House of Commons
Parliament

Labour MP Stephen Kinnock says that without parliamentary scrutiny, the only information to emerge about the government's Brexit strategy will do so through "Whitehall whispers, Fleet Street filtering and disgruntled score-settling".

The process of leaving the EU must be governed by "the national interest rather than the prime minister's need to manage the warring factions in her party", he tells the House.

Mr Kinnock, who campaigned to remain in the EU, insists he has "no desire to see the result of the referendum overturned. It must stand."

House of Lords
Parliament

Peers are now debating a Labour amendment that would allow areas that do not have elected mayors to take advantage of the bill's bus franchising powers.

Labour peer Lord Kennedy of Southwark says expanding the powers would allow more places to get the advantage, and says he hopes that since the change in prime minister the government will have thought again about forcing elected mayors on areas that don't want them.

The US should be as much a target for protests against the violence in Syria as Russia, suggests a spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

House of Commons
Parliament

SDLP MP Mark Durkan, who supported remaining in the EU, rejects "the idea that Parliament has no say" in the process of leaving the EU.

He takes aim at Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis, the cabinet ministers tasked with overseeing the Brexit process.

The process can't be left to "the three egos, because they're not three amigos", he says.

House of Commons
Parliament

Anna Turley, the Labour MP for Redcar, says her constituents voted to leave "the current social, economic and political settlement is not working for them and they wanted to see change".

She adds: "The people of Teesside voted for Brexit, but they did not vote to give the government a blank cheque to negotiate away their jobs, their rights and their security."

House of Lords
Parliament

Peers vote 189 to 164 to back Labour peer Lord Whitty's amendment requiring employees' representatives to be consulted on changes to bus partnership schemes.

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

Image source, PA

Today's Commons debate on Brexit - or at least on the need for proper parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit - is just an appetiser for conflicts to come.

One way or another, most politicians in the Chamber will spend the rest of their working lives grappling with the implications of the decision taken in June. And Parliament will certainly offer many channels for doing so.

One of the most striking aspects of the debate is the sudden and surprising alignment between Tory Remainers (ex-Remainers?) and non-Corbynista Labour MPs.

Both, at least for now, pay ritual obeisance to the will of the people as expressed in the referendum, but both are now arguing hard for some arrangement that keeps Britain within the EU single market, as opposed to an arrangement that allows access.

And there seems to be genuine warmth between Labour heavyweights now lurking on the Opposition backbenches: the Pat McFaddens, the Angela Eagles, the Chris Bryants, and Tory ex-ministers like Dominic Grieve, Claire Perry, Anna Soubry and Alistair Burt.

Read more here.

House of Lords
Parliament

Transport Minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon agrees it's "appropriate" for employees' representatives to be consulted on changes to bus partnership schemes but says he doesn't think it should be mandated.

But Lord Whitty forces his amendment to a vote.

House of Lords
Parliament

Labour's Lord Whitty introduces an amendment which would mean that if an authority proposes to make an advanced quality partnership scheme, they must give notice to representatives of any affected employees.

Alongside franchising, the Bus Services Bill delivers a variety of partnership options, including the strengthening of the current quality partnership schemes in England (which become known as advanced quality partnership schemes).

House of Commons
Parliament

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh of the SNP says proponents of Brexit have said different things about free movement, trade and the single market - and claims government ministers have done so too.

The Vote Leave campaign proposed a points-based system for immigration from the EU ahead of the referendum, but the new prime minister ruled that out, she says.

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox proposed leaving the EU customs union and a "free trade agreement with the EU" but "again, Downing Street was forced to clarify comments".

"How can we trust this government to get a good result from this process?" she asks. "They don't even trust each other."

House of Commons
Parliament

Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire speaks up for the benefits of free movement, which she thinks should not be "cast aside".

She says her constituency in Bristol West voted "overwhelmingly" to remain in the EU and want "to hang on to everything that's good about the European Union for a long as we possibly can".

EU citizens are not "displacing British people from jobs but sharing their knowledge", she argues, saying to them: "We welcome you, we value you and we want you to stay."

She adds that many 16 and 17-year-olds, "denied a vote" in the referendum, wanted to have the opportunity to live and work in other countries and "feel betrayed by the older generation".

House of Lords
Parliament

Peers vote 174 to 80 to reject a Lib Dem amendment that would require a concessionary fare scheme for 16 to 19-year-olds.

House of Lords
Parliament

Responding for the government, Transport Minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon says he can't back mandatory youth concessions because it will be "costly to local authorities and bus operators".

Concessions are "a decision which should be taken locally" and government doesn't wish to "tie the hands" of local authorities, he adds.

The Lib Dems disagree and force a vote. 

House of Lords
Parliament

Baroness Randerson is introducing a Liberal Democrat amendment that would force authorities and bus operators to offer specific concessionary fares for 16 to 19-year-olds.

Baroness Randerson says similar schemes already exist and are successful in Wales.

House of Commons
Parliament

Conservative Dominic Grieve, who supported Remain, says he recognises that the majority to leave the EU was "not negligible".

He says the UK has options for its future relationship relationship with the EU ranging from that of Norway to something similar to that of North Korea - but he says he is not prepared "to have options closed down by diktat from wherever it may come".

There will need to be parliamentary debate and approval, he argues, adding that Parliament voted to have the referendum rather than the executive deciding to hold it.

The former attorney general predicts that leaving the EU will be "a legal nightmare" which will detract from other matters on which the Commons should be focused.

House of Lords
Parliament

Peers vote by 219 to 178 in favour of Amendment 6, meaning a second government defeat of the afternoon, this time on emissions standards for new buses.

House of Commons
Parliament

"We were on both the winning and the losing side in Scotland," says SNP MP Stuart McDonald, who supports remaining in the EU.

The SNP helped persuade a majority of Scottish voters to back Remain but the UK as a whole voted by a majority to Leave.

Referring to Gisela Stuart's earlier comment that there was "healing" to be done, he argues that the government did not make "even a smidgen" of that effort at healing in Scotland after the independence referendum in 2014.

House of Commons
Parliament

Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng tells the Commons Speaker: "You are chairing a group therapy session."

Many in the House are in denial or angry, or depressed, but many accept the referendum result, he says, adding: "We all need to accept this result and move on."

He accuses some MPs of creating "false oppositions". The UK can have access to the single market but not be in it, and control immigration but not end it, he argues.

House of Lords
Parliament

Peers are now voting on a Labour amendment that would ensure all new buses meet standards set by the government's Office for Low Emission Vehicles.

Labour's Baroness Jones of Whitchurch says government and Liberal Democrat amendments on the subject "don't go far enough" and that "low carbon buses have a crucial role to play" in meeting our international obligations to cut emissions.

She notes that currently just 9% of buses are classified as low emission.

House of Commons
Parliament

Labour MP Gisela Stuart says there has been talk in today's debate of working together but sometimes "in a tone that shows there's a lot of healing to be done".

The former co-chair of the Vote Leave campaign says: "I rather regret that we ended up with the term 'Brexit'. It was a vote to leave. It was a vote to take control of your laws, your taxes."

Ms Stuart also argues it is important that the government recognises the "rights" of EU citizens to stay in the UK "as soon as possible".

Analysing the Leave vote, she says that focus groups wanted to have control over immigration, for "those rules to be fair" and to apply to everyone outside the UK.