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Conservative MP Justine Greening says "there isn't a consensus in this House and we do now face gridlock."

She says: "I do not believe it is going to change", calling for an extension of Article 50.

Mrs May says there will be a further meaningful vote on the deal.

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Conservative Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash says delaying Article 50 would "incur many billions of pounds of taxpayers' money" being handed to the EU in that time.

He says the proposed bill from Labour MP Yvette Cooper would act against the will of the people and the referendum result.

Theresa May says she wants to see a deal that MPs can support by 29 March.

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Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable says "simply postponing a cliff-edge for three months is pointless".

He commends Mr Corbyn for calling for another vote on the deal. He asks her to rule out no deal.

Mrs May says that there are only two ways to rule out no deal, and that is to vote for a deal or to revoke Article 50.

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Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Yvette Cooper, says that "promised votes have been pulled before...Commons motions have been ignored before".

The Labour MP asks what assurances Parliament has that government and cabinet will abide by votes from MPs.

Mrs May says that she has returned to the Commons to discuss Brexit when she said she would.

She says any extension must be unanimously agreed by all other 27 EU states.

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Conservative MP and Chair of the Treasury Committee Nicky Morgan says today's statement "cannot have been easy" for the prime minister, who is determined to honour the result of the referendum.

She says uncertainty is "crushing" for businesses, and asks if Theresa May can confirm if a deal is "eminently possible" if there can be alternative arrangements or changes to the backstop.

Mrs May says "we do have it within our grasp" to get an agreement that allows the UK to leave the EU with a deal on 29 March.

MPs have a responsibility to deliver on the referendum result in the best way possible, the prime minister concludes.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn describes the prime minister's handling of Brexit negotiations as "grotesquely reckless".

Theresa May tells MPs she does not want to extend Article 50 but MPs will get to vote on delaying Brexit if they reject her deal and a no-deal exit.

Former Labour MP Chuka Umunna and former Conservative Sarah Wollaston have reacted to the prime minister's announcement this afternoon.

They are two of the 11 former Tory and Labour MPs who left their parties last week to set up a new Independent Group within Parliament.

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Labour's Hilary Benn, who chairs the Brexit select committee, asks if the prime minister realises that there will be "no majority in the House for leaving with no deal".

He asks what the extended time will be used for.

Mrs May says that she is working with this extra time to make sure that the deal is acceptable to MPs.

If MPs don't want to leave without a deal, then either Article 50 should be revoked or a deal must be agreed, she finishes.

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Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith says a deal is the preferred option.

He says that it is clear behind closed doors that UK government officials and the EU recognise that what is in the backstop is "unworkable" and that alternative arrangements "will have to be implemented".

He calls for the alternative arrangements to have a deadline date and "be bound illegally" so they cannot remain from that point after the UK leaves the EU.

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The SNP's Westminster Leader Ian Blackford says that the SNP "are already putting in place candidates for the European elections".

He says that Parliament has lost a further "nine [sitting] days" in delaying the vote until the 12 March.

"Your strategy to run down the clock is disastrous," he states. "We can't trust this prime minister."

Mrs May replies to say that the government is "taking the time to negotiate the changes required" by MPs.

She says that if the SNP want to "end the uncertainty...then he should vote for a deal, simples".

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Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke says he will vote for any withdrawal agreement Theresa May manages to get to avoid no deal, but that he "doubts" any agreement will be achieved in the near future.

Mr Clarke questions how long the delay of Article 50 will be, saying: "She is merely giving us a new cliff edge date."

He calls for indicative votes to see where a consensus lies, and then for the government to "prepare for long-term negotiations".

"We cannot have several more years of the last two and a half years," he concludes.

Mrs May says she does not want to see an extension of Article 50, but if it is needed, she wants it to be "as short as possible".

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Responding to Mr Corbyn's comments, Mrs May says that the government "are in discussions with the EU" on changes to the backstop.

She adds that the UK should make decisions on workers' rights in Parliament, as UK governments "have consistently given" better rights to workers than those agreed by the EU.

"If he wants the benefits of a customs union," she says, "then those are there" in the deal that has been agreed between the UK and EU.

"My sole focus throughout all of this has been on getting a deal that enables us to leave the European Union on the 29th of March with a deal," she states.

She finishes by saying that a second referendum would be "betraying the trust of the British people".

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Jeremy Corbyn says any extension of Article 50 is only necessary because of the prime minister's "shambolic negotiations" and decision to run down the clock.

"If the government wants a genuine renegotiation it should do so on the terms that can win a majority in this House," he adds, noting that these terms are contained within Labour's amendment.

Concluding his speech, Mr Corbyn urges MPs to back the frontbench Labour amendment to the Brexit motion tomorrow.

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Mr Corbyn says Labour's alternative deal is based around a customs union, close alignment with the single market to protect trading sectors, and keeping pace with workers' rights, environmental protections and consumer safeguards, he states.

He says many on the government front bench see Brexit "as an opportunity to rip up these vital protections".

He adds the Labour Party "believe in our alternative plan" and the May deal was "comprehensively rejected" by MPs.

He says they "believe there must be a confirmatory public vote".

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Jeremy Corbyn says the final agreement must be laid before MPs before it is voted on, but questions how it can be voted on in the House if the EU has not agreed any final exit.

He questions whether MPs will be voting again on the same documents as last time.

"The real life consequences of the prime minister's cynical tactics are being felt across the country," he adds, noting that the responsibility "lies exclusively with the prime minister and her government".

Mr Corbyn says the prime minister is still "unclear" about what she wants, while Labour has a "credible plan" that would bring the country together.