Theresa May says there is a "shared determination" to solve the Irish border problem after talks.

A no confidence motion is a government-killer - and a new report points to ways in which MPs could install a new government and new PM.

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MPs now turn to the debate on fuel poverty, which is being opened by minister Richard Harrington.

The debate happens every year. It is due to last until 7pm.

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Summing up the debate on the consideration of the Lords amendments to the Ivory Bill, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Therese Coffey says "the killing of these beautiful animals must stop".

Ms Coffey says "we have committed to researching into trade in ivory from animals other than elephants and we will get full evidence before deciding the next steps."

"We must continue to save wildlife wherever it may be, and this bill is a proud moment," she concludes.

The bill passes without division and will now receive royal assent.

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SNP spokesperson Dr Lisa Cameron says "we're working together towards implementing important and stringent measures to protect elephants for generations."

She says the bill must be "as tight as possible" and says the "unscrupulous nature of ivory poachers" needs to be curtailed.

"This is an issue that affects some of the most vulnerable and poorest people in our world," she adds, stating that "this bill must be applied across the UK as stringently as possible."

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Shortly before the Commons began considering Ivory Bill amendments, SNP MP Stewart M. McDonald raised a point of order with the Speaker, accusing veteran Labour MP, Dennis Skinner, of calling him "a piece of shit".

Mr Skinner sits in front of Mr McDonald in the Commons, and allegedly made the remark during the emergency debate, after the SNP MP told a party colleague that he wished Jeremy Corbyn would answer a question.

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Mr McDonald said he'd tried to deal with the incident informally but Dennis Skinner showed no signs of regret. He asked the Speaker to "re-affirm that it's wrong and can you re-affirm that members on all sides should be able to go about this place without being at the tail end of that kind of abuse".

The Speaker John Bercow said he'd advised the MP to deal with the matter outside the debating chamber, and would "not presume to comment on a conversation I did not hear".

He said MPs should be able to disagree with one another "agreeably or reasonably agreeably" and whilst he didn't want anyone to be abused he'd known Dennis Skinner for 21 years and held him "in the highest esteem".

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Opposition Spokesperson Sandy Martin says that "unless there is a step change" in the way African elephants are treated in the wild then "there will not be any African elephants in the wild".

The UK is still a "major exporter" of ivory products despite new rules, he states. Many ivory dealers are illegally declaring their items as vintage and therefore not subject to new rules on selling, he says.

"We are making an important step here today, let us not stop with elephants," he finishes.

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Therese Coffey is now introducing the Ivory Bill for MPs to consider the Lords amendments.

The Ivory Bill aims to prohibit commercial activities concerning ivory in the UK, and prohibits the import and re-export of ivory for commercial purposes, to and from the UK.

Ms Coffey says this bill "is an important bill" which aims to curb illegal poaching and prevent the extinction of African elephants and the growth of the black market ivory trade in recent years

She says among the government's amendments are an attempt to ensures that licenses for ivory items acquired before the law comes into force will remain valid, and that only an "appropriate national authority" can authorise licenses for protected ivory items.

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Following a division, MPs have voted against the emergency debate motion.

299 voted against the motion, with zero voting in favour.

The motion was neutral and non-binding, so has no consequences.

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Summing up the debate, leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn says "over the past two and a half years we have had a government exercising its contempt for Parliament."

He says the purpose of the motion was so that the House could express its anger at the way the government has treated it, but also to express concerns at the government's strategy.

"This government is not taking Parliament seriously and is in danger of taking us closer to a cliff edge no deal Brexit which will be incredibly damaging for the whole country," he says.

Jeremy Corbyn says the prime minister says "tomorrow the government needs to either bring a vote here or get out of the way and let somebody else take this issue seriously and negotiate properly on behalf of this country."

MPs divide to vote on the emergency debate motion, although the motion has no effect.

The cross-party People's Vote campaign also wants UK and EU planning to start on a new referendum.

Senior Conservatives are annoyed by what they see as Ireland's outsized role, says Newsnight's Nick Watt.

A man is Tasered by armed officers in an incident inside the grounds of Parliament.

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SNP Martin Docherty-Hughes says he would never have expected to see Conservative MPs "threaten the DUP with a united Ireland" or to argue that parliamentary democracy might as well have ended with a coup d'etat, but that's the situation the Commons is in.

Tory MP Huw Merriman points out that MPs are "having a debate about why we didn't have a debate yesterday and a vote tonight about not having a vote tonight", and questions how any member of the public is going to be able to make sense of this.

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Conservative MP Anna Soubry says "for the government to speak about compromise at this late stage suggests there has been a failure to understand the situation at times before".

Ms Soubry says it pains her to say it, "but the blame lies in the leadership of the party", with the prime minister and the Cabinet.

"The government has always been trying to please members of the ERG, who are acting as a party within a party," she adds.

She says a 'People's Vote' is the only way out.

We are hearing plenty of voices raised against Theresa May today - and not always the usual suspects.

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The prime minister's U-turn sparked anger among MPs on all sides, who had spent three days debating the deal and had been promised the final say on it on Tuesday.

Buzzfeed , externalhas claimed Mrs May had informed some EU leaders about her plan to abandon the vote on Sunday - well before she told the cabinet.

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More backbench Tory MPs are considering submitting letters of no confidence in Theresa May in the hope of toppling her and forcing a Tory leadership contest.

If she was no longer Conservative Party leader she would also be expected to step down as prime minister.

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Tory MP Maria Miller says this is a "wholly unacceptable use of parliamentary time".

"Members need to collectively grow up and realise any agreement requires compromise and that is what the prime minister is seeking to achieve," she says.

Ms Miller adds that "no deal is still on the table" and that a second referendum is "an abdication of our responsibility".

"The withdrawal agreement, whether you like it or not, is what Brexit looks like in reality, backstop and all," she says "and the prime minister is right to pause proceedings."

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Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams says that a no deal would be a "disaster for the people of the United Kingdom".

Wales and other parts of the UK have suffered under poverty from austerity, "a vote to remain has to be a vote reform," he states.