Here is the full text of Theresa May’s statement to MPs.
And here is the text of Jeremy Corbyn’s response to her.
Brexit: Theresa May urges MPs to 'take a second look' at her deal – as it happened
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Tory whip Gareth Johnson has resigned, saying he cannot support May’s deal in Tuesday’s vote
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Mon 14 Jan 2019 15.59 EST
First published on Mon 14 Jan 2019 04.33 ESTKey events
- Closing summary
- May again refuses to categorically rule out extending article 50
- What May said about how 'history books' will judge MPs after they vote tomorrow
- May urges MPs to 'give this deal second look' and think how history will judge them
- May's statement to MPs
- McDonnell welcomes fact government can no longer take parliament for granted
- Thornberry says May under 'constitutional obligation' to call election if she loses Brexit vote
- Bercow condemns government for delaying implementation of proxy voting in Commons
- Government releases new advice from attorney general welcoming Tusk/Juncker letter
- Boris Johnson rejects claim Jaguar Land Rover boss knows more about car industry than he does
- Raab sets out leadership credentials in speech calling for asbos for anti-competitive businesses
- Tory whip Gareth Johnson resigns from government because he's opposed to May's Brexit deal
- DUP questions May's claim 'everyday life' in Northern Ireland would change under no-deal Brexit
- DUP says Tusk/Juncker letter has heightened its concerns about backstop
- Theresa May's speech and Q&A - Summary
- Starmer says Tusk/Juncker letter shows May has 'failed to deliver'
- May refuses to firmly rule out extending article 50
- May's Q&A
- May explains what new assurances on backstop she has received from EU
- May says Brexit could be halted if her deal gets voted down
- Theresa May's Brexit speech
- Tusk and Juncker says EU will consider technological alternatives to backstop will be considered
- No 10 releases exchange of letters between May and Tusk/Juncker over backstop
- Boris Johnson says people will blame 'deep state' if Brexit gets blocked
- How many no confidence motions can Jeremy Corbyn table?
- May accused of 'utter hypocrisy' after citing Welsh devolution as example of why referendum vote must be honoured
- Fox claims no deal 'survivable' as May launches last-minute bid to rescue her deal
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Key events
- Closing summary
- May again refuses to categorically rule out extending article 50
- What May said about how 'history books' will judge MPs after they vote tomorrow
- May urges MPs to 'give this deal second look' and think how history will judge them
- May's statement to MPs
- McDonnell welcomes fact government can no longer take parliament for granted
- Thornberry says May under 'constitutional obligation' to call election if she loses Brexit vote
- Bercow condemns government for delaying implementation of proxy voting in Commons
- Government releases new advice from attorney general welcoming Tusk/Juncker letter
- Boris Johnson rejects claim Jaguar Land Rover boss knows more about car industry than he does
- Raab sets out leadership credentials in speech calling for asbos for anti-competitive businesses
- Tory whip Gareth Johnson resigns from government because he's opposed to May's Brexit deal
- DUP questions May's claim 'everyday life' in Northern Ireland would change under no-deal Brexit
- DUP says Tusk/Juncker letter has heightened its concerns about backstop
- Theresa May's speech and Q&A - Summary
- Starmer says Tusk/Juncker letter shows May has 'failed to deliver'
- May refuses to firmly rule out extending article 50
- May's Q&A
- May explains what new assurances on backstop she has received from EU
- May says Brexit could be halted if her deal gets voted down
- Theresa May's Brexit speech
- Tusk and Juncker says EU will consider technological alternatives to backstop will be considered
- No 10 releases exchange of letters between May and Tusk/Juncker over backstop
- Boris Johnson says people will blame 'deep state' if Brexit gets blocked
- How many no confidence motions can Jeremy Corbyn table?
- May accused of 'utter hypocrisy' after citing Welsh devolution as example of why referendum vote must be honoured
- Fox claims no deal 'survivable' as May launches last-minute bid to rescue her deal
Labour’s Mike Gapes says in the UK system no parliament can bind its successor. It was not this parliaement that promised to implement the referendum result, but the last one.
May says Gapes may not have noticed, but the Conservatives are in power. They will implement Brexit.
Bill Wiggin, a Conservative, asks May if she can assure him that she will continue to carry on with “British grit” if she loses the vote tomorrow.
May says she will carry on with determination.
I’m afraid comments will need to close at 6pm, because we are short of moderators tonight. I’m sorry about that.
Here is some comment on the May statement.
From CityAM’s Owen Bennett
These Brexit statements from Theresa May are getting bit final-few-series-of-Big-Brother. Interesting at first, at times captivating, now just repetitive, undignified, but a few of us watch til the bitter end out of a sense of macabre fascination.
— Owen Bennett (@owenjbennett) January 14, 2019
From the Guardian’s Peter Walker
Theresa May's last-day speech/exchange of letters/statement to the Commons was always a near-impossible task in terms of swinging tomorrow's Brexit vote. But MPs called so far seem as hostile as ever. This is an ex-plan. It has joined the choir invisible.
— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) January 14, 2019
From the Spectator’s James Forsyth
We’re back to Nigel Dodds shaking his head at Theresa May’s answers on the backstop
— James Forsyth (@JGForsyth) January 14, 2019
From the Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh
Surreal atmosphere in the Commons as May speaks. Nobody has changed their mind over Brexit. Weary MPs resigned to the battle to come. At times May's normally strong voice appears to falter.
— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) January 14, 2019
Chris Bryant, the Labour MP, says No 10 is indicating that it will support amendments to the motion tabled by Hugo Swire and Andrew Murrison. Yet the government used to argue (ie, here - pdf) that, if the motion were amended, then that might stop the government ratifying the withdrawal agreement. So why has the government changed its mind?
May says MPs still do not know what amendments will get called tomorrow. But if the government does support those amendments, it will be to give MPs more confidence about supporting the deal, she says. She says they would not impact on the ratification of the treaty.
Charlie Elphicke, the Conservative, asks May to confirm that leaving the EU with no deal would not be the end of the world.
May says it would be difficult, but the UK could recover from a no-deal Brexit.
Labour’s Rachel Reeves, the chair of the business committee, asks May to rule out a no-deal Brexit.
May says it is very simple: either you have a deal, her deal, the one on the table, or you have no deal.
John Baron, a Conservative, asks what assurances there are that the EU would not drag out the trade talks for years.
May says that would not be good for the EU. If the UK were stuck in the backstop, it would have tariff-free access to the single market, without having to pay any money or grant access to its fishing waters.
Luciana Berger, the Labour MP, asks why it was acceptable for May to vote against the Welsh assembly, after people voted for it in a referendum, when she is now saying the Brexit referendum result must be accepted.
May says parliament was clear; the referendum result must be accepted.
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