A BREXIT-supporting Conservative MP has said at Prime Minister’s Questions that it is parliament’s job to debate and improve the legislation on leaving the EU.

Michael Tomlinson, MP for Mid-Dorset and North Poole, questioned Theresa May on the day the Daily Telegraph printed pictures on its front page of 15 MPs it branded ‘the Brexit mutineers’.

Parliament is currently considering a bill which would fix Britain’s exit from the European Union on March 29, 2019.

Mr Tomlinson asked: “Does the prime minister agree with me that it’s part of our job as members of parliament – some might even say it’s our duty as members of parliament – to scrutinise that legislation, to debate considered amendments which seek to improve the bill and which are constructive and which seek to ensure a smooth transition of our laws from the EU and UK and important that we come together and deliver Brexit for our country and the British people.”

Mrs May said in response: “There is of course a lively debate going on in this place and that’s right and proper and that’s important and there are strong views held on different sides of the argument about the European Union on both sides of this house.

“What we are doing as a government is listening to the contributions that are being made, we are listening carefully to those who wish to improve the bill and I hope that we can all come together to deliver on the decision that the country took that we should leave the European Union.”