Former Conservative MP Nick Boles, who quit the party over Brexit, asks Mr Cox whether the government will comply with the law and implement the Benn Act.

That's the law MPs passed requiring the government to request an extension if a Brexit deal has not been agreed by 19 October.

Mr Cox says it will, as BBC political correspondent Iain Watson notes.

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The party calls on other opposition leaders to unite around a no confidence motion that would remove Boris Johnson from office.

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The temperature is rising in the Commons.

Veteran Labour MP Barry Sheerman says he came to the Parliament feeling sorry for the attorney general but the government's top lawyer has shown "no shame" about the government's cynical manipulation of Parliament.

Visibly shaking with anger, he says. "To come here with his barrister's bluster, to obsfucate the truth, and for a man like him for a party like this and for a leader like this to talk about morals and morality, is a disgrace".

In response, Mr Cox says he struggles to find a question amid the "marshmallow rhetoric" and says the public should make a decision in a general election.

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The Lib Dems would vote for a Brexit deal brought to Parliament by Boris Johnson if it is tied to a fresh referendum, MP Layla Moran told the BBC’s Politics Live programme.

She said: “If that deal was tied to a ratification referendum with the option to remain then we would support it. If he wants to bring that to us now, we’re there.”

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Geoffrey Cox QC says he will consider disclosing some of his legal advice to the prime minister on the five-week prorogation.

He's the government's top law officer - which means ministers seek his advice on issues that could land them in court.

The advice is currently private because of the principle that ministers must be able to receive "frank and full" advice in confidence - the political equivalent of the rule that guarantees each of us can speak confidentially to a lawyer on sensitive matters.

So it doesn't matter if someone is accused of a criminal or constitutional smash-and-grab - everyone has the same right to confidential advice before a scrap in court.

In political terms, the convention is baked into the rules of Parliament and Whitehall. But it can be bent if the "public interest" in publishing is paramount. The most important example of that was the release of the legal advice given to Tony Blair before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

There's a full guide , externalto the topic on Parliament's website.

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The session has been relatively restrained so far but there is uproar after Geoffrey Cox suggests this Parliament is "dead" and has "no moral right" to sit.

He says the government has no majority, MPs have blocked a Brexit deal three times, but the opposition has voted twice to block a general election.

"This Parliament is a disgrace," he says.

He says opposition MPs, who he describes as a "spineless gang", "don't like to hear the truth" but they won't be able to resist facing the electorate for ever.

"There is a time coming when even these turkeys won't be able to prevent Christmas."

Some explanation from Downing Street on why the prime minister's statement was not the first one listed.

He has "literally just landed back" from New York after travelling through the night and "he'll obviously want to work on his statement", a Number 10 spokeswoman said.

Downing Street did not confirm whether the Queen's Speech was still planned for 14 October.

"The prime minister will, in his statement, address some of these issues," the spokeswoman said, adding: "You will have to wait for the PM to set out further details on the next steps later."

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Independent MP Anna Soubry raises the question of whether the cabinet saw the legal advice - a controversial issue given that former work and pension secretary Amber Rudd has claimed she asked for it and it was not forthcoming.

Mr Cox says he has "never denied any sight" of the legal advice to "anyone" but he cannot speak for anyone else.

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Sir Oliver Letwin, one of the Tory grandees who lost the whip over Brexit, asks the attorney general for a guarantee there will be no further attempt to suspend Parliament, other than a break for a handful of days to pave the way for a Queen's Speech.

Mr Cox says he can guarantee that there will be no further attempt at prorogation that does not "comply" with the Supreme Court ruling.

That's not the answer Sir Oliver was looking for and it does not please many MPs if the reaction is anything to go by.

Nicholas Watt
Political editor, BBC Newsnight

Intriguing from Geoffrey Cox - if Parliament had been prorogued from the beginning of September until 31 October, he tells MPs that "I could not have remained in the cabinet".

It's intriguing because a cabinet member told me shortly before Boris Johnson became prime minister that his original prorogation plan was for it to take place from mid-October until a Queen’s speech in November.

So Parliament would not be sitting during the current Brexit deadline of 31 October to ensure it could not block no-deal.

Number 10 has always insisted that prorogation had nothing to do with Brexit. But do Geoffrey Cox’s remarks today indicate he killed off the original prorogation plan that was outlined to me in July?

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In response to a question from Lib Dem MP Sarah Wollaston, Geoffrey Cox warns people, including MPs, against "impugning" the motivations of the Supreme Court justices or any members of the judiciary.

"With the judgements we can be robustly critical, with the motivations we cannot."

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Mr Cox is asked whether he believes the Supreme Court ruling was a "constitutional coup" - a phrase Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is reported to have used on Tuesday.

The government's top lawyer says he does not believe that and does not think that anyone would take that view.

If anyone used that kind of language, he suggests it would only be in the "heat of rhetorical and poetical licence".

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Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general who lost the Tory whip after rebelling over Brexit last month, says the partial leaking of details of Mr Cox's legal advice to the media in recent days was regrettable.

He raises comments he says Mr Cox made in July, when the issue of prorogation was first mooted, suggesting he thought it would be "unconstitutional".

In reply, Mr Cox says there was talk in the summer of Parliament being suspended throughout September and October - so MPs would not be sitting at all in the run-up to the 31 October Brexit date.

If that had been attempted, he says he "could not have stayed in the cabinet".

The Commons has resumed with questions to the government on the Attorney General's legal advice to the government on whether Parliament should have been suspended.

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

A very different tone from Attorney General Geoffrey Cox to that of the Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees Mogg on the Supreme Court.

"One of the finest judiciaries in the world," Mr Cox said.