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Conservative MP John Baron is one of those whose amendment has been chosen by the speaker to be put to a vote.

It would give the UK the right to terminate the Northern Ireland backstop without the agreement of the EU.

He says if the EU knew the UK had the right to unilaterally exit the backstop it would "focus their minds on negotiating constructively”.

While he says he can't support Theresa May's deal in its current form, he would if his amendment passed and he has had "a lot of encouraging words" from other MPs since it was chosen.

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Conservative and Remain supporter Nicky Morgan says "this is only the end of phase one".

"Today's debate should be about the Withdrawal Agreement," she states.

"This House is really in danger of getting so bogged down in the detail that we forget that the country is looking at us," she adds.

Parliament needs to "change the tone" in order to be able to "heal the divisions," she says.

"There is a vast, vast silent majority out there in the country" who are hoping that MPs do approve the agreement, she states.

She says the UK has put its constitution under "massive strain" by having one referendum.

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The New York Times is watching events in the UK and is trying to get its head around the machinations of what could happen next?

For those wondering, a Hail Mary, external is an American football term for a very long pass, made in desperation.

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Labour Brexiteer Kate Hoey says she will vote against the withdrawal agreement "with sadness".

She says she is one of the very few Labour MPs who "genuinely" wants to leave the EU.

She says she is one of the few that respects the referendum result, "and I include [Jeremy Corbyn] in that".

"What happened to the mantra of nothing is agreed until everything is agreed?", she asks, "why are we giving the £39bn?"

She criticises the government, which she says claims the deal to be a "pragmatic" Brexit. The vote didn't ask whether people wanted "a pragmatic leave or a pragmatic remain", she says, "the people voted to leave".

"Let us go forward to March the 29th, leave the European Union and have that bright future which we know is ahead of us."

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Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab says the deal involves "the most severe and enduring risk for our democracy, economy and stifles opportunities of Brexit".

He says the Northern Ireland backstop is "undemocratic", and the deal would be the UK "giving up control" to the EU.

The EU would wield all the negotiating leverage in further negotiations, Mr Raab adds, noting the deal is "so demeaning it would torment us for the foreseeable future".

He says what he fears most is "the drain the deal would have on our economy", and that he will not sign up to that.

"The deal is racked with self-doubt, defeatism and fear," Mr Raab says, noting that he votes for Brexit but not for this deal.

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5 Live reporter Lesley Ashmall is in Ramsgate. She's been speaking to Darren and Stella who both voted Leave.

Darren says: "I'm not fed up with it all, I'd just like to see all the MPs actually back what the country voted for. At the end of the day, if they don't back what everybody wanted in a majority vote, then this country's a joke... If there's a new vote, and it stays as it is, then they're still going to moan and complain. Get on board."

Darren says there could be positives for Ramsgate from a no deal Brexit: "We've got a port there that's sat there for years, if we're looking at worldwide imports and exports, there's an opportunity there to make good business."

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Labour MP Hilary Benn, who chairs the Brexit select committee, says the House of Commons has to decide what should happen next, and not just reject options.

"It is now inevitable that Article 50 will need to be extended, whichever option the House chooses," he says.

The vote to leave came as a shock to many MPs, he says, but it would not be a surprise to those who voted to leave, who had been left behind by government.

This would not be solved by a "damaging Brexit", he warns, and responsibility now is for MPs to work together to find an acceptable alternative to the deal.

If MPs are unable to make a decision, he says someone else must and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there must be another referendum.

Crowds of protesters have gathered outside Parliament to make their views heard, captured here by BBC journalist Emma Harrison.

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Conservative Brexiteer Suella Braverman MP says she will vote against the government's deal because "it is not Brexit".

"Sadly, it brings me no pleasure to, but I will be voting against the deal tonight," she told the BBC's Afternoon Live.

"I'm voting against this deal because I've got the power in my hands to do so.

"It is not Brexit. It does not guarantee us to get out of the single market, to take back control over our laws and ... we do not have even firm promises on ending free movement."

More than 55% of voters in Mrs Braverman's constituency, Fareham, opted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.

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Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, has been speaking in parliament in Dublin about this evening's vote.

The Irish government discussed no-deal contingency plans at Cabinet on Tuesday morning - but he said he still believed a no-deal was unlikely.

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5 Live presenter Emma Barnett has been asking: Do you blame Theresa May for the state of Brexit – or was it an impossible job?

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Tory Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash says the 1972 European Community Act (which established the UK's membership of the then-EEC) must be fully repealed on 29 March.

"We will not have fully left the EU if we are not in control of our own laws," he adds. "This agreement does not do this despite breathtaking assurances to the contrary."

Sir Bill says the deal will leave the UK "indefinitely shackled" to the EU, and is "a denial of our democracy and the national interest". He says for this reason he will not be supporting the deal.

"This deal is not compromise; it is capitulation," he adds, noting that the EU "is in tatters as the euro stagnates".

He calls for the government to walk away from the EU when the deal fails to pass through the Commons this evening.

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Green MP Caroline Lucas says there's "enormous frustration" in Parliament that the government isn't listening to the concerns of opposition MPs.

“We’ve just had the Attorney General speak for over an hour, not really addressing the concerns of those who don’t support Theresa May’s deal, focusing solely on his own backbenches," she tells BBC News.

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Tulip Siddiq realised back in November that the crucial vote might well clash with her birth plan.

She spoke to Victoria Derbyshire then about why she didn't trust the pairing system.