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Conservative MP Anna Soubry says she believes that "the UK has made a terrible mistake in voting to leave".

She initially voted to trigger Article 50, she says, but now feels the only option is to put the decision back to the people in a so-called 'People's Vote'.

The deal is a bad deal and it must be voted against. It is not undemocratic to do so, she says, and a no-deal Brexit is not the only alternative.

Reality Check

The Attorney General and Conservative MP Ken Clarke have disagreed about whether Article 50 (the process which started the UK's two-year departure from the UK) could be cancelled - in order to give MPs more time to reach a consensus - and restarted later.

Geoffrey Cox told Mr Clarke that Article 50 could not be revoked unless "satisfactory evidence" was given to the EU to show the UK was ending the Brexit process altogether, rather than just pausing it.

So is Geoffrey Cox right?

It's true that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has granted the UK the power to independently stop the Brexit process. But its ruling also says that "revocation brings the withdrawal procedure to an end".

So if the UK tried to revoke Article 50 just to buy more time, the EU could argue such a move does not comply with the ECJ's ruling.

But if the EU rejected a revocation request on that basis it's unclear how it would enforce it, according to Joe Owen from the Institute for Government.

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Labour's Lisa Nandy says that she hasn't met a single MP who thinks that the Withdrawal Agreement has a chance of passing.

She says this is mostly down to an "absence of clarity" of what would happen next.

"We, collectively, have not risen to this challenge," she states, adding that some MPs are "pretending" that no-deal is not a legal reality.

She says that MPs should ask the public to "help us resolve this".

"Nearly three years after the referendum we cannot continue to lie to the people," she finishes.

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Tory MP Owen Paterson says "the people voted overwhelmingly to leave" and the deal does not deliver on what the Conservative party promised leaving the EU would mean.

"This is a betrayal of what the British people voted for," he says.

He says there is "absolutely no incentive" on the EU to reach a successful conclusion to future talks, and he says a "carve up" of Northern Ireland is "shameful" and a "complete breach" of the principle of consent.

He urges MPs to back a no-deal Brexit and the move onto World Trade Organisation terms.

Conservative MP Richard Benyon has described the scenes outside Parliament, external ahead of the crucial vote as "completely bizarre".

The demonstrations outside the Palace of Westminster have been both busy and loud.

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Conservative MP Justine Greening says the PM's deal satisfies neither side of the Brexit debate.

For the government not to recognise the opposition from MPs and then to blame them for not supporting the deal is "a bit like a person steering the Titanic into an iceberg and then blaming the iceberg for not getting out of the way".

It is a failure of the prime minister, but also a failure of the Labour leadership, she says.

And she adds that if MPs cannot find a solution then a second referendum should be considered.

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The Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesperson Tom Brake says the way Brexit is being handled is an "international embarrassment".

The country has been driven "to the brink" by Tory Brexiteers, he says.

The government must work on the "conditions" which led to people voting to leave, he says, adding that the government has never explained the benefits of the EU to the public enough.

This morning two boxes of doughnuts were delivered to Downing Street:

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Labour's Ben Bradshaw says that if the UK votes to leave the EU on the terms suggested then it'll be an act of "self harm" and that it is "increasingly obvious to everyone" that either the UK needs to be like Norway, or there needs to be a second referendum.

MPs have been trying to steer the government to the "least damaging Brexit", he says.

"It is too late" for Norway now, the rest of Europe has shown "commendable patience" with the UK, in offering an extension to Article 50 in the event of a referendum or general election.

"Labour must act," he adds.

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A football club's decision to post a 1,400-word article about Brexit has been called "weird", "embarrassing" and "slightly random".

Non-league side Boreham Wood posted an article entitled MPs do your duty , externalon its website on Tuesday ahead of a Parliamentary vote on the Brexit deal.

Comments on Twitter included telling the club to "stick to football".

However, others were in favour, and one said they "now support Boreham Wood".

Read more here.

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Conservative MP Dame Caroline Spelman says she will vote for the deal because "it is good enough".

It isn't perfect, she says, "but this isn't the time for taking a stand against the pragmatic reality of what is on the table."

The uncertainty around Brexit has already caused job losses in her Meriden constituency, she says, and the deal ends that uncertainty.

"We must stop the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal. There is a majority for no to no-deal in Parliament."

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Labour's Alison McGovern says she needs "no lectures on how to love my country".

She says that members of the Treasury select committee have found that "there is no dividend" for Brexit, and "there is only loss, there is no Brexit bonus".

She adds that the UK was not "prepared" for the referendum.

"The choice is ours now," she says. "Should we vote to make our constituents poorer?"

"People were offered something that was never really on the table and then asked to vote for it," she says, before adding that a second referendum is "probably the only way forward".

"We should be talking about how to fund libraries and teaching assistants, not Brexit," she adds.

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Conservative Shailesh Vara, who resigned from the government in opposition to the deal, rejects the idea that the UK must pay money to the EU before the future relationship has been agreed, criticising the "warm words" about the backstop.

"It is extraordinarily we are entering an unending backstop - temporary means many years," he says.

"France will access our coastal waters and Spain wants rights over Gibraltar. This is not a compromise, it is a cave in."

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Labour MP Stephen Doughty says the call to remain in the EU in his constituency has "increased in intensity" in the build up the the meaningful vote.

"People who voted to leave did so in good faith," he says. "We must listen to the concerns."

However, he adds he will not vote for a deal that makes people poorer and will reject the deal.

A second referendum would not be undemocratic, he says, "it is a continuation of democracy".

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Conservative MP Dominic Grieve says MPs have heard "everything" from calls of patriotism to talks of airlocks.

"We have been living in a false paradise in relation to expectations," he says.

He says about 20% of the British population support the deal, so it is "no surprise" that so few MPs want to support it.

He says a Norway option is the "elites picking up the carpet and brushing the glass under it" and says he "might be willing to support" the deal, had the public shown support for it.

He says he "very much" regrets that he cannot support the government.

If you're trying to work out exactly what happens if Theresa May's vote doesn't succeed - you're not alone.

The BBC has produced a visual guide to all the different possible outcomes.

Here's a rundown of all the different possible outcomes in more detail.

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DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he rejects the suggestion that Brexit threatens the Northern Ireland peace process.

His party does not advocate a no-deal Brexit, he says, but its members do not believe that the deal on the table is the best option for the UK.

The thing that "offends" him about the backstop is that he feels it means Britain has to treat Northern Ireland as a separate state.

"We need to see real change," he says, and until that his party will be voting against the agreement and against the amendments.