made a huge mistake and it has cost him the job he loved. ‘He just feels he has let down his family, friends and the regiment.’
Businessman, 49, sues letting agent for £100,000 after breaking his back and suffering brain injury as he tried to scale spiked security gate while carrying a takeaway to get to his £1m flat
Carlos Reguero Perez, 49 (pictured), had been returning home to his £1million flat in Hampstead, north London at around 10.30pm on February 4, 2015 when he discovered the newly installed gates (right). Keen to put his feet up and eat dinner, but without a fob or access code to open the electronically-controlled gates, he tried to clamber over but fell heavily and suffered serious injuries. As well as two spinal fractures, Mr Perez says he suffered a brain injury which has caused his eyes to become hyper-sensitive, so he is now forced to wear shades to cope with bright light. He is demanding six-figure compensation from Savills (UK) Ltd, who acted as managing agents for the landlord of his flat.
Does William have a sweet French nickname for Charlotte? Royal fans are convinced the prince calls her 'mignonette' in a video of the family playing in Kate's nature garden
The Cambridges have released videos of themselves playing as a family in Kate's Chelsea Flower Show garden - and in one, Prince William appears to call Princess Charlotte 'mignonette' (pictured). The term is a diminutive form of the French 'mignon', meaning 'cute'. While many fans took to social media to swear they heard the affectionate nickname being used (inset), others think he was simply asking his daughter if she'd been on the rope swing.
Trip to the dentist cost me my limbs: Man woke up from a coma to find both his arms and legs had been amputated and part of his face removed 'after a tiny nick on his gums caused deadly sepsis'
Tom Ray (pictured without his prosthetics right, and left with his wife Nic and inset on their wedding day in 1998) was fit and healthy and living in Rutland in the East Midlands before he contracted sepsis at the age of 38 in 1999. He spent three months in a coma during which time his wife Nic gave birth to their second child Fred, a brother for Grace. Due to his illness, the family lost their business and had to sell their home. Mr Ray's sepsis – caused by a cut to his gum during a trip to the dentist, combined with a chest infection – came on rapidly and led to vomiting and a high temperature. He fell into a coma and when he awoke he could not recognise his wife.
House designer reveals how he added an extra bedroom, bathroom and swanky new decor to a London flat for £70K - and instantly saw the value rocket by £265,000
Julian Prieto reveals how changing the blueprint of his ground floor flat in Fulham, South West London, added another bedroom - and more than £250,000 in value. The house designer saw the ground floor flat of the Victorian terrace property as an investment opportunity when he snapped it up for £515,000 two years ago. (Pictured: 102 Harwood Road Fulham before and after his transformation)
Vengeful ex-husband who blew up his marital home with him and his former wife inside it was today jailed for five years and four months
Ian Clowes, 68, from Poole, Dorset, was due to be evicted on the day he triggered an 'almighty explosion' and almost killed both him and ex-wife Elaine Clowes, 63, a Bournemouth court heard. She was found alive amid a pile rubble in her bedroom while Mr Clowes suffered serious burns that caused him to spend six weeks in a medically induced coma.
Tommy Robinson's 'intimidating' gang 'tried to film female punter' before EDL founder was kicked out of pub on night out with Wayne Rooney's look-alike younger brother
Tommy Robinson and his 'intimidating' gang of supporters were kicked out of a pub during a night out in Liverpool with Wayne Rooney's younger brother. The far-right activist was asked to leave the premises of the Slaughter House by its management after he and fellow revellers had partied there on Tuesday night. A female punter called Rachel Doherty said she argued with the EDL founder and his 'posse' for about an hour while one of his supporters filmed her without her consent. She criticised the pub for claiming Robinson was ejected 'immediately' and that staff did not know he was, claiming one bouncer actually 'supported Tommy's cause'. After leaving the Slaughter House, Robinson and Rooney's like-alike sibling Graham (pictured with the footballer, right) headed to another unnamed pub where they posted a video from the men's toilet (shown left).
Company director throttled fellow golfer who criticised his ‘golfing etiquette' after he didn’t shout fore when he nearly hit him with his ball
Lee Heasman (left), 40, was playing with friends at the £1,025-a-year Tenterden Golf Club (centre) in Kent in October 2017 when a ball flew past them as they putted on the 14th hole. Angry about how no one had shouted the warning word before the ball was hit, he challenged property developer Adam Roffey (right), who was among the golfers behind. Accountancy consultant Mr Heasman, who has epilepsy, said company director Roffey quickly became violent as he put his hands around his neck and throttled him. Mr Heasman immediately walked off to the clubhouse and got his phone out to take photos of Roffey (this image, right), 31, so he could inform club bosses and police what happened. Folkestone Magistrates' Court heard how Roffey, of Ashford, then stormed over to Mr Heasman as he took photos and attacked him, causing him to fall over a golf trolley.
Gang of watch thieves grabbed one of world’s rarest timepieces worth £700,000 after targeting wealthy shoppers on London streets, court hears
Mehdi Didda (pictured left and right), 33, and Mohamed Safri, 34, were allegedly part of a gang who targeted wealthy Londoners for their valuables including watches and bags, a court heard. They are accused of working with Didda's brother Sofiane, 43, to sell the goods from a lock-up in Bayswater, London, and the jury heard their haul included a £700,000 Richard Mille RM 69 Erotic Tourbillon watch (inset) which is just one of 30 ever made. All three deny the charges and are on trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Elon Musk hands sheep meme man the keys to Tesla's Twitter: British museum worker behind 'absolute unit' tweet goes from £24k to £75,000-a-year job after being hired as car maker's social media guru
Adam Koszary (left) has cashed in on the success of a tweet he posted while working for Reading's Museum of English Rural Life. Now he's becoming Tesla's Social Media Manager. The extraordinary career move is thought to be down to just one tweet, showing a muscular Exmoor ram with the caption 'Look at this absolute unit', which he posted on the feed of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life last year. The meme (right), which showed a photo taken on a Devon farm from the 1960s, went around the world, amassing more than 110,000 likes and attracting the attention of Tesla boss Elon Musk (top right).
Schoolgirl, 16, threw herself to death in front of a train on the day she was due to receive her GCSE results, inquest hears
A schoolgirl threw herself in front of a train on the day she was due to receive the grades for her GCSEs, an inquest has heard. Jasmine Bush (left and right) was a passionate photography student and had previously told her grandfather that she wanted to know her photography grades before she took her own life. The 16-year-old had been suffering with various mental health issues, including anxiety and had been on medication to help control the symptoms. The inquest in Surrey heard from the blonde-haired teenager's mother, Nicky Bush who courageously told the jury of the horrific moment when she realised her daughter had fled the house - before receiving a message on Facebook that someone had been found dead at a local train station.
'You can't cheat then?': Queen learns how to use self-checkout as she visits a pop-up Sainsbury's - and wonders what stops shoppers from leaving without paying
The Queen, 93, looked elegant in a mint green coat and matching hat as she visited a pop-up Sainsbury's store in central London this morning (left and right). The shop is designed to look just like the supermarket's first branch, which opened its doors on Drury Lane in 1869. When it first opened, the shop sold only butter, milk and eggs. The Queen's great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria was on the throne at the time.
'He knocked me down, but he won't KEEP me down!': Defiant grandfather, 80, hopes 'prat' road rage driver who attacked him as he crossed road with wife feels 'ashamed of himself'
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Eva, 80, who has ten great grandchildren, was chased and pushed over by a motorist after the pair had a verbal row in the street in Penge, South East London. The driver argued with Mr Eva, who was walking home with his wife Jackie from a barbecue for her birthday, as he crossed the road shortly before 8pm on April 21. The motorist then got out and followed Mr Eva down the street before attacking him. He was found unconscious by paramedics after hitting a wall as he fell over. Today, Mr Eva said: 'I just hope this guy feels totally ashamed of himself. It was unnecessary. But he may have knocked me down but he won't keep me down.'
The five mistakes that snared Soham killer Ian Huntley: How suspicions fell on helpful school caretaker after he quizzed police about DNA, changed his car tyres and basked in the media spotlight over death of two schoolgirls
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Fair enough? Obese passenger accuses Qantas of 'fat-shaming' him after flight attendant told him to he had to move from his pre-booked seat next to the emergency exit
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EXCLUSIVE: Homeland Security report says Trump administration has built just 20 miles of border wall and has funding plans for another 316 – despite White House claims that it's on track for 500 by next year
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