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Labour MP Graham Stringer, who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, has told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he is considering voting for Boris Johnson's deal.

He said: "In its own terms it is very similar to the deal I voted against that Theresa May brought back to the House of Commons. In some ways it is better in some ways it is worse."

Mr Stringer said he did not support a border between the UK and EU along the Irish sea, which would be required under the new deal.

But the MP for Blackley and Broughton added: "On the other hand, I campaigned very hard to leave and feel I have to honour the decision of 17.4 million people and will consider whether this deal goes down then we won’t get Brexit at all.

"It is a bad deal but if I thought we would not get Brexit at all then I would consider voting for it."

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Scotland's highest civil court is set to consider a legal bid to stop the UK government from passing the new proposed EU withdrawal agreement.

Anti-Brexit campaigners believe it contravenes legislation preventing Northern Ireland from forming part of a separate customs territory.

Campaigner Jo Maugham QC confirmed the petition, external was lodged at the Court of Session in Edinburgh yesterday.

Mr Maugham wants an interdict effectively suspending the deal.

He is also demanding a court order that MPs will get to see the full, final text of the agreement before voting on it.

Lord Pentland is expected hear the case this morning and the court could sit again in the evening for an appeal.

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The Estonian prime minister says the new UK-EU deal will protect the rights of EU citizens and provide security for entrepreneurs.

Juri Ratas says he was "sad" that the UK was leaving the bloc but that a deal was better than no deal, according to a report in the privately-owned Baltic News Service.

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Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the numbers behind the vote in Parliament are "achingly tight".

Speaking from Brussels, where she is about to get on a train back to London, she says: "Just like Theresa May, Boris Johnson has gone into this vote without knowing whether or not he's going to win it."

She points out that Mr Johnson is more likely than Mrs May to get the support he needs, but says: "It's a bit like the PM has jumped off a cliff into thin air - not knowing where he's going to land."

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Andrew Bridgen disagrees with Mr Grieve.

The North West Leicestershire MP says he is currently minded to vote for the deal unless any "devil in the detail" rears its head today or tomorrow.

"My constituents have got Brexit fatigue," he says, adding that this deal is "a lot better" than the one made by Theresa May.

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Former attorney general Dominic Grieve says he will not vote for the deal unless an amendment is added to it to allow for a confirmatory referendum.

"To ask me to rubber-stamp this is something I am not prepared to do," he says.

He also says the deal has a lot of "flaws".

Mr Grieve is one of the 21 Tory rebels who lost the party whip when they voted for the Benn Act last month.

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Brussels reporter

The big thing the EU is trying to do to help Boris Johnson, other than agreeing to this deal, is keeping quiet about whether or not they would grant an extension to the Brexit deadline.

They don't want to get involved with the British domestic situation too much - but they want to help make it clear to the British public that it's this deal, or no deal.

However, I've also heard in the background here in Brussels that an extension would be granted on the EU side if the UK asked for it.

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Much of this morning's talk focuses on the numbers needed for Mr Johnson's deal to pass through Parliament.

He will be greatly helped if some Labour MPs refuse to toe their party line.

Labour leaders say they are telling all their MPs to vote against the deal - but at the moment, it's not clear whether they are threatening potential rebels with expulsion from the parliamentary party.

"I believe in the powers of persuasion," shadow chancellor John McDonnell tells the Today programme.

When asked whether or not rebel Labour MPs would lose the whip, he says it's not his decision, adding: "I'm not the chief whip, thank goodness. I've got enough on my plate."

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Lord Rose points out that if the Brexit deal is not voted through tomorrow it will mean "the fourth Christmas of uncertainty" for businesses such as retailers.

"People want to know where they are headed," he tells the Today programme. "They want to have a direction and we need to get back, much more importantly, to investing in our businesses."

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says he is against the prime minister's new deal "because we won't vote for anything that makes our constituents or our country poorer".

"It will introduce checks and barriers on our border and it is worse than Theresa May's deal because it removes those commitments that she was willing to offer about a level playing field to protect workers rights, environmental standards and consumer rights" he says.

"It's a very bad deal, we can't support it," he continues.

"Let the people have a sensible Leave option but also a Remain option as well and let the people have the final say."

The Labour MP says Mr Johnson has "sold our living standards, our jobs and yes he's sold out the DUP by the looks of it too".

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The winning post for votes in the House of Commons is 320 if everyone turns up - seven Sinn Fein MPs do not sit and the Speaker and three deputies do not vote.

There are currently 287 voting Conservative MPs. The prime minister needs to limit any rebellion among them.

Then, if the DUP will not support his deal, he will need the backing of 23 former Conservative MPs who are currently independents. Most will probably support the deal, but not all.

That is still not quite enough, so the PM will also need the backing of some Labour MPs and ex-Labour independents. In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents.

This time it is likely to be a bit higher than that because several MPs have said they would now back a deal.

All this still leaves the vote very close. And it is possible some MPs could abstain, making it even harder to predict the outcome.

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Stuart Rose, chairman of online supermarket Ocado and former chairman of the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign, says he supports the PM's Brexit terms.

"I was involved in the Remain campaign, I was a Remainer but I'm also a realist. I hope I'm a pragmatist and a respecter of the democratic process," he told the BBC.

"I think this deal isn't ideal - someone has pointed out this morning that there isn't a lot of difference between what Theresa May had and what Boris Johnson has this morning.

"But I think this deal now today is the best deal we'll get - it is better, absolutely, than a hard Brexit.

"I support it, I hope that business will. I'm involved with businesses in the car industry, the food industry and the clothing industry and I can tell you that the people in the businesses I'm involved in, they want to move on."

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The foreign secretary would not say what the government planned to do in the event it lost the vote on Saturday.

"We're focused on the deal on Saturday - all our efforts are going into that," Dominic Raab said.

"Those who want to criticise or block this deal will be holding the UK back... It's only through this deal that we can get Brexit done," he added.

When asked how Mr Johnson would get around the Benn Act - a law to prevent a no-deal Brexit from happening on 31 October - Mr Raab repeated that the UK would be leaving the EU by 31 October, deal or no deal.

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The DUP's Brexit spokesman says his party has not changed its tune overnight - it will vote against the prime minister's new deal.

"I can give you absolute assurance we will not be voting for this deal when it comes before the Commons tomorrow," Sammy Wilson told Today.

He said a vote for the withdrawal agreement would support "siphoning us off from the rest of the UK" - adding that the deal would mean Northern Irish businesses would incur "additional costs and administrative burdens".

If the prime minister loses Saturday's vote, under law (the Benn Act, passed by MPs last month) he is obliged to write to the EU and ask for a three-month extension - unless he can get MPs to back a no-deal Brexit.

President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said yesterday he saw no reason for there to be any more "prolongation" - suggesting to some that an extension, if requested by Mr Johnson, might be rejected by the EU.

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council - which represents political leaders - would not say for certain whether or not an extension remained an option for the UK. But he did say the bloc supported Mr Johnson's deal and would be "flexible" to help ensure it was implemented.

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Sir Oliver Letwin - one of the 21 Tory rebels who lost the whip when they voted in support of the Benn Act - said it would be a "huge relief" for the whole country if the deal got Parliament's backing.

But he also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he believed the deadline of 31 October could be postponed if Boris Johnson asked for more time.

"My gut instinct is that, if the prime minister asks for an extension, it will be granted and on a flexible basis - so that as soon as we're ready to leave, as soon as we've got the deal in place in the UK... we would be out. And I welcome that," he said.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

He did it. They did it.

Boris Johnson and his team, who beat the odds in 2016, have overturned the conventional wisdom again.

The EU said they would not budge; their former Tory colleagues and the opposition colleagues said it was all a sham.

But after a breakneck set of negotiations, a deal's been struck and the rest of the continent gave way on the controversial backstop, the feature of the former agreement that did for Theresa May.

However, Mr Johnson had to cede some ground too, accepting that Northern Ireland will be treated differently to the rest of the UK and follow some EU rules and regulations, perhaps for good.

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