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Brexit: May hit by two cabinet resignations as Raab and McVey quit over plan - Politics live | Brexit: May hit by two cabinet resignations as Raab and McVey quit over plan - Politics live |
(35 minutes later) | |
John Bercow, the Speaker, says he has now taken 50 questions from backbenchers. He appeals for short questions. | |
Nick Herbert, a Conservative, says the key point is the future relationship with the EU. He says most MPs voted to trigger article 50. Tory MPs should be careful what they wish for, he says. | |
May thanks Herbert for what he said. The future relationship is what will determine the country’s relationship with the EU for years ahead, she says. | |
Labour’s Mary Creagh says May is offering people a false choice, and she calls for a people’s vote. May says she has already addressed this. | |
Labour’s David Lammy says the deal will not get through parliament. When politics is broken, one can only put the decision back to the people, he says. | |
May says, when she talks to people, they tell her they just want the politicians to get on with it. | |
These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. | |
I've just been speaking to Dominic Raab - he told the Chief Whip at end of Cabinet he was quitting, tells me the deal won't get through Parliament, and the EU have been 'blackmailing' us - interview on @bbcnews soon | |
Raab says better for UK to walk away and accept short term pain than sign up to terms that could damage the country for years and years to come - says he still supports the PM and irresponsible to talk leadershp, but doesn't rule it out if and when time comes | |
Kate Hoey, the Labour Brexiter, says everyone is being “sold out” by this deal, particularly the people of Northern Ireland. May does not accept that. | |
Labour’s Luciana Berger says the deal is not in the national interest. A YouGov poll shows 63% of people opposed, and 64% in favour of a people’s vote. | |
May suggests she is surprised, since the 500-page text of the deal was only published last night. | |
Julian Lewis, the Tory Brexiter, says he is worried about a “Hotel California” Brexit where the UK can never leave. | |
The Labour MP Barry Sheerman says May is a woman of courage who has been let down by her colleagues. He says she has an impossible task, because no Brexit deal is better than the status quo. | |
Antoinette Sandbach, a Tory pro-European, asks when the full text of the future framework will be published. | |
May says this has to be negotiated with the EU. Once that is over, it will be published, before the meaningful vote. | |
Tom Brake, the Lib Dem Brexit spokesman, says May referred to staying in the EU being an option. That would only happen if there was an election or a second referendum. So which is it? | |
May ignores the question, and says the UK will not be isolated after Brexit. | |
The Tory Brexiter Peter Bone says the government will give £39bn to the EU, when it has no legal obligation to do so, for nothing in return. That amounts to £60m for every constituency. He lists some things in his constituency that that money could be spend on. | |
May says she does not agree. She says the UK does have legal obligations. | |
Sarah Wollaston, the Conservative remain supporter, says we are running out of road. Crashing out of the EU with no deal would be “unforgivable”, she says. She urges May to consider a second referendum. | |
May says she firmly believes, that having given that choice to the British people, MPs must honour what the people voted for. | |
Stephen Crabb, the Tory former work and pensions secretary, says there was always going on to be a moment when Brexit claims met reality. He says it would be irresponsible to walk away. The government must make the best of this situation, he says. | |
Labour’s Phil Wilson asks May if she can say, “hand on heart”, that this deal is better than what the UK has now. | |
May says she firmly believes the UK’s best days are ahead. | |
UPDATE: This is from Labour’s Pat McFadden. | |
The most telling reply of the day - the tacit admission that this deal makes us worse off. https://t.co/MaPrMpmIfW | |