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Tory MP Sir John Hayes says "the exercise of power must be accountable", something the European Union lacks.

"Never did I have someone come and say to me: this is good news for Britain, it came from the European Union."

He says MPs must stand in the way of those who seek to thwart Brexit, "we must stop the liberal establishment".

"We stand now ready to deliver the expectations of the British people or frustrate them," he tells MPs.

"Live up to what the people ask you to do, don't support the deal tonight, but back Brexit and make sure we leave lock, stock and barrel."

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Labour MP Sir Mark Hendrick says any progress will require consensus across the House and not a "take it or leave it approach - amounting to blackmail".

Sir Mark says it is essential that the government extends Article 50 "to give us more time", or even revoke it "until this country are decided on what arrangement the UK should have with the EU".

He adds that if the government cannot listen and cooperate with people of all sides of the House then a general election must be held and "the people must decide".

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Tory MP Phillip Lee - who resigned from the government in opposition to Brexit - says he cannot vote for the withdrawal agreement: "Neither this Brexit, nor any other form of it measures up to what was promised in 2016."

He says people chose leave without knowing many of the implications: "to be honest, I was one of them".

"I want no part in this act of self serving act of chicanery," he adds. "There is only one way out of our mess, that is to ask the people to decide."

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Shadow exiting the EU minister Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town says that the duty of the Lords is to "offer our advice" on leaving the European Union.

She argues that food and energy prices will go up under a no-deal Brexit. She asks if the government has listened to car manufacturers. The UK's security is "jeopardised" under the deal, she argues.

Over a million UK citizens in the EU are suddenly "in limbo" overnight, under a no-deal, she warns.

"To those who say we're crying wolf, may I remind them, that that four-legged beast did turn up," she says.

"No deal must be emphatically rejected," she adds, "these are serious, precarious times."

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Labour MP Danielle Rowley says like her, many of her constituents think the deal is bad for the economy, puts the country's future at stake, and puts question marks over food and health and safety standards.

"We have a responsibility in this place to protect people's jobs and services," Ms Rowley says, "but we must not tell people they got it wrong."

Ms Rowley adds that the government's immigration policy which measures pay is "not fair".

This deal would undermine opportunities for young working class people, she says. "EU funding has helped to plug gaps and there is a real lack of provision for protecting this."

The Labour party is the only party trying to heal divisions in this country, she adds, announcing she will not be voting for the deal.

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Former Tory Brexit minister Suella Braverman - who resigned from government in opposition to the withdrawal agreement - says it gives her no pleasure speaking today as she has never rebelled before, but "this deal is not Brexit".

"Call me a pesky lawyer, but it does not stand up to scrutiny," she says.

Her parents were born under the British empire and admired the United Kingdom, she says, "one that was confident in the world, pioneering in statecraft and fearless in the face of adversity".

With so many MPs pledging to vote against the PM's Brexit plan, what are the options if Theresa May loses on Tuesday night.

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Labour MP Nic Dakin says 29 million people did not vote leave - "no wonder we are struggling," he says.

"People voted to come out, not to lose out," he says, noting that people have seen their shops close and feel neglected.

"They are right to feel neglected because they are," he says, "the result of the ideological pursuit of austerity."

Mr Dakin says the people want to be listened to and believed and "Brexit was the golden bullet to do it".

Pretty much nobody likes the prime minister's deal, Mr Dakin adds. "She hasn't listened to the people and should have reached out to all the opposition parties in the interest of national unity to find a way forward."

Mr Dakin adds that today there is "a government of headless chickens", and calls for a need for the protection of the union, a customs union, and for all views to be listened to.

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Tory MP Helen Grant says this week is "a chance to stop the madness", with an opportunity for pragmatism and compromise to prevail.

In any negotiation, there is a reasonable balance of barganing power, nobody ever gets everything they want. MPs were elected to make difficult decisions, she says - they cannot "shirk" the responsibility, the electorate needs them to "stand up and deliver".

"The withdrawal agreement on the table delivers for this country, I believe. For that reason I will vote for it."

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Labour MP Gordon Marsden says the deal lets down the ambitions of the young and the security of the old.

He questions how the government can take the chance to jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement, and says universities and the education sector will be badly affected by her deal.

Mr Marsden says Theresa May's Brexit deal will create "a desert of instability for years to come".

The prime minister is convinced she's some 21st century Joan of Arc hearing voices on what to do, Mr Marsden says, "but she's not, and has sat here too long for any good doing".

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Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson Baroness Ludford says that people need to look at the history of the Corn Laws for what will happen next to the Conservative Party.

She quotes from the 1997 Liberal Democrat manifesto, which said that "Liberal Democrats are internationalists".

She urges Parliamentarians to make domestic changes to the UK in order to solve the problems which caused people to vote Leave.

The Liberal Democrats hope that people will vote to stay in a second referendum, three years on, she states.

"To go against conscience is neither right, nor safe," she adds.

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Tory MP Boris Johnson says the big question is if Britain really going to leave.

"Are we going to embrace that future or are we going to be intimidated?" he says.

Mr Johnson says if MPs vote for Theresa May's deal "we will be blatantly negating the potential benefits of Brexit".

The only certainty is that the EU will keep us locked in the backstop until we comply with their wishes and "the whole debilitating wrangle will go on for years", he notes.

Mr Johnson adds that a second referendum is not the way forwards, and more rules would have to be taken from Brussels with a Norway model agreement.

"The public would accuse us in this place of deliberately frustating their wishes if Article 50 is extended," he says. "We cannot treat the public like idiots... they will see this stuff for what it is."

Mr Johnson says he hopes Theresa May comes back with a proposal similar to her principles outlined at Lancaster House, and holding back at least half of the £39bn 'divorce bill' until a free trade agreement has been agreed.

"We can flunk it, we can vote for this deal, and we would thereby confirm the worst suspicions of the British public about the cynicism of the elite, or we can get it right," he adds.

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Labour's Lord Radice says that the referendum result was a "great blow". He says what made it worse for him was the response from his grandchildren, who told him "your generation has ruined my life".

He says he has always accepted the result, but he has argued from the beginning that all parties should have worked together on the negotiations.

Lord Radice says that the deal has been impossible to strike because of Mrs May's own negotiating red lines, which he describes as straight from a "Brexiteer pamphlet".

"It would be an unmitigated disaster" if a no-deal is not voted down by the Commons, he adds.

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DUP MP David Simpson says his constituents feel like "the sacrificial lamb to placate the Irish Republic and the EU".

Mr Simpson says he is a proud unionist, and he cannot support the deal because of this.

"The way the EU has treated the fifth largest economy in the world is an insult."

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Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne says Parliament will stay in limbo until everyone agrees.

He says he will have to consider whether he wants to stand in a voting lobby with others who are there to vote down Theresa May's deal to prevent Brexit.

He adds that Theresa May's deal is better than staying in the EU as the UK will leave the Common Fisheries Policy.

"I will have to consider very carefully over the next 24 hours," he says.

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Former health minister, Lord O'Shaughnessy, says that he voted to leave the EU, and Parliament has made sure that the "default position" is that the UK will leave on 29 March, with or without a deal.

He says those passing amendments to try and stop leaving without a deal are performing "empty virtue signalling".

He says that there are risks with leaving without a deal. There are "concrete short term risks" to a no-deal Brexit.

He warns that "something more sinister" could happen if the UK instead remains in the EU.

He adds that the People's Vote campaign is only supported by those who voted Remain last time.

He says he is in support of the deal which has been struck.

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Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston says above anything else, the deal does not have a consensus with the British public.

"We cannot say there is valid consent until people have had the opportunities to weigh up the risk of this deal, of Brexit reality," she adds.

Ms Wollaston says she disagrees that another referendum would be a "travesty to democracy" as "no one ever said democracy was a singular event".

There are real concerns that one of the biggest donations in British political history may have come from laundered money from abroad, Ms Wollaston says, "these are serious concerns that in years to come will be questioned."

Ms Wollaston says the British public should be asked if this is what they meant by Brexit, or if they would rather remain on the deal the UK already has.

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Labour MP Barry Sheerman says "it is the most terrifying time to be an MP - the responsibility of protecting our constituents is so high."

He says he wants the UK to be successful, and that's how he will judge the deal.

"We can be successful through close cooperation across Europe in the EU, and I cannot support anything that takes us out of the European Union," he adds.

Mr Sheerman says he comes to the Commons to ensure the health and prosperity of his constituents are not harmed in any way, and "all the evidence shows my constituents will be worse off and poorer out of the EU than in."

"I do not want a poorer Britain or poorer constituents," he concludes.