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The Commons has voted to reject Lords amendment 2 (on the Customs Union).

Ayes: 326

Noes: 296

Majority: 30

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The Commons has divided to vote on Lords amendment 2, which again relates to the steps the government would take to negotiate a customs union with the EU.

The result is expected around 8:25pm.

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The Commons have voted to reject Lords amendment 1.

Ayes: 325

Noes: 298

Majority: 27

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The Commons divides to vote on Lords amendment 1.

This amendment forces the government to report to Parliament on the steps taken to keep the UK in a customs union by 31 October.

The result is expected around 8:15pm.

A statement from the Labour Party confirms, ahead of voting on the EEA amendment, Laura Smith has resigned from her junior shadow Cabinet Office role and Ged Killen, Ellie Reeves, Tonia Antoniazzi and Anna McMorrin have resigned from PPS roles.

It's understood Laura Smith voted against the amendment - she represents a strongly pro-Leave constituency - and the others voted for it.

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said: “I would like to thank Laura, Ged, Ellie, Tonia and Anna for their work with the Labour frontbench. I look forward to working with all five in a Labour government that invests in all our communities and gives real hope to our people.

“I understand the difficulties MPs representing constituencies which voted strongly for Leave or Remain have on the EEA amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill.

"The Labour Party respects the outcome of the EU referendum and does not support the EEA or Norway model as it is not the right for option for Britain. It would leave us with next to no say over rules we have to follow, it does not allow us to negotiate a new comprehensive UK-EU customs union and it fails to resolve the Irish border issue.

"But we are not voting with the government on this amendment because the Conservatives offer no plan for securing the full tariff free access to the EU's internal market, which is so vital for jobs and living standards in our country.

“Labour will continue to use every opportunity to hold the government to account and protect jobs, rights and living standards.”

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The Commons has voted to disagree with the Lords in their amendment 51.

Ayes: 327

Noes: 126

Majority: 201

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The Labour amendment is rejected, with 240 voting for it, but 322 against.

Now the House is voting whether to disagree with the Lords amendment 51 - which would require the government to make remaining in the EEA a negotiating objective.

Results in about 15 minutes.

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The Commons divides to vote on amendment A to Lords amendment 51.

This amendment states that the UK should have "full access to the internal market of the European Union, underpinned by shared institutions and regulations, with no new impediments to trade and common rights, standards and protections as a minimum".

The result is expected around 7:45pm.

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Labour's Stephen Kinnock says "we cannot let this government turn this country into a UK version of the Cayman Islands", and that EEA countries do not directly fall under EU law and do not have to follow EU Court of Justice rules.

EU negotiator Michel Barnier has said that the UK can still reject rules from the EU under EEA, he adds.

The overarching purpose of the EEA is for economic relations, rather than the EU which is an ever closer union, he adds, which he says would take the UK relationship back closer to the original purpose of the EU.

He urges MPs to vote for an "EEA based Brexit," which is the only type of Brexit which has a hope of "reuniting our deeply divided country", he says.

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With around 50 minutes of debate left, Solicitor General Robert Buckland has just intervened to say that he has "listened very carefully" to arguments about the Dubs Amendment and the government "will look again" at it.

He says the government will lay an "amendment in lieu" in the House of Lords when the bill returns there.

The Dubs Amendment commits the government to negotiating a deal where unaccompanied child refugees can still join relatives in the UK.

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Conservative Antoinette Sandbach says she's sick of names being thrown at people who voted remain like "remoaners, traitors, mutineers" and of seeing peers "attacked for doing their constitutional job".

She says we need a "much more serious level of debate" for how to do Brexit.

"I accept that we're leaving," she says, but "won't accept the damage that would be caused by a hard brexit, I will not support it".

She says she'll support the government amendment on "a customs agreement" in votes tonight. She says she will support closer relations with the EU because the people of Britain "voted to leave the political institutions of the EU but maintain our relationship with it".