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It will be for the UK to make new proposals if MPs reject the Brexit deal, French President Emmanuel Macron says.

"I cannot speculate on the British vote," he says. "In this case it is very clear that it will be up to Great Britain to make proposals.

"But it is our responsibility to be prepared for all options. That is what we have done."

On fishing rights, he says "all of our fishermen will be protected", with the French planning to "defend access as part of the indispensable balance".

Access to British waters for EU fishermen will be "a key point of future negotiations", he says.

He added: "It's not a day when we should celebrate, nor a day of mourning. It is the choice of a sovereign people."

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, responding to the EU summit, says the deal reached by Theresa May is "a bad deal for the country".

"It is the result of a miserable failure of negotiations that leaves us with the worst of all worlds."

His party will be opposing the deal when it is put to MPs, he says, but will work with others to "block" a no deal outcome.

Instead, they'll be pushing Labour's alternative plan for a "sensible" deal that protects worker and consumer rights, as well as environmental protections.

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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has very much pushed the EU line that the deal reached is the only deal and it will not be reopened or renegotiated.

From Ireland's perspective, he said the deal was the "next best outcome" to the UK remaining in the EU.

Those who think a better deal is available don't even agree among themselves what that deal would be, he said. "Anybody can have a better deal or alternative deal in their own minds."

Both passionate Remainers and Leavers needed to know that there was no better deal available, he added.

Asked about a scenario in which the deal was rejected by MPs in the House of Commons, he said the EU27 had made a "conscious decision" not to discuss it. He said he believed the "pressure of time" would help Theresa May as decision day approached and no deal loomed.

And he warned against doing anything to help Mrs May in her attempts to convince MPs about the deal: "We need to be careful and sensitive about any political interventions... it's a decision for the UK Parliament."

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Speaking earlier today on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss warned of the risks of a second referendum if Theresa May’s Brexit deal does not go through Parliament.

"There is a risk, which is being stoked up by the Labour Party and the SNP, of Britain not Brexiting at all," she said.

Asked if she was worried a second referendum could vote to remain, she said: "If we don't get through and support the deal that's on the table, I fear there are a whole range of extremely unpalatable possibilities that could emerge.

"There are people who are talking about the extension of Article 50, which I strongly, strongly disagree with as well. Those things might not happen, but the position we're in at the moment is that there could be a risk of them happening, and I don't think that is a risk worth taking.

"I think the deal that we've got on table, whilst not perfect, is good enough to get us to the status of sovereign nation, and we’ve got to be very careful about risking that in trying to make the perfect the enemy of the good."

She clarified that she thought Leave would still win another referendum, but was worried because of the economic uncertainty and distrust another vote would create.

Gibraltar's constitutional status "will not change", the Prime Minister has insisted.

"In future negotiations, I will be negotiating for the whole UK family, including Gibraltar," Theresa May told a Spanish journalist.

It follows suggestions by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that recent wrangling over the issue, ahead of Sunday's withdrawal agreement, had put Spain "in a position of strength" regarding the British territory.

Asked whether, if this is the best deal for the UK and there is no alternative available, the prime minister would feel duty bound to resign if MPs voted to reject the deal, the prime minister insists: "This isn't about me".

Her focus now is making the case for the deal that has been reached, she says.

The Prime Minister said she was "not sad to be leaving" the EU, but she recognised that other European leaders are, as are many people in the UK.

Theresa May said she was "full of optimism" about the next stage of the UK's future.

She added that the UK would "continue to have a good, close partnership" with European partners.

"There should not be that second referendum," Theresa May told the media.

"The public would expect parliament to vote on the deal. For most people in the UK they want a deal done and want us to get on with focusing more clearly on the issues that matter to them day to day."

Asked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg if anyone is actually pleased by the deal between the UK and the EU, the prime minister insists that "this is a good deal for the whole of the United Kingdom".

She says it delivers for the British people, delivers on the Brexit vote and protects jobs and livelihoods.

Minutes of Sunday's European Council meeting show "a fisheries agreement is a matter of priority, and should build on... existing reciprocal access and quota shares".

Many EU countries, notably France and the Netherlands, are concerned about how the UK's departure from the European Union will affect fishing quotas.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is not impressed.

She called on Scottish Secretary David Mundell to justify his backing for Theresa May's Brexit deal, claiming he won't be able to honour earlier promises to the Scottish fishing industry under the terms of the agreement.

The Prime Minister has said the withdrawal deal will set the UK free from the Common Fisheries Policy.

Theresa May says today marks the culmination of talks with the EU, but also the start of a "crucial national debate".

MPs will vote whether to support the deal before Christmas, she says.

Theresa May says the Brexit deal will give the UK "an immigration system based not on where people come from, but on skills and talents".

It is also "an end to vast annual payments being sent to the EU," she told a news conference after the Brussels summit.

She says it will spell "an end to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK".

The UK will be leaving the EU Common Agricultural and Common Fisheries policies completely, she says.

"The UK will be an independent coastal state once again, with full sovereign control of our waters."

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Theresa May, giving a press conference after the EU agreed to back the withdrawal agreement, says there were some that questioned whether a deal that worked for both sides was possible.

"I rejected that council of despair", she says.