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Frank Field, the former Labour MP who now sits as an independent, asks if the UK will be completely independent under this plan. May tries to give those assurances. John Bercow, the Speaker, says he has now taken 50 questions from backbenchers. He appeals for short questions.
Amber Rudd, the Conservative former home secretary, asks May what response she has had from business to the plan. 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.
(That was a helplful question, so we can probably chalk Rudd up as the third MP to speak out in support.) 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.
May quotes positive business reaction. 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.
This is from Newsnight’s Nicholas Watt. 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.
With two Tory MPs supporting Theresa May’s deal she has one breakthrough: enough tellers for her #Brexit vote May says, when she talks to people, they tell her they just want the politicians to get on with it.
Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister and ERG vice chair, says this backstop is “completely intolerable”. MPs will not vote for it. So will May trigger all no deal planning now? These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
May says MPs will get to vote on the deal, but the government is continuing no deal planning too. 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
Nicky Morgan, the Tory pro-European who was sacked by May as education secretary, says backing the deal would be in the national interest. May welcomes her comments. 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
Labour’s Ben Bradshaw asks if it is true that Theresa May, when she was home secretary, told the security services not to investigate Arron Banks. 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.
May says she cannot comment on security matters. 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.
Mark Francois, a Tory Brexiter and a member of the European Research Group, says there are 84 Tories who will vote against the deal, and the numbers are rising. The agreement was “dead on arrival”, he says. He urges May to accept the political reality. May suggests she is surprised, since the 500-page text of the deal was only published last night.
The prime minister says when a deal gets brought back it will be for MPs to consider it, and their duty to deliver on the vote of the British people. Julian Lewis, the Tory Brexiter, says he is worried about a “Hotel California” Brexit where the UK can never leave.
Labour’s Angela Eagle says May’s fatal mistake has been to kowtow to Brexit extremists who made promises that were undeliverable. 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.
May says she has kowtowed to no one. Antoinette Sandbach, a Tory pro-European, asks when the full text of the future framework will be published.
At last. An MP has defended May and her deal. Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative, said the agreement was the best available. May says this has to be negotiated with the EU. Once that is over, it will be published, before the meaningful vote.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory Brexiter, says May said the UK would leave the customs union, protect the integrity of the UK and take the UK out of the jurisdiction of the European court of justice. But the deal does not do these things. As what May says and what she does “no longer match”, should he write to Graham Brady (chair of the backbench 1922 Committee)? 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 says in the future relationship the UK will no longer be in the customs union or single market, the integrity of the UK will have been maintained, and the jurisdiction of the ECJ will be ended. She will deliver on her commitments, she says. May ignores the question, and says the UK will not be isolated after Brexit.
Labour’s Chris Leslie says not a single MP has yet spoken up in favour of May’s plan. May says remaining in the EU is an option. How can that be achieved? 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 said there was a risk of no Brexit. But the government is determined to deliver on leaving the EU. May says she does not agree. She says the UK does have legal obligations.
Justine Greening, the Tory former education secretary, says if it was acceptable to have a referendum before, why not again? 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 there was an overwhelming vote in parliament to have a referendum. People voted in that in huge numbers. She says she has seen the EU before ask people to vote again when they vote against the EU, a “go back and think again” vote. That would be wrong, she says. May says she firmly believes, that having given that choice to the British people, MPs must honour what the people voted for.
Yvette Cooper, the Labour chair of the home affairs committee, says the political declaration does not mention the European arrest warrant or the SIS II information exchange system. 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.
May says the government wants an arrangement covering arrests. And she says SIS II will be taken forward in further negotiations. Labour’s Phil Wilson asks May if she can say, “hand on heart”, that this deal is better than what the UK has now.
Sir Bill Cash, the Tory Brexiter, says the deal amounts to broken promises and abject capitulation to the EU. The EU will continue to control UK laws after this, he says. May says she firmly believes the UK’s best days are ahead.
May says the EU will not control UK laws in future. UPDATE: This is from Labour’s Pat McFadden.
She says she recognises the concerns Cash raises. But she wants to implement the referendum result in a way that protects jobs, she says. The most telling reply of the day - the tacit admission that this deal makes us worse off. https://t.co/MaPrMpmIfW
Hilary Benn, the Labour chair of the Brexit committee, says the UK will remain in the customs union under this plan. Will May admit to the British people that that is in the national interest?
May says what is in the national interest is having a good trading partnership with the EU.
Anna Soubry, the Conservative pro-European, says May cannot honour the promises made by Brexiters because those cannot be met. She asks May to not rule out a second referendum.
May says she cannot give that assurance. The UK will leave the EU on 29 March next year, she says.
Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader, says he could take May through the promises she made in public, and private, to his party. But it would be a waste of time because “she clearly doesn’t listen”. He says the five people who have resigned today have all said May’s deal would compromise the integrity of the UK. We can either vote to protect the UK. Or vote for a vassal state that will break it up, he says.
May says her commitments to Northern Ireland remain.
She says neither side want to see the backstop exercised.
She says she does not accept that she has not considered Northern Ireland in this process. (Dodds signals to her he is not saying that.)