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The BBC's Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas says a vote in favour of Graham Brady's Brexit deal amendment will probably not persuade the EU to shift.

"The indications are that Brussels will say no - they don't want to reopen the withdrawal agreement.

"Graham Brady's amendment seeks to find alternative arrangements. The EU's view is that alternative arrangements have been discussed for well over a year - and there are no better options.

"Time limits and technology - none of those will work in the EU's view."

The DUP has been accused of telling people to "go to the chippy" if food shortages occurred in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The comment was made during a debate in the Commons on Tuesday on the next steps in the Brexit process.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said DUP MPs had "muttered" the remark as they sat behind her in Parliament.

DUP MP Gavin Robinson told the BBC the remark should "not be taken too seriously".

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She blinked.

Whatever else happens in the next two hours, Theresa May did what she previously said was impossible, and committed herself to try to reopen the divorce deal, the legal text negotiated over two years with 27 other countries.

After a fortnight of swearing it was not going to happen, her dire predicament and continued protest from Eurosceptics moved the prime minister to this point.

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MPs are now voting on former attorney general Dominic Grieve's amendment.

The amendment allows for six extra sitting days to allow business from backbench MPs.

This extra time would be able to be used to debate other business, such as another EU membership referendum or rejections of a no-deal exit.

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The government wins this vote too - the SNP amendment is defeated.

The votes are:

For: 39

Against: 327

Majority: 288

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Anand Menon, director of UK in a changing Europe, says the defeat of Labour's amendment should not come as a surprise.

"The parties are divided by Brexit but they are still parties so if Corbyn's name appears on an amendment the Tories are not going to vote for it even if they agree with some of the substance," he says.

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Speaking before the voting started, Labour's leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Smith of Basildon, called the current situation "absolutely extraordinary".

"The prime minister missed every deadline she set herself to get a deal," she said.

"Having been told [the withdrawal deal] couldn't be reopened, she's now trying to reopen it on something that the EU said they won't reopen it on."

Baroness Smith added: "You have to have a good deal to get behind. The PM has said time and time again that no deal is better than a bad deal. Now she's saying my deal is better than no deal but hasn't really given us what is a good deal. So much of this deal is uncertain.

"Yes we will get behind a good deal but we don't believe this is a good deal."

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SNP MP Ian Blackford moves his amendment (o), which MPs are now voting on.

The amendment is tabled by SNP and Plaid Cymru. It notes that Scotland and Wales voted against Brexit and calls on Theresa May to extend Article 50 and reject no-deal.

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The Labour amendment is defeated.

The votes came in at: 296 in favour but 327 against with a government majority of 31.

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With Brexit taking priority, you'd think MPs and their teams might not have had much time to update their social media stories.

But some have. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss - who this morning joined Mrs May's cabinet meeting - posted a picture of her sausage muffin, while for the opposition, Labour's shadow communities secretary shared what he was up to.

More recently, Labour's Stella Creasy shared a photo from inside the chamber of the House of Commons.

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The Commons have divided to vote on amendment a, the Labour frontbench amendment, which rejects the idea of a no-deal Brexit and calls for a "permanent customs union" with the EU.

The result is expected at around 7:15pm.

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Digby Jones, the Brexit-backing former boss of industry group the CBI, tells the BBC that delaying leaving the EU would be "a disgrace".

"It would be raising two parliamentary fingers to 17.4 million people", he says, referring to the numbers who voted Leave in the 2016 referendum.

He says it would "kick the can down the road" and just offer another three or four months of deadlock.

But he says he will not attempt to block the bill to prevent a no-deal Brexit by filibustering it, describing that as "an abuse of the parliamentary process".

Lord Jones denies that business is worried about a no-deal Brexit, however. "Brexit is not the worry, the uncertainty is the worry."

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Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says constitutional experts have said many of the amendments tabled this evening will have "international and domestic implications", and notes the House should be "careful" of the consequences of the amendments, as not much debate on them has been had.

The wider constitutional complications cannot be swept away in the short term convenience of the moment, he adds.

Mr Barlcay says the best way to avoid no-deal is to support Theresa May's deal.

He calls on MPs to back Graham Brady's amendment.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said at a press conference in Cyprus that the Brexit deal is the "best agreement possible and is not renegotiable".

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Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says: "It is time to establish what deal we want, and to offer certainty for businesses and citizens of this country."

Many of the amendments presented to the House "simply delay uncertainty" which is bad for businesses, he adds, noting that Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity "but cannot take a unified position himself".

The best alternative to no-deal is to back the prime minister's deal, Mr Barclay says.