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Brexit vote: May faces historic defeat as deal's fate looms – Politics live Brexit vote: May faces historic defeat as deal's fate looms – Politics live
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Just issued new pictures from @HouseofCommons ahead of the meaningful vote (please credit appropriately, as per description. UK Parliament @Jess__Taylor__ /Mark Duffy) pic.twitter.com/EojveD2tgk May says a vote against her deal is a vote for “uncertainty, division and the very real risk of no deal”.
From ITV’s Angus Walker The SNP’s Ian Blackford intervenes. He says all the studies show Brexit will make the UK poorer. Will the government extend article 50 and give the people a choice?
Labour’s @TulipSiddiq arrives for the vote in a wheelchair. Astonishing that there isn’t a proxy vote system for MPs so close to giving birth. Colleague advising her that as long as a whip comes out and sees her on palace property she can be ‘nodded through’ #Brexit May says MPs were clear that the result of the referendum would be respected.
Matt Warman, the Tory MP for Boston and Skegness, says his constituency was the most pro-Brexit. If Brexit is not delivered, it will be hard to argue that the UK is a democracy, he claims. She repeats the line about a vote against the deal being a vote for “uncertainty, division and the very real risk of no deal”.
He will vote with the PM tonight, because he is committed to Brexit. He says voting against the deal will “put winds in the sails of those who are seeking to stop it”. May says Corbyn’s speech was like his whole approach to Brexit, “long on critcism, short on coherence”.
He says the risk of being stuck in the backstop is smaller than the risk of Brexit not happening. She mocks the idea that he would be able to get a renegotiation in weeks.
Corbyn deep in conversation with the speaker.... She says that in the 2017 election manifesto Labour said free movement would end. Yet at the weekend Corbyn said he was not against free movement.
Advance warning that he is going to table a no confidence motion? She says he is against no deal. But he is also against the backstop, without which there is no deal, she says.
From the Telegraph’s Steven Swinford She says Corbyn has pursued a cynical course. He has forfeited the right to demand loyalty from Labour MPs who take a more pragmatic view.
Hearing Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay's PPS Eddie Hughes could quit tonight over the PM's deal. We've been to him for comment - he's yet to respond.He's one of several PPS's who could quit tonight rather than vote for PM's deal. She says she hopes that MPs opposed to no deal, whose constituents rely on manufacturing jobs, should think hard about rejecting her deal.
From the Spectator’s James Forsyth May appeals to Labour MPs to abandon their loyalty to Corbyn and back her deal for the sake of their constituents.
Irony of the competing demos outside parliament is that they'd all be voting in the same division lobby tonight Sir Edward Leigh intervenes. He says MPs are worried about the backstop. Will the government support his amendment?
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is in the gallery to watch the final speech and votes. May says the government is not able to support this amendment. But she praises Leigh for the work he has done on this issue and says the government is willing to look at alternative, “creative solutions” to this problem. She suggests a second Leigh amendment on the order paper, which is not being put to a vote tonight (amendment r) could provide a guide to the way forward.
PM has just entered the chamber mid-speech from one Labour MP just as he says she has “failed miserably”. She raises her eyebrows... May says, having rejected all the other options, only one remains: voting for this deal. She says if the UK leaves with this deal, it can build a better future.
Philip May is in the Chamber to watch the PM wrap up the Brexit debate. Sadiq Khan is also here to watch. She says as PM she would not recommend a course of action not in the country’s best interest.
Mike Wood, a Conservative, tells the Commons he expected to resign as a PPS today so he could vote against the deal. But he now fears Brexit could be stopped if the deal is defeated. So he will be voting with the government, he says. He says he does not want to see Brexit “stolen”. May goes on:
The SNP’s Joanna Cherry says it is clear that Scotland was lied to during the 2014 independence referendum. Scotland was told it would be an equal partner with England, and that if it stayed in the UK, it would stay in the EU. Both were not true. Now she wants a second referendum on Brexit, and on Scottish independence, she says. The government will work harder at taking parliament with us.
My colleague Peter Walker thinks some of the pro-Brexit campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament need to learn their history. This provokes loud jeering.
Outside parliament, small group of yellow vest/Leave Means Leave people switch from chanting “Soubry is a Nazi” to “There’s only one James Goddard”. Worth noting it’s only Goddard who has actually called for millions of people to be deported on the basis of their religion. pic.twitter.com/E8tO9rx0D7 In the next phase of the talks, it will work with parliament on its plans.
This is from the Telegraph’s Christopher Hope. May says some people think that, by voting down this deal, they can get the government to go back to Brussels to get a better one. But the EU is not going to reopen talks, she says.
NEW 80 Tory Eurosceptic MPs and peers attended one of the best attended European Research Group meetings in recent weeks tonight. The MPs pledged to vote against Theresa May's deal. Nothing has changed. May refers to Corbyn’s call for a general election. But this is about what is best for the country, not what is best for Labour. And she says that, after an election, the choices facing the country would remain the same.
Caroline Johnson, a Conservative, said she would be supporting the deal. She said those in favour of Brexit had the odds against them; it was like being one player down, 10 against 11, with a referee who was taking sides. She says people could show their support for a second referendum in the 2017 general election by voting Lib Dem. But only 7% of people did.
After she finished, John Bercow, the Speaker, intervened angrily to say that he was not biased, that he had chaired every hour of the debate, and that he had done his best to ensure every MP had their say. May says the Commons voted to give the public the right to decide if the UK stayed in the EU. Four hundred and 30 current MPs voted to hold that referendum; only 32 voted against.
Sir Hugo Swire, a Conservative, told MPs in the debate that he would be voting against Theresa May’s deal. He says he cannot accept the idea of the UK being trapped in the backstop. The turnout in the referendum was high, and the result was clear, she says. And then 436 MPs voted to trigger article 50. Only 85 MPs voted against, she says.
She says MPs have a duty to deliver on the democratic wishes of the British people.
A second referendum would create further disunity. There would be no agreement on the question, let alone on the answer, she says.
And she rejects a no-deal. There would be no implementation period, with no reciprocal protection for the rights of citizens.
No-deal would mean no security partnership with the EU.
She says her deal provides the basis for a long-term economic partnership with the EU. It would be more ambitious than any other the EU has. A no-deal Brexit would put that at risk.
She says, while the UK could manage with a no-deal Brexit, it would be wrong to describe this as the best outcome.
Theresa May stands up, to loud and sustained applause from Conservatives.
(Note to readers unfamiliar with the loyalty of British parliamentarians: this does not mean she is going to win the vote.)
Corbyn says under this government more people are living in poverty. Some Tories seem to protest, presumably because Corbyn is moving off the topic of Brexit, but he pushes back, saying they should not respond like that to half a million more children being in poverty.
We need to keep in mind that the vast majority of people in our country don’t think of themselves remainers or leavers. Whether they voted leave or remain two and a half years ago, they are concerned about their future.
So Mr Speaker, I hope tonight that this house votes down this deal and then we move to a general election.
Corbyn says a general election would give a new government a mandate to break the deadlock in the Brexit talks.
Corbyn has a message for the EU.
The overwhelming majority of this house voted to respect the result of the referendum, and therefore to trigger article 50.
So I say this to our negotiating partners in the EU: if parliament votes down this deal, then reopening negotiations should not, and cannot, be ruled out.
Corbyn says the EU should agree to reopen Brexit talks if MPs vote down Theresa May’s deal.
Corbyn say many Tories will vote with Labour against the deal. And he is glad a majority of MPs are against a no-deal Brexit.
But it is not enough for this house to vote against the deal before us and against no-deal. We also have to be for something.
So, Mr Speaker, in the coming days it is vital that this house has the opportunity to debate and vote on the way forward, to consider all the options available.
Corbyn says there is no clarity about the future in the future partnership document.
The former Brexit secretary – one of the former Brexit secretaries – promised a “detailed”, “precise” and “substantive” document. The government spectacularly failed to deliver it.
So I confirm that Labour will vote against this deal tonight because it is a bad deal for the country.