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Former Labour leadership candidate Angela Eagle asks if Parliament, and the British people, will "get a say on the deal that is done".

David Davis says his views on the importance of "parliamentary accountability have not changed since he left the backbenches".

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Former Conservative Cabinet minister Owen Paterson says when countries such as India became independent, they accepted all UK laws onto the Indian statue book before methodically going through them to abolish ones they did not want. 

He asks if the UK can do the same with large amounts of EU law to speed up the process for leaving the EU.

David Davis says originally he thought that, but it is not quite that straightforward, because of the way EU laws interacts with UK law.

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David Davis says the EU cannot stop the UK talking to other countries about trade deals.

Talks are already taking place, as "there is nothing illegal" about new International Trade Secretary Liam Fox putting in the groundwork, Mr Davis says.

The only thing the UK cannot do is agree those deals.

He says he has studied Article 50, and it is clear it does not prevent parallel trade talks taking place as withdrawal is being negotiated.

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Minister for Exiting the EU Lord Bridges of Headley is repeating a statement given earlier in the Commons by David Davis. 

He told MPs that "Britain is leaving the European Union," and the mandate for Brexit was "overwhelming".

He insisted there would be no attempt to "delay, frustrate or thwart" the will of the people, to engineer a second referendum or to avoid Brexit.

He also said Brexit does not mean ending the UK's relationship with Europe, but starting a new one.

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Questioned over the timing of triggering Article 50 - the formal mechanism for leaving the EU - David Davis says it will be done "as soon as is reasonably possible", adding that the government "will do so as expeditiously as possible".

Earlier, while speaking at the G20 summit, PM Theresa May repeated that it would not be triggered before the end of the year but declined to give any other timing clues.

The Lib Dems are quick out of the blocks to criticise David Davis's Brexit Commons statement. Leader Tim Farron - via a written press release rather than speaking in the Commons - said the secretary of state offered only "warm words and hot air".

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Labour's Yvette Cooper, a former shadow home secretary, says David Davis has offered "nothing" by way of detail for a Brexit roadmap. Seeking further detail, she asks whether the UK government will remain part of EU home affairs co-operation,including whether it will stay in Europol, a decision she says that has to be taken this year.

Brexit Secretary David Davis says the government's aim is to "preserve the relationship with the EU on security matters as best we can".

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Former Conservative cabinet minister and pro-EU MP Ken Clarke urges David Davis, somewhat "to take as long as he possibly can" to work out the government's position on Brexit and what it means - no doubt to stall Brexit from taking place.

Mr Clarke goes on to raise concerns about "anti-foreigner rhetoric" in the campaign and says the government shouldn't "needlessly sacrifice access to the single market just to demonstrate that we're turning away foreigners from this country that we wish to employ".

David Davis agrees with Mr Clarke that such rhetoric was to be "wholly condemned" but he says he does not think that wider concerns about immigration are xenophobic, nor that immigration control should preclude a good trade relationship with the EU. 

The prime minister and the first minister are now dealing with the consequences of the expression of democracy which was the EU referendum.

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Ms Thornberry concludes by calling for a parliamentary vote on triggering Article 50.

The idea that a government could take a decision of such magnitude without parliamentary approval is "just plain wrong", she says.

And if Mr Davis was still on the backbenches, he would agree, Ms Thornberry argues.

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Former cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith, who campaigned to leave the EU, welcomes David Davis's "optimistic tone" on Brexit. With Theresa May ruling out a points-based immigration system - often advocated by Leave campaigners - he seeks confirmation that the UK will take control of its borders and immigration policy post-Brexit, and that this will not be up for negotiation in the Brexit process.

The Brexit secretary, in reply, says immigration was a key question in the referendum and the government has made clear that "the current status of immigration cannot go on and we will bring it to an end as a part of this process".

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Responding to David Davis's statement, shadow Brexit secretary Emily Thornberry says the government has no strategy or thought out plan for Brexit and says all that is on offer is "more empty platitudes from a government that continues to make it up as it goes along".

"Two months on (from the referendum result) and we are no further forward. When it comes to planning for Brexit they have gone from gross negligence to rank incompetence," she adds, and says it is British workers who will "pay the price".

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The vote to leave the EU on 23 June was "a clear sign" the majority of people wanted to see parliamentary sovereignty "strengthened", says David Davis, who pledges to keep Parliament regularly engaged in and updated on the Brexit process.

On the status of EU nationals, he reiterates the government's aim of guaranteeing their rights to stay in the UK post Brexit, but he says the government must also secure a reciprocal deal for UK citizens living in EU countries.

He concludes:

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David Davis, who is flanked by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - the other two of the so-called Three Brexiteers, says the government is "not complacent" and will negotiate a Brexit deal that is in the national interest.

"We want a steadfast and a successful European Union after we depart and so as we proceed we will be guided by some clear principles," the Brexit secretary says, including:

• to build a national consensus around the UK's position
• to put the national interest first and act in good faith to EU partners
• where possible, to minimise any uncertainty
• to leave the EU and put the sovereignty of this Parliament beyond doubt.

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Brexit Secretary David Davis is making a statement on the groundwork the government has done over the summer and its plans on leaving the EU.

Theresa May has announced the government would work for a "unique" deal for the UK which included controls on EU migration as well as a "positive outcome" on trade, last week.

Mr Davis actually wrote a long article for the website Conservative Home on what he thought the government should do only days before his appointment as Brexit secretary. 

You can read it in full here, external,   

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Brexit Secretary David Davis is making his first statement to the Commons, to sketch out the government's plans for leaving the EU.

"Britain is leaving the European Union," he declares, saying the mandate for Brexit was "overwhelming".

To a somewhat heckle-happy chamber, he says there'll be no attempt to "delay, frustrate or thwart" the will of the people, to engineer a second referendum or to avoid Brexit by the back door, he adds.

Brexit means the UK "will decide on our borders, our laws and taxpayers' money", he says.

And he tells MPs it means getting the "best deal" for Britain - including controls on migration from the EU and a "positive" trade outcome.

Brexit does not mean ending the UK's relationship with Europe, but starting a new one, he adds.