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Brexit committee chair, Labour's Hilary Benn said the PM's speech provided some "welcome additional detail".

He asks Mrs May to give a guarantee to businesses in Northern Ireland that their goods will not face checks, control or infrastructure when the UK leaves the EU.

She replies that there'll be no hard border, meaning there would be a free flow of goods and services and people, post-Brexit.

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Conservative MP John Redwood calls on the prime minister to give a commitment that "we are ready to leave in March in 2019, with or without a deal".

Theresa May says she can reassure him that "we will be leaving in March 2019".

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The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford says the prime minister's speech was characterised by "empty rhetoric".

He says Scottish Secretary David Mundell was not invited to the Chequers awayday two weeks ago, meaning Scotland's voice "was not heard at these crucial cabinet discussions".

In response Theresa May says the "decisions that led to" the approach in her speech were taken by "the whole cabinet".

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Conservative Iain Duncan Smith congratulates Theresa May on an "excellent speech" on Friday.

He asks whether bringing decision-making "back" to the UK Parliament delivers on the referendum pledge to "take back control".

He ends on a light-hearted note, saying that "cakes exist to be eaten and cherries exist to be picked".

Mrs May says he's absolutely right to say that people voted to take back control of borders, money and laws in the 2016 referendum.

"When we have left the European Union, decisions over our laws will be for this parliament to take", she adds.

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Theresa May says she has discussed steel tariffs with President Trump and argues the UK will obtain a more positive result by engaging with the US, accusing Jeremy Corbyn of "sniping and shouting" at the US instead.

The government is committed to "enhancing workers' rights" and maintaining environmental standards, she insists.

Following Mr Corbyn's accusation of "ideological crusades" among Brexit supporters, she accuses the Labour leader of wanting to "tear up rules on state aid and fair competition".

The PM goes on to accuse Labour of wanting the UK "effectively to remain" under the jurisdiction of the European court rather than taking control of laws.

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Responding for Labour, Jeremy Corbyn says the prime minister's speech failed to offer "any clear and credible solution to the problems we face".

Theresa May has failed to "bring clarity" to the Brexit negotiations or give certainty to businesses, he tells MPs.

Accusing the prime minister of being "held hostage" by the "extremes" in her cabinet, he adds that her speech "barely papered over the cracks in her own party".

She also "offered no real solution" to the issue of the Irish border, other than repeating the "already discredited idea" of using technology to avoid a hard border, he says.

However he says he welcomes that the prime minister has "abandoned" her "ridiculous red line" of fully ending the jurisdiction of the EU's top court in the UK.

This opens the possibility of staying part of EU regulatory agencies, he adds.

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Nodding along to Mrs May's speech is the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. The nodding is especially vigorous when the prime minister insists there will be no hard border in Ireland.

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The prime minister's statement that the UK could be an "example" to other countries is greeted with jeers from the opposition benches.

Nevertheless, Theresa May insists that she has provided greater clarity about the Brexit process, adding: "Let's get on with it."

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Theresa May insists that the UK is leaving the Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy.

The UK will aim for "reciprocal access to waters" in future fishing arrangements.

Mrs May adds that the chancellor will set out more information on financial services later in the week.

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The Speaker John Bercow stops proceedings briefly to complain about the "considerable level of orchestrated heckling".

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Theresa May says that UK and EU citizens will still want to work and study in each other's countries and the government is "open" to discussions about how this happens.

She says she wants the UK to explore how it can remain part of some EU agencies, which would mean "respecting" the remit of the ECJ.

Mrs May says the UK has been "clear" that it is leaving the customs union. She adds that there are two potential options: a customs partnership or a "highly streamlined customs arrangement" - both of which she says will allow the UK to set its own tarrifs.

She says that there'll be no hard border in Northern Ireland, and no attempts to break up the UK's internal market, such as a border "down the Irish sea".

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Sitting behind the prime minister on the front bench is the Chancellor Philip Hammond and the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

Mr Hammond, who is nodding away during Mrs May's statement, is giving evidence on Brexit to the EU Scrutiny Committee later this afternoon.

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Theresa May begins her statement on the UK's "future economic partnership" with the EU - and also sets out some possible consequences for the UK arising from the Brexit process.

The government has "made clear" its concerns about the EU's first draft of the withdrawal agreement but is "confident we can resolve our remaining differences in the days ahead", the PM says.

We must now focus on the future relationship, she says, setting out five key areas:

• the UK is leaving the single market
• decisions of the European Court of Justice "will continue to affect us"
• access to markets "must be on fair terms" so some regulations will remain in step with the EU
• "tensions" between objectives need to be resolved, including "frictionless" trade across borders
• this is a negotiation and "neither side can have exactly what we want"

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The Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in the Commons and is sitting on the frontbench preparing for her statement on the UK's future economic partnership with the EU.

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Liberal Democrat Tom Brake recalls an earlier statement by the defence secretary that British armed forces were "making sure terrorists have nowhere to hide" across the globe.

Mr Brake says the MoD has admitted its drone policy was "misleading and eroneously drafted" and asks whether it is "the policy of the UK government to kill people outside war zones".

Gavin Williamson says the UK will always operate in accordance with international law.

"But do our armed forces step up to keeping our country safe from terrorist threats? Yes they do," he says.

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Liberal Democrat spokesman Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames backs Labour's amendment seeking clarification of how EU family law will apply after Brexit.

He observes that while EU countries each have their own family law, EU laws in this area enable mutual recognition and cross-border co-operation.

He says this framework helps tackle crimes such as child abduction, of which there are 1,800 cases a year in the EU, and domestic violence.