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Anna Soubry, a pro-EU Conservative MP, says she will continue to make the case for single market membership and "to make the case for the free movement of people".

But the former minister welcomes the prime minister's speech. "I nearly said her majesty," she says, to laughter.

"The tone is to be hugely welcomed," Ms Soubry tells the Commons, adding that Mrs May is showing a "genuine desire to bring about a consensus".

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The SNP's Peter Grant says the UK government has broken promises to protect Scotland's interests.

He says UK ministers argued that remaining in the UK was the only way to "guarantee Scotland's place in Europe" during the independence referendum campaign.

And he adds that, if a second independence referendum is the only way to guarantee Scotland's interests, "Scotland will take that option".

David Davis tells him he would be "surprised how pro-devolution I am" and insists that Scotland's interests will be taken "very, very seriously" and will those of Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Sir Keir Starmer tells the Commons that Labour's aims for the UK's exit from the European Union include the "fullest possible access to the single market", transitional arrangements and protection of workers' rights.

He says the prime minister "has rightly accepted" these aims but given little detail about how these might be achieved.

He accuses Theresa May of having "a half-in, half-out plan" - to a noisy response from Tory MPs.

Sir Keir gives an example. He says that the government wants to end the jurisdisdiction of the European Court of Justice and to have a comprehensive trade agreement.

However, any such trade deal will have "a disputes resolution clause" which would be "independent" of UK courts, he argues.

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Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow exiting the EU secretary, says Theresa May has given "the most important speech she has ever made".

The Labour MP tells the House of Commons: "The place for such a speech is here."

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has told BBC Radio 5 live the government will try to maintain the United Kingdom's open border with the Republic of Ireland, but it will have "some sort of controls" after Brexit.

In her speech, Prime Minister Theresa May said maintaining the Common Travel Area would be a priority during Brexit negotiations, but that nobody wanted "a return to the borders of the past". 

Ms Rudd told 5 live's Afternoon Edition: "We know it's going to be one of the big challenges in our negotiations with leaving the EU and with the Republic of Ireland."What I can say, is all the parties involved want us to have an open border so that we have some sort of controls, but not the sort of border that we've had in the past. As the prime minister said, the Common Travel Area predates us joining the European Union and we will find a way of maintaining it."

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"No deal is better than a bad deal," David Davis tells MPs, adding that the UK does not expect "a punitive approach" from other EU states.

"We understand the EU wants to protect its four freedoms and chart its own course," he adds.

And the Brexit secretary confirms to the Commons that a final deal between the UK and the EU will be "put to a vote in both Houses of Parliament before it takes effect".

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Brexit Secretary David Davis says the government wants the UK to be a "confident, global trading nation", in his statement to the House of Commons.

He tells MPs that the UK does not want to remain subject to rulings by the European Court of Justice.

Immigrants will be welcome to fill "skills shortages", he says, but repeats the assertion that, as one of the four "key freedoms" of the single market is the free movement of people, the UK cannot remain a member.

Instead, the UK seeks "the broadest possible access to it through a comprehensive trade agreement with the EU".

Some of the headlines from Theresa May's vision for future UK-EU relations.

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Before David Davis's Brexit statement begins, Labour MP Stephen Doughty attacks Theresa May for not making her Brexit speech to the Commons.

"Churchill would not have done it. Thatcher would not have done it," he says, adding: "This lady's not for turning up."

Speaker John Bercow says this has been "a recurring phenomenon in recent decades" but adds that Exiting the EU Secretary David Davis is here to make a statement.

Mr Davis tells the opposition he "spent many years sitting on those benches" hoping for the chance "of interrogating Mr Tony Blair" after he had made a statement to the media.

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been talking about the PM's speech on BBC Radio 4's World at One.

She says a system of work permits for EU citizens after Brexit is "one option we are looking at, but it is only one option".

She suggests that any new immigration system would be phased in to ensure a "smooth exit for us and a smooth exit for us".

Asked what will happen if Parliament vetoed the final Brexit settlement, she insists ministers will make the case for the deal when it was completed and she was only contemplating "winning the vote". 

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UKIP leader Paul Nuttall says the prime minister's speech on Brexit was "a good start" but he has concerns that the time-frame is too long.

Speaking in Strasbourg, he said there was a lot in Theresa May's speech that was quite positive and that it sounded a bit like a UKIP conference speech in some ways.

However Mr Nuttall said he was a "a bit concerned" that there was little in the speech about specific industries such as fishing and he had fears that this would be a "slow-motion Brexit".

As for his predecessor Nigel Farage...

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The German foreign minister has welcomed Mrs May's speech, saying "finally we have a little bit more clarity" about the UK's intentions vis a vis Brexit although pointing out there was still no "formalised version". 

Walter Steinmeier said it was good that Mrs May was keen to stress the importance of a positive and constructive relationship but there remained a lot to be hammered out. 

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SNP MP Margaret Ferrier says Northern Ireland faces being left "in total political limbo" while the UK government triggers Article 50 to leave the EU.

James Brokenshire restates the government's aim to trigger Article 50 by the end of March, beginning a two-year negotiation process to leave the EU.

Earlier he said that other ministers, besides the first and deputy first ministers, remain in place and will be invited to make representations on Brexit talks.

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Former Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan has said it is "disappointing" the Prime Minister has confirmed the UK will leave the European single market.

Mrs Morgan said the single market had been "hugely beneficial" to the country but the government had decided that leaving was the "path to be adopted" to control immigration.

Mrs Morgan said: "It's right to have control on immigration, that's what people want to see, but we also have to recognise that many of our industries... rely on people coming from overseas and that must continue otherwise we're going to undermine those services."

She praised Mrs May for placing "great emphasis on trade" and said she had struck "exactly the right tone" by talking about deals and partnerships.

Responding to the prime minister's remark that no deal would be better than a bad deal with the EU, Mrs Morgan said that in those circumstances, the government would need to explain very clearly to the country why it would be better to walk away rather than accept the deal on the table.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed Theresa May's statement that Parliament will get a vote on the final Brexit settlement.

But he has criticised what he said was an "implied threat" running through Mrs May's speech that the UK would adopt a different, low-tax economic model if it did not get what it wanted.

He said the opposition would continue to make a case "for market access to Europe and regulation of labour markets".