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Alongside all the drama going on at the Supreme Court and Westminster, Labour's annual conference has also been continuing this week.

It drew to a close this morning. Here's a recap of the big things that happened.

And for just the very latest, here's what happened this morning when party members voted for a motion which urges Labour to defend freedom of movement, and give the vote to all migrants in the UK.

Adam Fleming
Brussels reporter

The UK has only presented "potential components" of an alternative to the Irish backstop in the Withdrawal Agreement and not a legally-operative solution, the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt has told a parliamentary committee in Brussels.

The EU is not prepared to replace the backstop on this basis, he told MEPs on the Constitutional Affairs Committee.

"Hopefully there are further proposals coming," he said.

The EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will update the parliament's Brexit Steering Group tomorrow morning.

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Parliament

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is still updating the House on the current situation surrounding the collapse of Thomas Cook.

Normally statements in the Commons last about an hour, but this statement is still going one hour and 20 minutes in.

Here's what's expected after this statement:

1. Brexit readiness and operation yellow hammer - Cabinet Minister Michael Gove
2. Iran Update - Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
3. Update to Parliament - The prime minister
4. Business Statement - Leader of the Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg

The prime minister is likely to give his statement after 17:00 BST.

Vicki Young
Chief Political Correspondent

In normal times, opposition MPs say Boris Johnson would have been forced to resign following Tuesday's Supreme Court judgement.

But we are not in normal times.

What we are likely to see from the prime minister later is a bit more of what we saw from the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox.

I do not think there will be an apology following the Supreme Court’s ruling.

We will see Boris Johnson say he is trying to deliver the will of the people, trying to deliver Brexit, and being thwarted by what some might call an elitist Parliament and court.

This could be why we’ve heard the government may table a one-line bill for a general election.

They would have to table this tonight and go away in order to bring a vote on it tomorrow.

The bill could say “we want an election on a date in October”.

But opposition MPs want Mr Johnson to take no deal off the table first.

And that is something the prime minister has said he would never do.

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Take a look at the latest pictures from today, as MPs and advisers headed back to Parliament.

Naturally MPs across the Commons have had different takes on Attorney General Geoffrey Cox's defence of the government's actions today.

"All bluff and bluster," says the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner, adding that he has "absolutely no shame".

Meanwhile, Tory MP and Brexiteer Steve Baker dubs his comments - which included calling Parliament a disgrace - as "outstanding".

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BBC Radio 4

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, says the Supreme Court did a "great service" to the country by "exposing the manoeuvre to silence Parliament".

"We see this issue as cast as a struggle between plebiscitary democracy - that is government by referendum - and representative government," he says.

"We respect the vote in June 2016 in favour of Brexit, now we have to agree the terms with the European Union on leaving. What you can't do [is] silence representative government."

Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent, predicts there would be a hung Parliament after a general election.

"There's still a sense that this Parliament is not very good at saying what it wants, it's good at saying what it doesn't want," he says.

Alice Thomson, who writes for the Times, believes that Nigel Farage's message of "us v them" - where "they" are the establishment" - could persuade more voters to back the Brexit Party.

"It does rally this cause where [voters] look at Parliament and they don't like what they're seeing."

Vicki Young
Chief Political Correspondent

The election leaflet is already being written by Conservative Party central office: “Jeremy Corbyn is the man who wants to delay and block Brexit and he does not want to let the people decide."

Boris Johnson wants a general election and there was talk today from the attorney general of bringing forward a one-line bill that sets the election date in law.

It gets round the idea you need two-thirds of MPs to vote for it - it would have to be a simple majority.

The opposition are not going to go for it because they want no deal off the table first.

The Lib Dems want to use this extra Parliamentary time to bring forward new legislation to demand Mr Johnson asks for a delay before the 19 October.

They say “we cannot sit around and wait to see if he breaks the law again”.

Meanwhile, I think Mr Johnson will be unrepentant when he appears in the Commons later today.

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The House of Commons is "running away" from its obligation to deliver Brexit, says Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin.

"We've got two democratic systems of deciding things in the modern constitution: one is by representative democracy and the other is by direct democracy. What we have is a collision between two forms of legitimacy," he adds.

"The Supreme Court has clearly chosen the parliamentary, they don't address the question of the direct mandate."

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Parliament

Mr Shapps tells MPs arrangements are in place to bring back 150,000 people, from 50 different countries and using 1,000 flights by the Civil Aviation Authority.

"Passengers should be able to complete their full holidays," he says.

A total of 16,500 passengers are being repatriated today on 70 flights, he says.

"So far 95% of people have been repatriated back to their original point of departure," he says.

Mr Shapps says the government needs to look at the options around the situation - including whether it is possible airlines "can be wound down in a more orderly manner".

He says efforts will be focused on this in the next couple of weeks.

"It will require primary legislation and - dare I say - a new session of Parliament," he says.

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Parliament

The Commons has moved on to discussing Thomas Cook, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps telling MPs it is a "very sad situation".

"The government is committed to supporting those involved," he says.

Mr Shapps says repatriation flights are being provided free of charge.

Labour backbencher Barry Sheerman - the MP for Huddersfield - is trending on Twitter after his furious response to Attorney General Geoffrey Cox earlier.

On social media, he's been described as "screaming" and "the angriest contribution ever seen in the Commons".

Watch the full exchange here:

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Boris Johnson must be questioned about the prorogation and his government's negotiations with the EU, Labour MP John Healey says.

"We need to hear from him this afternoon [about] why he acted unlawfully, why it seems he gave the Queen and the public misleading reasons for the prorogation in the first place... and, absolutely, we want Parliament back doing its job to question ministers over what progress they're making in these negotiations for a deal," he says.

He adds that Labour wants a general election, but must first "prevent Boris Johnson crashing Britain out with no deal".

Lib Dem peer Lord Jeremy Purvis says Lord Keen - the government's lawyer who defended Boris Johnson's prorogation in the Scottish case in the Supreme Court - should quit.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, the PM needs the support of two-thirds of MPs - at least 434 - to trigger an early poll.

But opposition MPs have said they won't support calls for an election.

It's not impossible to get through the two-thirds majority requirement.

The government could introduce a very short bill that calls for an election and adds "notwithstanding the Fixed Term Parliaments Act".

This would only need a simple majority of MPs to back it, says the BBC's Mark D'Arcy.

Read more about how the government could get an early election here.

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The government should be "very careful" about using language about attacks on Parliament, says former Justice Secretary David Gauke, after Attorney General Geoffrey Cox referred to a "dead Parliament" in the House of Commons.

"The sense coming from this government that it is the people vs. - whether it's the Parliament or the judiciary or the establishment more generally - is a dangerous road to go down," he says.

He adds that he is concerned about anonymous briefing from Downing Street which "seems to be impugning the motives of the judiciary... and suggesting that the Supreme Court was not entitled to reach the judgement it reached".

"I don't think it's at all appropriate and nobody connected with the government should be doing that whatsoever."

Opposition MPs previously rejected Boris Johnson's earlier demand for a general election before the EU summit in mid-October.

Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru said they want to ensure a no-deal Brexit is ruled out before they agree to an election.

The Commons is now moving on to a second Urgent Question - one which is potentially no less problematic for the prime minister.

Lib Dem Layla Moran says there has been a "misuse of funds and conflict of interest" in relation to a £100,000 cyber security grant given to Hacker House - a tech recruitment firm run by US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.

Newspaper reports suggested Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was London Mayor and received thousands in other sponsorship grants.

But Labour's Tom Watson said it is "very hard to see how this firm filled the criteria for such grants", suggesting it has no employees in London. He asks whether any MPs lobbied for the firm to receive public money.

Responding for the government, Matt Warman said the prime minister had had no input into the award of public money to Ms Arcuri's business and all appropriate due diligence had been carried out by senior officials before the award.

"The prime minister has had no role whatsoever in this application."

The government, he adds, would co-operate with all inquiries into the matter, including one being undertaken by Sadiq Khan, Mr Johnson's successor as London mayor.