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Labour peer Lord Soley says Vote Leave's slogan of 'Take back Control' was "not just about immigration".

"It gave voice to a feeling that the British people were losing control of making their own laws", he says.

He says this would not be resolved by a second referendum, nor would disagreements over EU membership disappear if there were a majority to remain.

He calls for the Article 50 process to be extended, which he says would "give us time to negotiate in a more sophisticated way".

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Labour MP Ruth Smeeth says she voted to remain in the EU but her Stoke constituency voted to leave.

"They did not vote leave because they are thick or stupid, they thought it was right and had good reasons," she adds.

Ms Smeeth says "we have a responsibility to deliver the result" and so she wants to support a deal.

But she adds that the government's current agreement does not provide "certainty on the economy and assurance on our sovereignty".

She declares she cannot vote for a deal "which leaves so many unknowns for my constituency".

She calls on the government "to try again".

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Conservative peer Lord James of Blackheath says he regrets that the decision on approving the deal is left to MPs, adding: "I'm not sure I have that degree of trust in them".

The House of Commons is "committing an act of treason" by even considering a deal that hands over so much sovereignty, he says.

Those pushing for a second vote would have "a bit of a surprise", he says, as the mood of the country has "hardened" and the result would be even more in favour of leaving.

He says he would favour carrying on negotiating, adding: "Europe's never had to put up with a second innings".

"They have no experience of it being put to a second round and we should really hammer it to them."

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Labour MP Joan Ryan says she "deeply regrets" voting to trigger Article 50 as the government is "pursuing a policy that will damage our country for generations".

She says that people have the "right to change their minds" and the majority of people support holding another referendum.

"Families are struggling just to keep their head above water, I am not willing to gamble with their livelihoods and our economy to satisfy the fantasies of hard Brexiteers," she adds.

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Labour's Lord Morris of Handsworth, a former trade union leader, says British workers have benefited greatly from EU membership.

He says the government's deal provides no certainty that these rights will not be swept away after Brexit.

"I want more than a non-binding declaration on workers' rights", he adds.

The future of the country cannot be determined "by a conversation between our prime minister and Mr Barnier", he argues, but should be made by Parliament.

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DUP MP Ian Paisley says his constituency of North Antrim voted convincingly to leave the EU, and has "a huge economic drive going on, particularly in the agrifood sector".

"These people didn't vote to leave on a point of stupidity; they did it on knowledge, because they knew the club they were in for 40 years was failing them."

"Businesses want change and more innovation," he adds.

"Stuffing Northern Ireland to an adjunct of this kingdom is not good for anybody", he says.

He asks ministers "to help us find an alternative" to the backstop.

Dozens of Tory MPs are set to vote against the Brexit deal - can any be won over by the PM's words on the backstop?

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Labour MP Gareth Snell says MPs should honour the referendum and that a second referendum would do "nothing but entrench the divisions that exist in our society further".

Mr Snell says the "abnormality" of the debate is that "everyone has made up their minds".

The prime minister's deal "is dead, it is sunk, it is no more", he says, adding that what MPs "should be doing is looking at how we can heal the nation as a whole".

Gareth Snell says the debate has focused on process, and his constituents want to know "how they are going to feed their kids".

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Conservative peer Lord Suri says the agreement secures an end to the freedom of movement, the continuation of which would not have been acceptable to Leave voters.

He voted Remain, he says, but the negotiations have "shown the EU to be inflexible", whilst the "lack of democratic control is astounding and worrying".

The UK has a great future outside of the EU, he adds, and he will be voting in favour of accepting the withdrawal agreement.

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Liberal Democrat Baroness Faulkner of Margravine says that if the UK is to leave the EU, the agreed divorce bill must be paid.

"No one would ever trust our good faith if we did not fulfil our past obligations", she says.

The idea that the ultimate decision on the withdrawal agreement should be made through another referendum "is with the fairies", she says.

"We've had broad instructions from the electorate", she says, adding that she supports the agreement.

If Parliament is unable to back the deal, she says, the deal agreed with the EU by David Cameron should be considered, and perhaps returned to the people.

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Labour's Albert Owen says he "cannot support a fudge deal that weakens the UK and makes people poorer".

The Anglesey MP says his constituency voted to leave by a majority of 715, but here is "here to represent the whole constituency, including those too young to vote in 2016".

"Great Britain goods going to the EU would be considered third country goods with this deal," he adds, stating that he has seen "no evidence that this deal will be better than what we have today".

He says MPs must look to the younger generations and the long-term future, and calls for the government "to look again, go back to Brussels" - or have an election, or further referendum.

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Conservative MP David Morris says MPs would have "snatched the Europeans' hands off" for the government's deal after the referendum result was first announced.

He accuses MPs from his party of having "mixed up this issue with themselves" and leadership bids "that have been and gone".

"We have to grasp this nettle...and move forward", he says.

The chair of the 1922 committee tells BBC Newsnight he wants clarity on the Northern Ireland backstop.

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Tory peer Baroness Noakes says she "longs to be out of the EU, but not on the terms of this agreement".

She says she agrees that "neutralising British leverage" was one of the main reasons the EU insisted on a binding backstop, as it places all power in their hands.

"We would have taken back control of very little", she says.

She acknowledges that leaving without a deal will damage the UK, but adds that this is an outcome that should be "accepted and prepared for in earnest".

The PM has said MPs could be help deciding if the UK should go in to a Northern Ireland "backstop".

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Tory MP Nigel Huddleston says businesses in his constituency have said they want him to accept the deal, as "it offers stability."

"The overwhelming opinion is this deal is not great, but let's accept it and move on," he says.

Mr Huddleston says "if we vote down this deal, worse things will happen". He says he will support the government's deal at the vote next week.

"We can cope with a lot that is thrown at us, but why make it more difficult when we are faced with the clarity of the deal?", he asks.

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Labour MP Stephen Twigg says the political declaration on the UK's future relations is "vague, uncertain and tells us very little on the key issue of frictionless trade".

He says it is clear that the Brexit deal will be defeated next Tuesday.

He says "rejecting the call for no deal and seeking a customs union and strong single market deal" is "the way forwards".

He says if MPs cannot "come together" around a deal with cross-party support, there will be "no alternative" to another election or a further referendum.

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Conservative MP Johnny Mercer says he has never spoken in the Commons chamber about Brexit before and has "avoided the subject like the plague".

He says he has always been "ambivalent" about the UK's exit or membership, but the current situation "represents a total failure of political class".

"I came here because I couldn't watch my country have a politics dominated by a political class out of touch with the nation they governed".

He adds that he "liked the shockwave" sent through "the establishment" after the 2016 vote.

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"We are good negotiators, why is it that we have not been able to reach an agreement which people can agree?", Labour peer Lord Parekh asks.

It is a result of an "ambiguous attitude" towards Europe, he says, which has "systematically paralysed" the UK and restricted its ability to work well with the EU. This attitude is "extremely disappointing".

Parliament should decide in a free vote, he says, and if they cannot reach a clear majority one way or another then it should be put to the people.

But this should not be called a second referendum, he adds, as that would be seen to overturn the first one. It would be an "independent" referendum, that would only "complement" the first.

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Marsha de Cordova says she has watched the government's "shambolic" approach to the Brexit negotiations with "growing alarm".

Leave campaign promises have been "denied", dozens of ministers have "quit", and two Brexit secretaries have "come and go", she says.

"We have seen a government spend more time negotiating with itself than with the European Union".

She says that throughout, the government has looked to "avoid scrutiny, evade transparency and duck responsibility".