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Labour MP Angela Smith says she is "quite frankly astonished" to hear the word "compromise" used so much during today's debate: "For two and a half years we've had no sign of compromise, particularly from the prime minister."

Compromise "only seems to have any meaning for the prime minister when it regards her deal", she says.

She voted against the Article 50 bill, she explains, because not enough time had been given to find a consensus, "and I have been proven correct".

"My feeling is that there is not going to be any consensus," she says. "We are going to be at an impasse" and the only way out of that is to put the deal to the people, she continues.

Despite being a remainer, she says she would very seriously consider voting for the deal if it was presented with an amendment that included a referendum.

"We do now know what leave looks like, two years ago we didn't know that."

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Conservative MP David Duguid says his constituency Banff and Buchan was the constituency in Scotland in which most people voted to leave the EU, yet he voted to remain himself.

He says, however, that he has always been determined to fulfill the will of his constituents.

Mr Duguid says he finds it "strange" that SNP MPs are so adamant that the deal will be bad for fishermen when the fishing agreement has not yet been agreed.

"We must stop using fishing as a reason not to back this deal."

He says the deal is not perfect, "but perfect must not be the enemy of the good", and "a good first step in making the opportunities surrounding the fishing industry into reality".

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SNP MP Mhairi Black says the PM "quite clearly has other options beyond her deal and no deal", and to suggest otherwise is "a piece of nonsense".

She says Scotland's vote to remain in the EU has been "cast aside as irrelevant", with Scotland treated a "no more than a province".

The SNP respect the result of referendums, despite claims otherwise, she says, and questions whether the government has shown the same respect for the Brexit result in Scotland.

She warns that calls for independence will strengthen as a result.

The Labour leader says Theresa May will lose the right to govern if her deal is voted down by MPs.

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Conservative Trudy Harrison says that she voted to leave the EU before she became an MP, adding she is "desperately ambitious for this country".

She says that control over laws and money is less important to her than the success of the UK.

The deal reached is "a skeletal framework" and each MP has the responsibility to "put the flesh on the bones," she says.

She says that nearly every member of her family works with the nuclear industry, which is why she says she appreciates the security that the withdrawal agreement gives.

She finishes her speech by confirming that she will support the withdrawal agreement, something she did not previously.

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Labour MP Maria Eagle says she will not be supporting the deal, as it is "a mess".

Theresa May has purposefully run down the clock to prevent anyone from having a say on the way forwards apart from herself, she adds.

She calls a no-deal Brexit "irresponsible, self-harming stupidity".

Ms Eagle says she will not vote to make her constituents poorer "just to get the prime minister off the hook".

She adds that if a general election cannot happen, "we should extend or revoke Article 50 to enable a 'people's vote' on the deal, with the option of remaining in the EU".

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Tory MP Royston Smith rejects calls for a second referendum: "we accept votes in this country, and we should accept this one."

Both his party and Labour stood on manifestos that promised to deliver Brexit, he says, telling MPs: "no Brexit at all is not an option...this place promised to honour the result."

If MPs attempt to overturn the result "or attempt to frustrate the will of the people they are not democrats and I have no idea why they are here."

He says if the backstop is taken out of the deal, he will vote for it.

"I made promises to my constituents and intend to honour them".

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Liberal Democrat Sir Ed Davey pays tribute to Paddy Ashdown, who is being buried today, who he says saw the EU and countries working together as a large peace project.

"He believed the European Union was a way of gluing people together," he states.

"Europe's energy and security strategy was written in my office in Whitehall," he says, adding that the UK had real "soft power" in Europe.

He says that the government's deal will mean the UK is locked in by "transactions and deals" rather than "relationships" with the EU.

"It's not clear what will replace" the deal if it is voted down on Tuesday, he says.

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Labour MP David Lammy says "we have a duty to tell our constituents the truth...we are trusted representatives, not unthinking delegates."

"Why do so many in this House continue to support Brexit when they know it will wreck jobs, our NHS and our standing in the world?"

"Brexit is a con", he says, and MPs must be honest about that.

Even promises on immigration, he says, "which has so greatly enriched our country", are untrue, he says.

Immigration will rise, not fall, as other countries will seek visas "and they will get them, because we will be weak".

He says MPs will reject the deal, because it is "a lose-lose compromise", they must not "patronise" those that voted to leave but tell them that they were "sold a lie".

"Blame us, blame Westminster, do not blame Brussels for our own country's mistakes and do not be angry at us for telling you the truth, be angry that those that sold you a lie", he says.

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Conservative Alex Chalk says that he promoted Remain in the 2016 referendum because 40 years' of work with the EU would be difficult to unravel.

He says he is "first and foremost a democrat" and even though Cheltenham voted to remain, he says the country as a whole voted to leave.

"This deal is a compromise, and that means it has positives and negatives," he states.

He says that a business owner in Oxfordshire has said the deal would give business the certainty it needs.

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Labour's Meg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, says the government is spending money on Brexit preparations every day.

She tells MPs she would support a second referendum if the Commons cannot agree to a way forward.

The government has been "very reckless", she adds, and the Northern Irish border was not discussed during the EU referendum debate.

On the Irish border, she says: "There are options, but none of them good".

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Tory Richard Benyon praises the speeches of Labour MPs John Mann and Caroline Flint.

He warns that those who support a no-deal Brexit are "playing with fire", urging a compromise and for MPs to get behind the deal.

If the deal fails, he will do what it takes to prevent no deal, short of supporting a second referendum, he says.

"There is no majority for no deal, and I really do urge people to listen".

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In a point of order, Labour's Yvette Cooper asks about media reports that any debate on the government's Brexit 'Plan B' would be "restricted to only 90 minutes".

Reports suggest, she adds, that the debate - which would take place within three sitting days of a deal being rejected - would only allow one amendment to be voted upon.

Government Chief Whip Julian Smith responds, telling MPs that "no decision has been made".

"The government will do everything that in can to ensure that the House is fully consulted on every eventuality next week", he adds.

Speaker John Bercow says the "default position" is indeed that such debates only last 90 minutes, usually with a "practical restriction" on the number of amendments.

He adds however that "such provision is often disapplied by an order of the House", and it is "open to the government" to allow a "much fuller debate".

He says he is confident MPs would "assert themselves" in such a situation - although he adds for the moment that the matter is still hypothetical.

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Labour MP John Mann says "the time for rhetoric has gone...the time for negotiating has begun".

"The weakness of the deal is also its strength", he says, which gives significant power to MPs, with much still to be left to be decided in terms of the future relationship.

People knew what they voted for, but they did not vote "for a race to the bottom, for the lowest common denominator, for lower wages, lower standards", he says.

"Now is the time for practical specific proposals of what people are in favour of precisely, not what they are against, but it what people are favour of."

He urges MPs to back his amendment, which commits the government to honouring EU workers' and environmental standards "provided for" by the withdrawal agreement.

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With that, the Brexit debate comes to an end and the House of Lords adjourns until Monday - when peers will have their third and final day of debate on the government's deal.