It's private members' bill day in the Commons
First bill is Stalking Protection Bill - Tory MP Sarah Wollaston's bill
MPs also debate Parking Bill
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Image source, HoCFormer foreign secretary Boris Johnson says Theresa May should "junk the backstop", which he says "makes a complete nonsense of Brexit".
The Prime Minister says the UK is "guaranteeing their commitment" to the people of Northern Ireland, and the deal reflects that.
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Image source, HoCConservative MP Justine Greening, who voted Remain, says "this is a not good deal for Britain at all".
She asks that if MPs reject the deal, which she says she believes they will, whether Theresa May would consider "going back to the British people to ask them their views".
Theresa May says people voted to leave, and it is important that politicians "deliver on that promise".
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The DUP's Sir Jeffery Donaldson says the EU is beginning to accept that alternative arrangements can be put in place to ensure no hard border on the island of Ireland, without the need for a backstop.
He says his party needs to see an end to the backstop if the prime minister wants their support. Those alternative arrangements should be put in place, he says.
Theresa May says she has repeatedly said that "none of us want to see the backstop being used". The best way to ensure that is to get the future relationship in place, she adds.
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Image source, HoCLabour MP Hilary Benn, who chairs the Brexit Committee, says the political declaration does not "provide clarity" about future trade relations and is not legally binding.
He asks if it is going to take the defeat of the prime minister's deal for alternatives to be found.
Theresa May replies: "the thing that would create most uncertainty is a failure to take and agree a deal which is going to be good for the UK".
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Image source, HoCDominic Raab, who resigned as Brexit Secretary over last week's withdrawal agreement, says people voted to leave the EU to "take back control of UK law".
It is "regrettable but inescapable" that the PM's deal "takes even more away", he says.
Ms May says this is the first opportunity she has had to thank Mr Raab for his work as Brexit Secretary - and the Commons erupts in laughter.
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Image source, HoCLiberal Democrat Leader Vince Cable asks how the prime minister can justify a clause in the document on medical safety, where he says she has agreed to "exploring the ability of co-operation".
"This is essentially an agreement to have an agreement and is pathetically weak, it will cause worry to millions of people who rightly expect high levels of health and safety measures," he adds.
Theresa May says: "we are not able to put legal text until we are no longer in the European Union".
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Image source, HoCThe SNP's Westminster Leader Ian Blackford says Scotland's fishing communities are being used as a "bargaining chip" in talks with the EU.
Mrs May replies that fishermen will get a "fairer share of fish" in UK waters.
She says the SNP's position on Brexit would "sell out" Scottish fishermen.
“You’re selling out Scotland’s interests”, shouts Ian Blackford in reply.
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Conservative Eurosceptic Sir Bill Cash says the declaration is "self-contradictory" as it insists on the sovereignty of both the EU and UK legal orders.
"Without control of our own laws, and by surrendering to binding rulings of the European Court", the agreement is not the Brexit people voted for, he says.
Mrs May says the declaration asserts the sovereignty of both sides, because this is exactly what will persist after Brexit.
"We will be a sovereign nation, we will no longer be under the rule of the European Court of Justice", she adds.
In situations where European law remains, an arbitration panel will ask an opinion of the ECJ on the interpretation of the law, but it will not be the ECJ that makes the decision, she adds.
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Image source, HoCTory MP Iain Duncan Smith says the UK may "fall into the Northern Ireland backstop as it is agreed at the moment" because of the separate withdrawal agreement announced last week.
He calls for Theresa May to see that the withdrawal agreement is "unworkable" unless it is amended "so that it is stripped out of the backstop and left with an open border".
Theresa May says the backstop and alternative arrangements "amount to our commitment to the people of Northern Ireland that there will be no hard border".
"There are a number of ways we can achieve that, and we're working with all of those," she adds, insisting: "the backstop would be a temporary measure".
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Responding to Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May says she doesn't believe he's actually read the political declaration.
The EU has conceded that there is a "spectrum" of options available beyond existing models, something they previously did not do, she says.
She goes through Labour's six tests one by one. Mr Corbyn says the agreement does not meet them - but she says it does.
"This is a good deal for the United Kingdom...he may want to play party politics; I'm working in the national interest", she adds.
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Image source, HoCLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn says the 26-page document outlining the political declaration presents "the worst of all worlds".
"What on earth has the government been doing for the last two years?" he says.
He jokes that the government has produced one page a month since the EU referendum in June 2016.
"This is the blindfold Brexit we all feared", he adds.
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Theresa May says there is an "explicit commitment to technological solutions" to keep the Irish border open in the future relationship between the UK and EU.
She says preparatory work on alternative arrangements to the so-called Irish backstop plan "would be planned before we leave".
The prime minister adds that Gibraltar’s British sovereignty "will be protected", and any future relationship agreed "must work for the whole UK family".
"The British people want us to move on, and the deal that will enable us to do this is now within our grasp", she adds.
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Image source, HoCTheresa May says the draft declaration is a good deal for both the UK and the EU.
She says it will mean "taking back control of our borders" and ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
The UK will "make our own laws", adjudicated on by UK courts, she tells MPs.
She says it makes explicit reference to an independent trade policy for the UK, and means the country will become an "independent coastal state".
She says UK negotiators have firmly rejected a link between access to UK fishing waters and access to European markets, adding: "we will not be trading off fishing rights for any other priorities".
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Image source, HoCMPs finish their debate on the Armed Forces Covenant - Theresa May has now arrived for her statement on the draft Brexit political declaration.
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