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BBC Radio 5 Live's Guy Kilty is at White Lion in Wrightington near Wigan talking to the locals ahead of tonight's Brexit vote.

Ian said: "I voted Leave but the deal that Theresa May has come up with is a bad deal. But as a country we opted to leave the EU.

"We should have sat back and waited for the EU to come to us. I put it in football terms. If it'd been Messi, you can make your own wage, make your own deal. think we've managed the last two particularly poorly and tonight will encompass that."

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Labour's Paul Sweeney says that "economic alienation" has caused many of the problems and anger in the UK. "The established structures in this country have failed to deliver" for so many people, he states.

Conservative Kirstene Hair says "no parliamentarian" was prepared for the immediate aftermath of a leave vote. She adds she will not accept "any extension of the transition period".

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Tory Mike Wood says he expected to resign as a PPS today in order to vote against the deal.

However, he says doing this would risk Brexit being stopped altogether, and he urges the government to achieve a better deal: "I will support that work."

SNP MP Joanna Cherry says the PM has "ignored the weight of expert evidence", as well as the assessments of her own government.

Scotland was lied to when it was told staying in the UK would keep it in the EU, she says.

She calls for another referendum on Scotland's independence, as well as another Brexit referendum.

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As MPs on both sides of the Brexit divide battle it out in the Commons ahead of the vote on Theresa May's deal, an even more passionate debate is going on across the road.

With fancy dress, lurid floats and colourful banners, there is something approaching a carnival atmosphere, as the usual ranks of pro and anti-Brexit demonstrators outside Parliament are swollen by people who have travelled to London for the big vote.

The two sides are mostly keeping a respectful distance from each other at the moment, as a low-key police presence tries to keep a right of way open for pedestrians.

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Labour's Karin Smyth says that the closeness of the vote in Bristol South is something she has struggled with. She adds that in private, Brexiteers cannot guarantee that the UK will be better off, but will instead have short term "uncertainty".

The government has treated the union of the UK "carelessly" she says.

Conservative Leo Docherty says he supports the deal, even though he voted to leave the EU.

"This deal is the only sane and sensible path to an orderly exit, that will allow us to reset our relations with the EU," he states.

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MPs begin to take their places in the Commons ahead of the final roundup of speeches concluding the withdrawal agreement debate.

Theresa May is expected to address MPs in the next half hour.

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Tory MP Caroline Johnson suggests "the referee has been changing the terms" - criticising the Speaker John Bercow for his actions in selecting amendments during the Brexit debate.

This prompts a response from the Speaker, who says he has only sought to facilitate debate.

SNP MP Neil Gray says he will vote against the deal because he respects the result of the vote in Scotland, something the prime minister has failed to do.

"[The PM's] biggest mistake was triggering Article 50 when she had not done her homework."

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Tory MP Sir Hugo Swire says he has "deep concerns about the whole process" and cannot vote to commit the country into a backstop from which "it has no unilateral right to withdraw".

"It is with a heavy heart that I will not be supporting the government this evening," he says, noting that he believes there is a deal to be done.

"This is not that deal," he concludes.

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Labour MP Adrian Bailey says the PM has failed to recognise the need to build a consensus and instead chose to adopt inflammatory language about the EU.

"By doing so, she alienated a body of people in this House and across the country from which she would need to get a consensus to get a deal that would be acceptable," he says.

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Conservative Andrew Murrison, whose amendment was not selected by the Speaker for MPs to vote on, says that he "genuinely feel[s] we may not have Brexit at all".

In 2006, people weren't being "thick or stupid or racist" when people wanted to leave, he says.

"They are sovereign, we serve them, let's get on with it," he finishes.

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Labour MP Jack Dromey says Jaguar Land Rover has produced 108,000 cars a year in the East Midlands - and that Brexit will have an adverse affect on the automotive industry in the UK "if we do not get it right".

"This is not a good deal but we have to get to a good deal that works for Britain and honours the referendum," Mr Dromey says, adding that he says "no to no-deal".

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Independent MP Ivan Lewis says today should be an historic day for the country, but he cannot support the deal.

Putting Brexit back to the people would be an "abdication of responsibility", and the only option that MPs can support is "Common Market 2".

Tory MP Damien Moore says government and Parliament need to respect the views of the British people, and while "division is healthy in democracy" a second referendum would "undermine the dignity in our democracy".

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Conservative MP Ranil Jayawardena says the deal is a "bad deal".

"Trust in politics remains at an all time low," he says, adding that trying to say that this would honour the referendum result would be dishonest with voters.

"I do want to secure a deal with the European Union, I continue to believe that we can still agree on one," he says.

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Lib Dem MP Tim Farron says he is used to losing elections and has never called for an election he has lost to be re-run.

However, he questions what it does for trust in politics if MPs force the people to accept a deal they do not want.

"Nobody here speaks for the majority of people - there is no majority," he says, saying that the only democratic way "through this appalling mess" is to give the people their say.

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Labour's Marsha de Cordova says MPs are being asked to approve "the same botched deal" which would reduce GDP by 3.9%, according to the government's own statistics.

All that has changed since the vote was pulled is that there is less time, she says.

The prime minister is trying to "hold the country to ransom," she says that "this is unacceptable".

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Conservative MP Crispin Blunt says thanks to the work of civil servants, in relation to the prospect of a no-deal "crashing out over a cliff edge is not going to happen".