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Brexit - live updates: May accused over homelessness at PMQs as Tory rebels threaten EU withdrawal vote defeat Brexit - live updates: May accused over homelessness at PMQs as Tory rebels threaten EU withdrawal vote defeat
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Welcome to The Independent’s liveblog of Wednesday Prime Minister’s Questions and the seventh day of debates on the Government’s Brexit legislation. Welcome to The Independent’s live blog taking in Prime Minister’s Questions and the seventh day of debates on the Government’s Brexit legislation.
  
  
In the Commons today Theresa May will face Jeremy Corbyn for the penultimate Prime Minister’s Questions of 2017. It comes as David David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, rushes to repair damage caused by his comments about the breakthrough Brexit deal not being legally binding.  While it was quite a subdued affair at Prime Minister’s Questions this week, Jeremy Corbyn clearly came off better.
On Tuesday, Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator, lashed out at Mr Davis and revealed the Parliament would toughen up its red lines on Brexit. Tackling the Government on homelessness – something that has gone up by around 50 per cent since 2010 – May found it difficult to defend the indefensible.
And later, MPs will also debate the Government’s EU (Withdrawal) Bill. While Ms May has so far avoided defeat in the Commons on dozens of amendments there is the real possibility the Government could lose a vote later this evening on a rebel motion.  Corbyn devoted all of his questions to housing, avoiding a scattergun approach to different topics, which was quite effective.
If it passes the amendment - put forward by the Tory MP and former attorney general Dominic Greive - would force the Government to write into law Parliament’s vote on the final Brexit deal terms. Mr Grieve warned on Tuesday that he has enough Tory support to win the vote and Downing Street are now attempting to buy off rebels with concessions and further promises. The Prime Minister hit back by reeling off statistics from the last Labour government – a questionable line of attack given the Conservatives have been in government since the beginning of the decade.
Elsewhere, May also insisted at the weekly session that MPs will be given a vote on the the final Brexit deal.
Her comments come as faces the prospect of a serious defeat in the Commons on Wednesday evening after the Tory rebel Dominic Grieve said he believed he has enough support to inflict defeat on the Government.
While he has requested a concession from the Government to avoid a vote later, May was not forthcoming. “We will put the final withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU to a vote in both Houses of Parliament before it comes into force.”