Summary

  • PM facing MPs in the Commons amid rowdy scenes

  • He says the Supreme Court ruling was "wrong" and attacks opposition MPs for trying to block Brexit

  • Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calls on Mr Johnson to do "the honourable thing" and resign

  • Judges found Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks broke the law

  • Earlier, Attorney General said government acted in good faith, but angrily attacked "this dead Parliament"

  • House has also discussed no-deal readiness

  1. Corbyn: PM should have resignedpublished at 18:50 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    Mr Corbyn says: "The judges concluded there was no reason 'let alone a good reason' to have shut down Parliament.

    "After yesterday's ruling the prime minister should have done the honourable thing and resigned.

    "Yet here he is, forced back to this house... with no shred of remorse or humility or of course no substance whatsoever"

  2. PM's approach 'pretty extraordinary'published at 18:50 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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  3. Corbyn: Government is failing people of Britainpublished at 18:48 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    "This government is failing the people of Britain and the people of Britain know it," says Jeremy Corbyn

    He says the government has failed - including on climate change and for not saving Thomas Cook.

  4. Corbyn: PM's statement is 'bluster'published at 18:47 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    Mr Johnson's statement "was like his illegal shutting down of Parliament", Corbyn says. "Null, of no effect, and should be quashed".

    He adds the PM's words were "ten minutes of bluster".

  5. PM: Stand aside or call vote of no confidencepublished at 18:45 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    "I say it is time to get Brexit done," says Mr Johnson, saying that it would mean the government can get on with other priorities such as the NHS.

    "I think the people of this country have had enough. This Parliament must either stand aside... or bring a vote of confidence and finally face a day of reckoning with the voters".

  6. PM urges MPs to table no confidence motionpublished at 18:44 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    "They have until the House rises today to table a motion of no confidence in the government," he says.

    "Will they have the courage to act?"

  7. 'Defiance' from PM - as he goads opposition into electionpublished at 18:43 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

    "Is he going to dodge a vote of no confidence in this prime minister?" Mr Johnson asks of Mr Corbyn.

    He asks whether he even wants to be prime minister anymore.

    The BBC's political correspondent Vicki Young says he is "goading" his opponents:

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  8. PM: Opposition have 'obsessive desire' to overrule Brexitpublished at 18:41 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    Mr Johnson accuses the opposition of being "determined to throw out the referendum result".

    "They don't care if another year or more is wasted in arguing about a referendum," he says.

    "All that matters is an obsessive desire to overrule the referendum result while we want to take our country up a gear."

  9. 'We will not betray the people'published at 18:40 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    "We will not betray the people that sent us here," Boris Johnson says.

    "We will not abandon the priorities that matter to the people."

  10. PM: 'They ran to the courts'published at 18:39 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    He says: "This government intends to present a programme for life after Brexit."

    But says some members do not want that.

    "Instead of deciding to let the voters decide they ran to the courts instead," he says.

  11. PM: Supreme Court was wrongpublished at 18:38 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    "I thought the court was wrong to pronounce on what is essentially a political question at a time of great national controversy," Mr Johnson says.

  12. PM: Public will not forget Brexit with new referendumpublished at 18:37 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    Mr Johnson says it is "delusion" that members of the public will forget about the past three years and vote to remain in the EU in the event of a fresh referendum.

  13. 'Parliament will keep sabotaging the negotiations'published at 18:36 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    "The people of this country can see clearly what is going on," Mr Johnson says.

    He says Parliament "does not want to honour its promises of honouring the referendum".

    "This Parliament will keep delaying, it will keep sabotaging the negotiations," he says.

  14. PM: 'Parliament does not want Brexit at all'published at 18:36 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    The PM is out fighting and accuses MPs of trying to wreck negotiations, says the BBC's Nick Eardley.

    Mr Johnson tells MPs: "This Parliament does not want Brexit to happen at all.”

  15. PM: 'Three years of dither and delay'published at 18:34 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    Mr Johnson says there have been "three years of dither and delay".

    "This government that I lead has been trying to get us out," he says.

    He says he was told Brussels would not reopen the withdrawal agreement, but "we are now discussing opening the withdrawal agreement".

  16. Picture: Johnson at the despatch boxpublished at 18:34 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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  17. PM statement beginspublished at 18:31 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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    Boris Johnson is beginning his statement with a comment on yesterday's Supreme Court ruling and the way forward for "this paralysed Parliament".

  18. PM 'to offer chance to table no confidence motion'published at 18:31 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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  19. All eyes on the SNP...published at 18:31 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

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  20. Re-cap: What's happening tonightpublished at 18:24 British Summer Time 25 September 2019

    We're still listening to Dominic Raab as the foreign secretary fields questions about the situation in Iran.

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to address MPs for the first time since Tuesday's Supreme Court judgement.

    We are expecting to see Mr Johnson at around 18:30 BST, but as ever with these things, timings can slip...