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Brexit Secretary David Davis says he believes the Great Repeal Bill, which would end EU law's primacy in the UK, will be mentioned in the Queen's Speech.

Conservative Julian Lewis asks if the government intends to support a soft or hard Brexit.

Mr Davis said he views hard and soft Brexit as terms of propaganda.

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Labour's Yvette Cooper asks the Brexit secretary to say when Parliament will get a vote on ruling out the UK being in the customs union.

Mr Davis said there will be votes on a range of issues. "I'm quite sure there will be votes on that subject area in the next two years," he said.

Former Conservative minister Anna Soubry said the UK had abandoned the single market and the free movement of people "without any debate".

"We are leaving the European Union, that is accepted," she said.

"I would like a White Paper that we could debate - it will bring us all together. What have you got to lose on a White Paper?"

Mr Davis said a large part of the prime minister's speech had been on "creating a sense of this country which everyone can get behind". He said she had been very clear about a future approach.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot begin the formal process of leaving the European Union without a vote in Parliament. 

Ministers had appealed against an earlier High Court decision, arguing that they already had the authority to trigger Article 50. The businesswoman Gina Millar - who led the legal challenge against the government - said the ruling meant that MPs would rightfully have a say on Brexit. 

The government has promised draft legislation within days and in the past half hour, the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has told MPs that today's ruling would not derail the government's plans to trigger Article 50 before the end of March.

Labour has said it won't frustrate the process - but wants MPs to vote on the deal the government agrees with the EU - before it is signed off. 

Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said she is "disappointed" that the Supreme Court ruled that ministers do not need to consult the devolved administrations before triggering Article 50.

Ms Sturgeon said it showed the devolution settlement was "not worth the paper it was written on". The Welsh government said it welcomed today's judgement - adding it was vital that Theresa May reflected the interests of Wales in her Brexit negotiations.

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Former Conservative leader and prominent Leave campaigner Iain Duncan Smith urges the Brexit secretary to ensure the Article 50 bill goes through "swiftly" - a demand Mr Davis said he was happy to agree to.

Labour's Hilary Benn, chair of the Exiting the EU committee, added his voice to requests for the government to produce a White Paper.

Mr Davis said the government has not avoided answering any questions from Mr Benn's committee or Labour's front bench apart from those that would undermine the UK's negotiating strategy.

• THE 1972 Act that took the UK into the then EEC creates a process by which EU law becomes a source of UK law. 
• So long as that act remains in force, it means that EU law is an “independent and overriding source” of our legal system. 
• Unless Parliament decides otherwise, this remains the case 
• Withdrawal from the EU makes a fundamental change to the UK’s constitutional arrangements because it will cut off the source of EU law. 
• Such a fundamental change will be the inevitable effect of a Notice being served
• The UK constitution requires such changes can only be made by Parliament 
• The fact that withdrawal from the EU would remove some existing domestic rights of UK residents also renders it impermissible for the Government to withdraw from the EU Treaties without prior Parliamentary authority.

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The SNP's Stephen Gethins asked why the government "fears parliamentary scrutiny".

"Let me remind you of this, that when it comes to Scotland the Conservatives got the worst result in the general election since 1865  - you have one MP," he said.

He urged Mr Davis to concede that no powers will be returned from the Scottish parliament  to Westminster.

The Brexit secretary replied that there willl be no powers existing in the devolved administrations that will come back.

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Brexit Secretary David Davis, in response to Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, said the prime minister was aiming to carry out the will of the people - all 17.5 million of them.

He said he had always promised to give the Commons as much information as possible, subject to not undermining the government's negotiating position.

He argued against retaining membership of the single market, because to have this "you have to give up" control of Britain's borders, laws and rules.

He countered accusations that the court process had been a waste of time, saying one of the reasons for seeing it through was to get "the most authoritative and clearest guidance of a major part of our constitution".

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Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, responding in the Commons to the Supreme Court judgement on the triggering of Article 50: "This is a good day for parliamentary sovereignty."

He said the government had been "wrong to attempt to sideline Parliament in this process".

He said the stakes "are high" in getting the best deal for the UK, adding that the government needs to introduce a White Paper, setting out its objectives for triggering Article 50.

Referring to the High Court and Supreme Court cases, he said: "What a waste of money."

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