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For the SNP, Joanna Cherry says the effect of the bill will be to create "a complex division of decision-making that does not reflect the reality of devolution" in Scotland.

"That is why we say this bill is a power grab," she continues.

She challenges all Scottish MPs not to "undermine the settled will of the Scottish people" by voting through the bill.

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The DUP's Sammy Wilson describes the bill as "an essential building block".

He says it's "ironic" for the bill's critics to condemn it as "undemocratic", when, in his view, they are trying to block Brexit altogether.

He makes the point the bill can't be improved if MPs vote it down at second reading.

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Labour's Alex Norris quips: "We're wandering around the continent wondering who's with us - that's the strategy of a stag do, not a negotiation."

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The SNP's Pete Wishart submits that to attempt to overhaul UK law in eight days is "a national embarrassment".

He contrasts it with the 41 days taken to debate the Maastricht Treaty.

He claims "the clowns are in charge of the Brexit circus".

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Conservative Chris Philp, like others, focuses on secondary legislation, saying statutory instruments arising from the bill are "voteable should they [MPs] wish to do so".

The delegated powers are "fairly clearly circumscribed", he argues, and "the sunset clauses give further reassurance".

Sunset clauses mean the delegated powers expire after two years.

MPs are urged not to "frustrate" Brexit plans as they prepare to vote on the EU withdrawal bill.

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Labour's Gareth Snell tells the House: "This bill is flawed."

"Look at the way government has treated this House," he says, highlighting the government's contention that it did not have to consult Parliament on activating Article 50.

He raises the prospect of "taxation for the sake of paying for a bill they won't allow to be scrutinised", allowed for in the money resolution on the bill.

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Conservative Suella Fernandes says that membership of the EU has had a "corrosive effect on democracy" and prevented lawmakers from being "bold for Britain".

She calls the bill an "integral part of machinery that will make Brexit a reality" and "give Parliament back its power".

Ruth Davidson says she would campaign to remain in the EU if another referendum were to be held.

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Labour's Tulip Siddiq describes the powers awarded by the bill as "unacceptable and brazen".

She claims it "takes control away from Parliament, takes control away from the regions, and takes away hard-won rights".

She uses the example of air pollution, saying this is one area London will have fewer layers of protection from after EU law is written into UK law.

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Conservative Paul Masterton says the will of the people must be respected, but "the people are not united" and he's mindful of his constituents who voted Remain.

But he adds that all his constituents "want it [Brexit] to work".

He sees the repeal bill as "good and necessary", because without it there will be "gaping holes in the statute book".

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Labour's Stephen Kinnock tells MPs they should decline to give the bill a second reading as "this bill frustrates the will of the British people" and would lead to the "degradation of our fundamental constitutional rights".

It would give ministers "the absolute power of feudal lords", he warns, and "emasculate this House".

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Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams accuses the government of seeking to reclaim powers which all parties backed being devolved to the Welsh Assembly "as carelessly as it might throw a cigarette end into a pail of petrol".

He warns Westminster may be "lurching towards constitutional crisis".

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Conservative Nusrat Ghani describes the bill as "a logical step" in the process of leaving the EU.

"Where were your objections when the laws were enacted in Brussels and forced on us in the first place?" she asks opposition MPs.

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SNP MP Hannah Bardell accuses the government of carrying out "an act of complete recklessness" by pressing ahead with "this deficient bill".

She says the bill seeks to "undermine the devolution settlement and the guarantees given to devolved nations on the protections of their power".

It is, she says "a wrecking ball to Britain's democracy".