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Conservative MP Julian Lewis says "this is a "Hotel California" Brexit deal which ensures "we can never truly leave the EU with all its manipulative entangling and undemocratic processes."

Theresa May again reiterates "we will be leaving the EU on the 29 March 2019".

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Labour MP Barry Sheerman says he "feels sorry for her" because the country and the Commons have given her impossible instructions, and that there is no deal that will be better than current arrangements. He asks for a second vote.

Mrs May says that it is "right and proper" that the Commons "delivers on the vote".

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Conservative Peter Bone picks up on the £39bn Brexit divorce bill, which he says the UK is not under any legal obligation to pay - and for which it will get "nothing in return".

The Brexiteer urges Theresa May to "use that money in this country".

However, in reply, the prime minister says she believes there is an obligation to pay, and the UK is a country that "abides by its international obligations".

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Antoinette Sandbach says "for many months this house was assured it would have the full future framework in front of it when it was voting on the withdrawal agreement".

She asks when MPs will see this framework document.

Theresa May says "we will be now entering into more intense negotiations with the EU so that the future framework can be published in full to MPs".

"While we cannot agree the legal text until we have left the European Union, we will have sufficient detail in that future framework so that members are able to have confidence in the future framework when we have that meaningful vote," she adds.

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Lib Dem Exiting the EU Spokesman Tom Brake says that this deal "is not in the national interests" and leaves the UK "isolated". Mr Brake, whose party opposes Brexit, asks what scenarios would "lead to no Brexit at all".

Mrs May says it "will not be the case" that the UK will be more isolated as the it will continue to "play its role" on the world stage.

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Labour's Liz Kendall says the agreement will mean "giving up our current say and influence" over the EU laws that are in effect in the UK. She asks how this is "taking back control".

Mrs May says the Commons has already agreed the transition period, and the future relationship will allow the UK to determine its own position.

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Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston says "we will be crashing out of the EU with no deal and no transition with catastrophic consequences".

The pro-Remain MP urges the prime minister to think about "whether we should go back to the people and present them with the options rather than just stumbling regardless into something that will have profound implications for all of our lives".

Theresa May says "I firmly believe that having given the choice as to whether we should leave the EU to the British people, it is our duty to carry this wish out."

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The UK and EU must agree an ultimate end date for the transition period by the end of next week, says the BBC's Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming.

The transition period is due to end in 2020 and can be extended once by mutual agreement.

But the text of the draft withdrawal agreement currently says the end date is "20XX".

A senior EU official said the negotiators will have to fill in a specific year by the time the final deal is endorsed by EU leaders at an emergency summit on 25 November.

The EU official also explicitly described the joint UK/EU customs territory envisaged in the backstop as a "customs union".

The official also confirmed that the withdrawal agreement was only agreed at the negotiator level and they couldn’t be “100% sure” that EU member states wouldn’t ask for changes - but those countries would be responsible for how that affected the process.

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Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Rachel Reeves - who backs a new referendum - asks if the Treasury believes the UK economy will grow faster or slower under the agreement, or under the current arrangements with the EU.

Mrs May says that the terms of the relationship are subject to the current negotiations. She adds that the Commons will have the information it needs to make an informed choice.

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Conservative MP Stephen Crabb says "there was always going to come a difficult moment when the theory of a perfect Brexit was met with the harsh reality".

Stephen Crabb, a man who knows about resigning from government, calls on the prime minister to not resign.

Theresa May says "this is a complex negotiation and it requires difficult choices to be made".

"We must make those choices pragmatically in the interest of the British people."

There's been much debate about who's in the House and who's not. Labour MP for Pontypridd tweets:

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Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames - who opposed Brexit - congratulates the prime minister on achieving a draft text of the deal "in difficult circumstances" and asks the prime minister to elaborate on the agreed deal in relation to security.

Theresa May says "we will have an independent foreign policy but we have negotiated an ability for the United Kingdom, where it makes sense to do so, to work with our European partners on matters of security and defence".

"At all times we will act in the best interests of the UK."

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Independent MP Frank Field - who backed Leave in 2016 - asks for guarantees that at the end of March the UK will have "frictionless supply chains" and that the UK will be "free" from the jurisdiction of the ECJ.

Mrs May says that the future relationship the UK is negotiating will "absolutely deliver" on this.

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Conservative MP Amber Rudd says "millions of people voted for Brexit because they are anxious about their futures, children and families" and says "we must remember these communities today".

Ms Rudd - who was one of the faces of the Remain campaign - says "it is these people who will be the most affected by a no deal" and asks what the prime minister is doing to secure jobs.

The prime minister says "we have been speaking to businesses and have focused on that frictionless trade across borders".

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Also speaking at the press conference, the European Parliament's Brexit spokesman Guy Verhofstadt says he “really regrets” Brexit and hopes the UK will "one day come back into the European family”.

He describes the draft withdrawal deal as “the best agreement we could obtain” given both the UK's red lines and their need to protect the "integrity" of the EU.

He confirms that MEPs will set out a detailed reaction to the withdrawal agreement in the next two months, with their “final say” coming “at the beginning of next year”.

He warns that the European Parliament will scrutinise how the Home Office intends to implement the pledges on citizens' rights before it ratifies the final deal.

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Former leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas said the PM knows her deal "is never going to get through the Commons" and that no deal would be "an unmitigated disaster".

The MP said: "We now risk chaos – job losses, businesses going under, crisis for our NHS, families divided and environmental rules torn up. That was never the will of the people.

"This isn’t a parlour game for the Westminster class. MPs are playing with people’s real lives.

"At this moment of conscience we must put aside party politics. Parliament must give control back to the public and deliver a People’s Vote."