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After the UK was granted its first Brexit extension, European Council President Donald Tusk asked the UK not to waste the time it was given.

Seven months, much wrangling and one Jacob Rees-Mogg style guide later, the UK has been given another extension, accompanied with another request to use the time efficiently.

Amendments to the bill are being published on the Parliament website.

So far, they include:

• Giving EU citizens the vote
• Giving 16 and 17-year-olds the vote
• Changing the election date to 9 December
• Changing the election date to 7 December
• Changing the election date to 7 May 2020 and holding a referendum first

But it will be down to Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to chose which ones get selected.

You can keep an eye on the amendments here, external.

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A group of female Labour MPs, including Holly Lynch, have written to the Duchess of Sussex expressing "solidarity with you in taking a stand against the often distasteful and misleading nature of the stories printed in a number of our national newspapers concerning you, your character and your family".

"On occasions, stories and headlines have represented an invasion of your privacy and have sought to cast aspersion about your character.

"Even more concerning still, we are calling out what can only be described as outdated, colonial undertones to some of these stories.

"We will use the means at our disposal to ensure that our press accept your right to privacy and show respect, and that their stories reflect the truth."

The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.

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Speaking about amending the bill to change the voting age to 16, Conservative MP Bim Afolami says: "I think it's completely out of scope of the bill to change the franchise just before an election in six weeks strikes me as not quite right.

"I think this is all just silly, political game-playing from the opposition.

"They've accepted the principle of an election. Let's just do an election on the franchise that we always had."

ITV political correspondent Joe Pike says he "bumped into" the PM's most senior adviser Dominic Cummings, who said of an election: "We're not going to have one."

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A Number 10 source has told the Press Association that if the Conservatives win a general election then Brexit will likely not come until 2020.

"What the Conservatives will be promising if we win is that we will get Brexit done," they said.

"We will immediately come back, we have a deal, we will be able to go to the European Council and get it ratified and get this done."

Asked if this meant departing the EU by the end of this year, the source added: "Probably the start of January, but 2020 would be about our domestic priorities."

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If you’re just joining us - MPs in the House of Commons are debating the government’s bill to hold an early general election on 12 December.

Earlier, they changed the rules to ensure MPs could propose amendments to the bill later this evening.

The government had tried to ensure that only ministers would be able to change the legislation.

This means backbenchers could try to amend the bill to ensure 16 and 17-year-olds and EU citizens with settled status are able to take part.

However, it’s not clear yet whether these amendments will be selected for a vote.

The government says it will pull the bill if it’s amended to extend the franchise in this way, with a No 10 spokesman saying it would create a six-month delay.

The PM's official spokesman has given details of when Parliament would have to be dissolved to hold an election on the suggested dates.

Speaking to the Press Association, he said that if the vote was to be held on 11 December, then Parliament would have to be dissolved at one minute past midnight on 5 November - the morning of Guy Fawkes Night.

But if it is held on 12 December - as the government has requested - then it would be dissolved on 6 November, he added.

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"I don't believe the prime minister has been pushing for an election because it is impossible for him to get his Brexit bill through," says Labour's Pat McFadden.

"This has been done because the prime minister wants to avoid proper scrutiny of his proposals," he adds.

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Boris Johnson expelled 21 MPs from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they rebelled against him in September.

They included ex-chancellor Philip Hammond, Theresa May's justice secretary David Gauke and former chancellor and Father of the House Ken Clarke.

But now, the BBC's political correspondent says, Number 10 has hinted these MPs could be allowed back in the party before an election.

Those inside Downing Street have suggested the government will withdraw the election bill if an amendment passes allowing EU citizens and under-18s the vote.

But will this amendment even be selected by deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle to then be voted on by MPs?

Stephen Bush - political editor of the New Statesman - says there is "no way" that will happen.

Labour and the SNP have signalled support for allowing EU citizens living in the UK to vote in a December general election.

The government has threatened to pull the bill if the franchise is changed.

At the moment, EU citizens cannot vote in general elections - but they can vote in local and European elections. So many of the estimated 3.3 million EU citizens living in the UK may already be registered to vote.

UK citizens are allowed to vote in Ireland's general elections and vice versa - so the move wouldn't be entirely unprecedented.

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Asked about lowering the voting age to 16, Conservative Bob Seely says "it is a very significant principle and I don't think we should do it in a rush".

"Many of the bills we brought in haste, we have repented at leisure."

The government will pull the election bill if it’s amended to extend the franchise to include 16-year-olds and EU Citizens, No 10 says.

A spokesman said a vote to change the franchise would create a six-month delay.

The spokesman said: “Nothing would sum up how broken this parliament is if after them all standing up there and saying they want a general election – they vote for an amendment which is deliberately designed to actually prevent the delivery of a general election before 2020.”

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Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson now speaks.

"I do want 16 and 17-years-old to be able to vote," she says.

"It is a change whose time is coming.

"Of course I would vote for that change."

However she does not explicitly say she will be voting for the amendment seeking to extend the franchise this afternoon.

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The SNP's Ian Blackford says his party will support reducing the voting age for all elections to 16 and extending the franchise to citizens of the European Union living in the UK.

"There is nothing for the government to fear by extending the franchise," he says, and points out that EU nationals are already on the voting register because they are allowed to vote in local elections.