Brexit: Theresa May urges MPs to 'take a second look' at her deal – as it happened

Liz Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru leader at Westminster, says May said this morning MPs should honour the result of the Brexit referendum, even though she voted against setting up the Welsh assembly and subsequently fought an election on a manifesto suggesting it could be abolished. Why should MPs listen to her on Brexit?

May says the Conservatives accepted the result of the referendum on Welsh devolution.

Hilary Benn, the Labour chair of the Brexit committee, said it is clear the EU will not offer the UK any further help. He invites May to commit to reaching out across the Commons to find a solution if her deal is voted down. And she should seek an extension of article 50, he says.

May says she is reaching out to MPs. She has been meeting Labour MPs, she says.

Anna Soubry, the Conservative pro-European, asks why young people who could not vote in the 2016 referendum should not have a say on Brexit now. They are the people who will bear the brunt of it, she says.

May says the government said it would accept the referendum decision.

Owen Paterson, the Tory Brexiter, asks what meetings May has had with experts who can show how technical solutions can address the Irish border issue.

May says the plans that Paterson brought her on this (an ERG plan - available here) would not fully avoid the need for controls at the border.

Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, says the government is a servant of the Commons. If May loses the vote, she would let the Commons have its say.

May says the government is a servant of the people.

Sir Bill Cash, the Tory Brexiter, asks May to confirm that she will “never” extend article 50.

May says the government’s intention is to leave the EU on 29 March. She says some people want to stop that. But the government is firm in its intention, she says.

She says “it remains the commitment of this government to leave the European Union on 29 March.”

• May again refuses to categorically rule out extending article 50.

In response to Blackford, May says, if the SNP believe in listening to the people, they would drop support for Scottish independence.

Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, is speaking now. Is that it, he asks. He says May has failed to achieve what she set out to achieve. The voices of the people of Scotland are being ignored, he says. “This is a defining moment,” he says. Why is the PM continuing to ignore Scotland?

He urges May to extend article 50 and “let the people decide”.

Here is the final passage from Theresa May’s opening statement - her “hand of history” peroration. (Or not - it wasn’t exactly Churchill.)

So I say to Members on all sides of this House – whatever you may have previously concluded – over these next 24 hours, give this deal a second look.

No it is not perfect. And yes it is a compromise.

But when the history books are written, people will look at the decision of this House tomorrow and ask:

Did we deliver on the country’s vote to leave the European Union?

Did we safeguard our economy, our security and our Union?

Or did we let the British people down?

I say we should deliver for the British people and get on with building a brighter future for our country by backing this deal tomorrow.

May is responding to Corbyn.

She says Corbyn’s call for a general election shows he is just playing politics. Yesterday, when asked what he would say on Brexit in an election campaign, he refused five times to say, she says.