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| MPs who want to deliver the referendum result should vote for the government's Brexit bill and worry about the detail afterwards, a senior minister has said. | MPs who want to deliver the referendum result should vote for the government's Brexit bill and worry about the detail afterwards, a senior minister has said. |
| A vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that will implement Brexit - is expected early next month. | A vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that will implement Brexit - is expected early next month. |
| Health Secretary Matt Hancock said MPs should back it "no matter the details" they want in a future relationship. | |
| But ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis says if the bill passes, the PM's successor will "have their hands tied". | |
| Theresa May announced last week that MPs would vote on the bill in the week beginning 3 June. If it is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal. | Theresa May announced last week that MPs would vote on the bill in the week beginning 3 June. If it is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal. |
| BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the vote "really is the last roll of the dice" for the prime minister, who has had her withdrawal agreement with the EU rejected three times in the Commons. | BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the vote "really is the last roll of the dice" for the prime minister, who has had her withdrawal agreement with the EU rejected three times in the Commons. |
| Mrs May last week promised to set out the timetable for her own departure after the vote. | |
| Meanwhile, Ireland's deputy prime minister has ruled out any renegotiation of the Brexit withdrawal deal regardless of who occupies Number 10. | |
| Mr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today: "If you want, as an MP, to leave the European Union and deliver on the result of referendum - no matter the details you want to see in terms of the future relationship - you need to vote for legislation and then have the debate in the committee stages later on exactly what the details are. | Mr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today: "If you want, as an MP, to leave the European Union and deliver on the result of referendum - no matter the details you want to see in terms of the future relationship - you need to vote for legislation and then have the debate in the committee stages later on exactly what the details are. |
| "No doubt there will be votes on really big issues, on whether to have a 'People's vote' or whether to have a customs union, both of which I'm against." | "No doubt there will be votes on really big issues, on whether to have a 'People's vote' or whether to have a customs union, both of which I'm against." |
| Theresa May insists that the Brexit plan she'll discuss with her cabinet on Tuesday is "new" - and not to be confused with the deal that went down to defeat three times in the Commons. | |
| And some of it will represent a fresh approach - further moves on workers' rights to try to appeal to Labour MPs, for example. But some of it will be familiar, including the controversial Northern Ireland backstop which the DUP and Conservative Brexiteers, in particular, loathe. | |
| Irrespective of the specifics, Matt Hancock gave a sneak preview of the argument the prime minister will make herself. | |
| She plans to deliver a speech later this week spelling out that this could be the last chance of leaving the EU with a deal. | |
| Vote down the latest legislation, and both no deal and no Brexit at all become more likely. | |
| The trouble is, some MPs find the former attractive and others are willing to gamble on the latter. | |
| Mr Hancock, who is tipped as a potential runner to be next Tory leader, said the government must deliver from the centre and not veer to the right. | |
| He insisted Mrs May's Brexit plan would include "new proposals" for MPs to vote on - those are expected to include enhanced protection for workers' rights and the environment. | |
| But prominent Brexiteer Mr Davis, who is firmly on the right of the party, told BBC Radio 4's Today he would not support the bill. | |
| "The reason I voted for the last two variants of it is that it had been modified a bit, but what was clear is that if we didn't get that through there'd be a chaotic consequential outcome," he said. | |
| Mr Davis said the bill, which will be considered by the cabinet on Tuesday, was "not a great new offer". | |
| "If we pass that act, it opens things up so that a successor to the prime minister, the next prime minister, will have their hands tied," he said. | |
| "I think the next prime minister must have the right to reset the negotiation on their terms." | |
| Jeremy Corbyn said he would consider any new proposals "very carefully", but he said what was being talked about did not appear "fundamentally different" from what was already on the table. | |
| As things stand, Labour MPs will vote against it, he said. |