Brexit party victory in Euro elections will bring down May, and possibly Corbyn too, claims Farage – live news

Jeremy Corbyn also marks the anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack, and he pays tribute to the work of the emergency services.

He says he wants to express his “outrage” about the way the government has failed the steel industry. There will be a statement later, he accepts.

Why are schools having to close early on Fridays?

On steel, May says the government is exploring all potential solutions. But it can only act within the law. It would be unlawful to provide a loan on terms demanded by the company. She says the chancellor has agreed an indemnity for the official receiver to ensure staff can still be paid.

On schools, May says the government is putting record money into education.

Corbyn says some schools are closing early on Fridays.

And more than 1,000 schools are using crowdfunding to pay for things like pencils. Why, if they are getting record funding?

May says the government is putting record money per pupil into every school. She says record rates of disadvantaged young people are going to university.

Antoinette Sandbach, a Conservative, asks about an energy-saving initiative.

May says the government is committed to improving energy efficiency in a set number of homes by 2030.

John Woodcock, the independent MP, says May may not have long left in power, but she can act against chemical weapons. Inspectors are investigating an alleged chlorine attack by Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

May says the government is monitoring this. If it was a chemical weapons attack, the UK will respond appropriately.

Theresa May says today marks two years from the “cowardly and sickly” Manchester Arena attack.

From the SNP’s Neil Gray

Another cabinet minister, Damian Hinds, the education secretary, has been unable to confirm that the vote on the second reading of the EU withdrawal agreement bill will definitely take place in the first week of June. This is from PoliticsHome’s Matt Honeycombe-Foster.

Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.

PMQs is starting soon.

I will post a quick snap summary at the end, in the brief gap before Theresa May delivers her Brexit statement. (There’s a 10-minute rule bill.)

Labour’s Angela Rayner says this could be May’s last PMQs – although it is hard to see why because what Tory MPs want is for May to announce her resignation, and the start of a leadership contest now, not for her to go immediately leaving a caretaker leader (David Lidington?) to run the country for the next few weeks until the leadership election is over.

From the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg

The “pizza club” are, broadly, the cabinet ministers who voted leave in the referendum – so-called because, at an initial meeting some time ago in Andrea Leadsom’s office in the Commons, pizza was served.

And this is from Nick Boles, who now sits as an independent MP having left the Conservatives.

This is from my colleague Heather Stewart.

Oops. My colleague Martin Belam has been looking at Facebook adverts for the European elections, and he has found that Change UK has been running some saying the party is campaigning to “remain in the UK”. Martin says they have spent at least £700 on those adverts.

From the Telegraph’s Steven Swinford