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The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford says no-deal Brexit and could create "a recession worse than the 2008 financial crisis".

"The prime minister must rule out no-deal right here, right now," he says, asking why Theresa May is still "blackmailing this country".

Theresa May says the only way to take no-deal off the table is to vote for her deal.

Mr Blackford says Theresa May is "fooling no-one" and that Parliament "will not be bullied into a false choice of voting for her deal or no-deal at all".

He says the SNP will move an amendment during this afternoon's Brexit debate to rule out no deal - and says Scottish MPs can either support it or "betray the people of Scotland".

Theresa May says the amendment "does not deal with the issue", and that what has betrayed voters in Scotland is a Scottish government that has raised income tax and broken its manifesto promise and raised council tax increases.

"The real people betraying the Scottish people are the SNP," she adds.

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Jeremy Corbyn says people are having to access food banks "just to feed their children".

"Are these burning injustices a priority for the prime minister?," he asks.

Theresa May says the lowest paid workers have seen the "highest rise in their pay for twenty years" as a result of the national living wage.

"Working people always pay the price of Labour," she adds.

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Jeremy Corbyn says demand for the food bank in Hastings has gone up by 80% since Universal Credit was rolled out.

The town is the constituency of Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, he notes.

Mr Corbyn calls on the prime minister to end the two child limit, to end the benefit cap and to restore the Sure Start centres lost under her government.

Theresa May says the government wants to ensure the system is fair for those who need to use the system and for those whose taxes pay for the system.

A child growing up in a home where one of the adults work is five times less likely to grow up in poverty, she adds.

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Jeremy Corbyn says Universal Credit is driving people to food banks, and urges the government to stop the roll out of the scheme.

Theresa May replies that her government has made changes to universal credit including cutting the so-called 'tapering rate' and scrapping the seven day waiting day period.

She accuses Labour of opposing those changes.

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Jeremy Corbyn says as manufacturing industry is declining, skilled paid jobs are being lost.

Something is increasing, the income of the top 50 richest people in this country, he adds, asking if the prime minister will commit to "ending the benefit freeze" to help the poor who are "left worse off".

"Or does she believe that rising poverty is a risk worth paying?", he questions.

Theresa May says income inequality is lower than that inherited from the Labour government.

"That's Conservatives delivering for everyone," she concludes.

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Jeremy Corbyn says the Bank of England's forecast say there is a chance of the UK dipping into a recession.

"Does she blame her shambolic Brexit or her government's lack of an industrial strategy?," he asks.

Theresa May reiterates that a Conservative government has meant "persistent growth".

She adds that "a run on the pound" under a Labour government would be worse for the economy.

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Jeremy Corbyn says Labour strongly supports rapid dialogue between India and Pakistan to reduce the conflict before more lives are lost.

He says the Bank of England has forecast that growth this year will be the slowest for a decade, and asks if Theresa May blames her handling of Brexit or her austerity policies for this "damaging failure".

Theresa May says the expectation is that the country will have higher growth in the coming year than Germany, and that borrowing is at its lowest level since the late 1970s.

The Conservatives are delivering an economy fit for the future, she says.

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Opening PMQs, Theresa May says the UK government "urgently calls for restraint on both sides" after the escalation in the conflict over Kashmir.

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Theresa May has arrived in the Commons ahead of PMQs.

Mark D'Arcy
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The worrying thing about Theresa May’s Brexit announcement yesterday – according to one Conservative I spoke to – is that all the factions thought it was a win for them.

That, in turn makes them all rather twitchy about what the PM actually intends, and raises all kinds of detailed questions about whipping arrangements and the sequencing of key votes, further down the Brexit process.

So expect a lot of questioning today about what maybe the endgame for this stage of Brexit. Will the PM support this excellent amendment/ consider this option/ accept a longer delay/ sack dissident members of her cabinet who support the Brexit faction I don’t like? Et cetera, et cetera.

I don’t have great expectations that this process will generate a significant answer; Theresa May tends to default to well practised formulae, rather than venture anything new, but that doesn’t mean that her questioners are about to stop trying.

The opening question is from Labour’s Virendra Sharma – which may mean the subject of the India-Pakistan clashes around Kashmir gets an early airing (there’s an urgent question later) and Labour’s Helen Hayes has the ten minute rule bill, external, and may seek a prime ministerial view on her plan to reform the law on land valuation.

There seems to be quite a crop of loyalist Tories on the list of questioners today – so expect supportive questions from the likes of former deputy PM Damian Green, Conservative Vice Chair James Cleverly, and ex-cabinet minister Stephen Crabb.

Keep an eye on ex-minister Robert Halfon, who looks likely to raise the talks about extra funding for the areas represented by pro-Brexit Labour MPs – and go into bat for his Harlow constituency. This subject is a bit of an irritant for Conservative MPs, so listen out for the Tory reaction to what will doubtless be a very carefully phrased question.

Conservative MPs have managed to raise the subject of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party during several recent PMQs, and this week the Chris Williamson saga will probably come up – either from a Conservative or maybe from the Independent Group.

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The government has put down a motion in rather plain language, asking MPs to note the PM’s most recent Brexit statement and that negotiations are ongoing.

MPs have tabled amendments - alternative options - to that motion, setting out their proposals on what they think should happen next.

Speaker John Bercow makes the final call on which amendments are selected - we won't know which ones he chooses until the debate starts from around 13:30 GMT.

MPs behind the selected amendments will then decide later this evening whether to put them to a vote. They may decide not do, depending on what ministers say.

Voting is likely to take place around 19:00 GMT.

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PMQs will begin in around half an hour.

First however, business in the Commons has begun with questions to Wales ministers.

Hello and welcome to our coverage of events in Westminster today.

After her pledge yesterday of additional votes for MPs if her deal is defeated again, Theresa May will be back in the Commons at midday for Prime Minister’s Questions.

Immediately after this, MPs will debate the latest escalation in the Kashmir conflict.

This afternoon, MPs will debate a government motion on its Brexit negotiating strategy.

Backbenchers have tabled twelve amendments to that motion, giving MPs the chance to show their support for alternative approaches.

If Theresa May can't get her deal through Parliament, MPs will vote on ruling out no-deal or delaying Brexit.

That's where we leave our live coverage from a busy day in Westminster.

Earlier, Theresa May promised MPs a vote on either leaving the EU without a deal or asking for Brexit talks to be extended, if her deal is rejected again.

She told the Commons this means the UK will only leave the EU without a deal this March if there is "explicit consent in the House for that outcome".

Aleksandr the Meerkat gets a surprise mention in the Brexit debate when the prime minister uses his catchphrase.

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Labour Brexiteer Kate Hoey says Labour's alternative plan for Brexit, as set out in an amendment tomorrow, "will not get through".

She says she is "very much against" Parliament taking control of the process, as the electorate voted to leave, and "the fact is that Parliament is highly Remain".

She says the fact some MPs want to stop Brexit is making it "more difficult", but she adds that there is "not a majority in Parliament" for a second referendum.

Ms Hoey questions why the EU would give the UK anything more if Article 50 were extended by a few months, and says the idea of a second referendum is "so ridiculous".

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Former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine says that extending Article 50 means that hard decisions which need to be made today can be made tomorrow.

"It's just more uncertainty, there's a decision to be taken, and putting it off doesn't make the decision any different," he says.

He adds that a second referendum is becoming "more likely" as time passes.

"This is the most damaging thing that has happened to my country...it should be stopped, and it should be stopped now," he says of Brexit.

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Labour's Hilary Benn says today is a "significant moment" as the prime minister has "finally recognised" that there is no majority in Parliament for leaving the EU without a deal.

He says he believes the EU would "quite easily" grant an extension to Article 50. He says, as an option, "the only way to resolve this" is to go back to the British people.

He states that the referendum must be between May's deal and remaining in the EU.

The second referendum would be as a last resort, if Parliament cannot make any progress on trying to decide Brexit, he adds.