With 24 hours to go before MPs vote on her Brexit deal, the prime minister warns them about the dangers of voting it down.

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Labour MP Gerald Jones says Brexit is the most important issue of our time, and that 16 and 17-year-olds should have been given the chance to vote in 2016.

Mr Jones says the current deal has remainers and leavers in opposition to it, and "does not protect jobs, workplace rights or UK standards".

It also provides no economic certainty, he adds, noting that if the Treasury's analysis is accurate "everywhere will be poorer, but the poorest communities will be most affected".

"I cannot vote to inflict pain and hardship on my constituents," Mr Jones adds.

The Labour MP says he will vote against Theresa May's deal alongside any attempt to take the UK out of the EU without a deal "as this would be disastrous".

If the prime minister cannot "remedy this mess", Mr Jones calls on her to step aside.

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Tory MP Julian Sturdy says the final Brexit settlement must be a compromise between Leave and Remain, whilst still delivering Brexit.

"This attitude of give and take is the foundation and lifeblood of any successful democracy."

However, he says he has "significant concerns" about the backstop: "We would risk going into talks with one hand tied behind our back...the deck ultimately will have been stacked in the EU's favour."

He says he cannot support the deal for that reason, but he doesn't believe no deal or no Brexit are suitable alternatives. He hoped changes would be made by the prime minister, but at the moment, as it stands, it is unacceptable.

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Labour MP Rosie Duffield says people are angry with MPs as they were "led to a cliff edge wearing a blindfold by a reckless privileged few and told to jump not knowing how soft or hard the landing".

Ms Duffield says Canterbury's universities are the biggest employers in the area and rely on a close relationship with Europe.

She says Brexit will affect the education and tourism industries in Canterbury greatly.

Ms Duffield says companies are uncertain about their future, and the prime minister should have done more to reassure them.

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Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg says the problem with the withdrawal agreement is that it "doesn't do what the Conservative party said we would do".

The UK must be free of the European Court of Justice, he says, "because this is a political court" which has the power to overrule Parliament, but the withdrawal agreement does not deliver that.

"The advantage of leaving the European Union is that we can make these decisions ourselves," he says.

"There will be a cascade of people going into the lobbies to vote against this bad deal.

"With this withdrawal agreement...we risk denying ourselves these extraordinary opportunities and risk taking ourselves away from the electorate, who we promised to deliver Brexit for."

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Labour MP Kevin Brennan says from the start the prime minister "failed to seek to embrace the 48% who were on the remain side".

Mr Brennan says the prime minister's snap election has backfired spectacularly, and that other parties should have been consulted over negotiations as well as the DUP.

"What we are seeing now is a political fatberg," he adds.

Mr Brennan says the country need "a new government and a new prime minister to clean up this mess".

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Conservative MP Conor Burns says the referendum is "the collective judgement of the British people, and as democrats that result deserves our respect".

He criticises calls for a second referendum: "We've already had the second referendum."

The gap in between the previous two was reasonable, he says, and another referendum needs time before it can be considered.

"Stick it in your diaries: we'll have the referendum in 2057. You cannot make a once in a generation decision every three years."

Brexit was a "great cry from the heart and soul from the British people. Too many people believe this country not working for them."

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While this motion has no real power, the Lords have voted to reject the deal and also no deal, by approving the Labour amendment.

Contents: 321

Not contents: 152

Majority: 169

The motion to pass that the House had considered the Withdrawal Agreement, as required under the 'Meaningful Vote' was approved without a vote.

With that, the Lords adjourns.

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SNP MP Deirdre Brock says "Britannia no longer rules the waves."

She says there is a "fond imagination" that WTO rules give the UK freedom, when, she adds, "the truth is the WTO rules are like a bear pit, and it's economic muscles that matter."

Scotland wants to stay in the European Union, she says, noting that as the government is clearly in gridlock over Brexit, the people should have a say.

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Peers are currently voting on the Labour motion, below, from today's order paper.

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Conservative Dame Cheryl Gillan says she voted leave, but the majority in her constituency voted remain.

She voted to leave because it is "quite obvious to me that the EU is going in the wrong direction for this country".

"I want a country that is led by Queen and country, not by people from abroad," she says, adding that she quite happily would have walked out with no deal straight away.

She says she must support the withdrawal agreement, as it is now the best option available.

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Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill says the deal will affect the universities in her constituency.

She notes that one in 10 nurses in the West Midlands are from the EU, and asks for a guarantee that "so called low-skilled or unskilled workers will still be able to come from the EU".

Ms Kaur Gill says "blindly following an ideological desire to severely cut immigration will lead key industries closer to breaking point."

She adds that companies are already cutting jobs in preparation for Brexit and are citing lack of clarity in the prime minister's deal for doing so.

The PM urges critics to give her Brexit deal "a second look" but Labour says she faces "humiliating defeat".

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Government spokesperson Lord Keen of Elie begins his speech by simply saying "trust and compromise".

He says that the negotiations are being "belittled" and have been carried out to the best of abilities of officials.

He adds that the Liberal Democrats stood on a platform at the last election of remaining in the EU, and won 12 seats. There are more Scottish Tory MPs than there are Liberal Democrat MPs, he says.

He says it is wrong to reverse the decision of a referendum before it has been implemented.

He adds that those calling for a second vote do not want to hear the voice of the people, but instead want to hear a remain victory in another referendum. He asks what would stop a further leave vote from causing the same People's Vote group to ask for another vote.

He says that the withdrawal agreement "is not perfect" but that it should be approved by the Commons.

With that, the Lords divides to vote on Labour's motion, which rejects no-deal, but also rejects the deal reached by the government.

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Conservative Sir Henry Bellingham says he would prefer "a clean Brexit" with no backstop, "a clean break", but "we actually got 52%, so it was always going to be a compromise".

"100% Brexit was never really a realistic expectation," he says, expressing support for the deal.

"It does stop the vast payment, it closes down free movement, it gives us control again of fisheries and agriculture, and most importantly it provides a stepping stone for the future trading relationship.

"Frankly if I'd been offered this in 2016...I would have taken it at the time," he says.

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Labour MP Peter Kyle says the prime minister could have found ways to involve the public "in the Brexit challenge".

Mr Kyle says if the prime minister had truly listened to the House she would have heard that concerns about immigration and economic security were raised more than the backstop.

"This has been another wasted month of precious Article 50 time," he says, noting that with this deal, Theresa May "has taken the great out of Great Britain".

"Government may be paralysed but it is time we turned outwards to the people," Mr Kyle concludes.