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Conservative Sir Bill Cash accuses Remain-voting MPs of “constantly and disingenuously stating their acceptance of the result of the referendum”.  

He finds it "unseemly if not absurd" for the same MPs to try to "mitigate or overturn" the referendum result. 

He says parliamentary scrutiny is "what Parliament's all about" but it cannot "gainsay" the referendum result.

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is on his feet, insisting: "This is not about procedure - this is about the country and whether it works for the country or not." 

"The humility of those who lost should be matched by magnanimity of those who won," he argues. 

There's a need for consensus and transparency in the development of the government's negotiation position on Brexit, he adds. 

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At 3pm, peers will put questions to ministers on the collapse of the north east devolution deal, the Calais 'Jungle' camp, children in Israeli military prison and the school pupil nationality census.

From around 3:30pm peers will begin report stage of the Bus Services Bill, followed by a debate on the BBC's new royal charter.

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Conservative Ken Clarke says he was "surprised" to see pronouncements at his party conference "announced as government policy without a word of debate" in the Commons or Cabinet.

"It wasn't a very good start" to the process of negotiating the UK, he adds.

He says that in view of Brexit backers' support for free trade, "I don't think there's a mandate for pulling out of the single market". 

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"At the moment we are in a situation where the unelected House of Lords will have a greater say in what happens next than the devolved administrations - the elected devolved administrations," says the SNP's Stephen Gethins.

He says he joined the SNP because he believed in "a Scotland that was equal in the family of nations throughout the European Union".

He says the Conservative government is "being led by the nose by UKIP".

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SNP Europe spokesman Stephen Gethins says he is new to Parliament but wonders if it is usual "for a secretary of state to spend so long at the despatch box without actually telling us anything".

He claims that "we don't even have a starting point" for negotiations.

Leaving the EU should be "subject to the most intensive scrutiny" by the UK Parliament and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, he argues.

Mr Gethins says the Leave campaign urged people to vote "based on a blank piece of paper", whereas the SNP Scottish government produced a white paper before Scotland's independence referendum.

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SNP MP Neil Gray asks David Davis whether he favours single market membership or not.

"It's astonishing how linear or black and white they think this is," Mr Davis says, citing the relationship than non-EU states including Norway and Turkey have with the bloc.

"This is not a single entity, it is a spectrum of outcomes and we will be seeking to get the best of the spectrum of outcomes," Mr Davis says.

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David Davis says the government has been clear on "the overarching aims", if not on the details of its negotiating strategy.

Its aims include "maintaining the strongest relationship" with the EU and the "freest possible" trade with the EU and the rest of the world, he says.

In response to Labour's Jack Dromey, he says that you cannot "give away" all details of a negotiating strategy in advance.

He says Labour has not set out what its post-Brexit immigration policy will be.

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The government has tabled an amendment, which would accept the words of Labour's motion calling for Parliament to be consulted before the Brexit process begins, but adds the following words to the end:

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David Davis, the "Brexit secretary", says Labour's plan to ask 170 questions, external, one for each day before the end of March, is "a stunt".

The end of March is the government's self-imposed deadline for triggering Article 50.

However, he says he can "broadly welcome" Labour's motion today but "with important caveats" that he claims the government's amendment addresses.

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Conservative MP Claire Perry says "there are many of us on the government benches" who will support access to the single market.

She urges Labour to accept the government's amendment which, she claims, is "not a hard or a soft Brexit, but a smart Brexit".

Jonathan Edwards of Plaid Cymru wants to know "the Labour Party's policy on single market membership".

Sir Keir Starmer says the party wants "the best access to the single market".

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Conservative MPs who campaigned to leave the EU press Sir Keir Starmer on his position.

Bernard Jenkin asks whether Labour's shadow Brexit secretary is in favour of triggering Article 50 or would back a vote in Parliament against it.

Iain Duncan Smith asks: "What is the simple definition of leaving? Is it the non-application of EU law?" The government plans to introduce a Great Repeal Bill incorporating EU laws applying to the UK into UK law.

Sir Keir argues that Parliament has a greater role. "We are almost certainly leaving one treaty and signing new treaties," he says, adding:

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SNP MP Alex Salmond says he remembers the debate on the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, when there were "lots of votes" in Parliament.

Conservative MP and former Attorney General Dominic Grieve says there is a convention that a major treaty change requires an "affirmative" vote in Parliament.

And shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer says the government has "prerogative power" over sending UK troops into battle but recent convention has enabled a vote of MPs on military action.

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