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Labour MP Yvette Cooper stands to move amendment (a), of which she is a signatory.

The amendment (a) from Labour MP Jack Dromey and Conservative Dame Caroline Spelman changes the wording of the government motion to "this House rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a Withdrawal Agreement and a Framework for the Future Relationship".

Earlier Dame Caroline told MPs she wanted to withdraw the amendment, because Theresa May's government motion would do the same job.

But she was told by Commons Speaker John Bercow that she could not withdraw it because other signatories could "persist with it".

The result is expected at around 19:15 GMT.

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Mr Fox says that during the debate the UK has been portrayed as "inept and intimidated".

He says he does not recognise the picture that has been painted.

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Mr Fox accuses Labour of displaying "nothing but inconsistency" on Brexit issues, including over freedom of movement and having a second referendum.

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International Trade Secretary Liam Fox says there are some MPs who seek to "defy" the result of the referendum.

"We in this House need to understand the democratic disaster that would await us if we supported that course," he warns.

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International Trade Secretary Liam Fox is now concluding the no-deal Brexit debate on behalf of the government.

As the Speaker selected two amendments to the motion, if both are pushed to a vote by the MPs that tabled them, there will be three votes this evening.

We will find out imminently which amendments are being pushed to a vote this evening.

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My Pennycook says Labour will support Caroline Spelman's amendment.

He says this could be MPs' "last chance to make a no-deal Brexit an impossibility".

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Mr Pennycook accuses the government of "endlessly repeating the nonsensical mantra that no deal is better than a bad deal".

That, he argues, "desensitised many people in this country to the risks involved".

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Shadow Brexit minister Matthew Pennycook now begins his wind-up speech.

He tells MPs it is hard to "overestimate how damaging a no-deal Brexit would be".

"It would be nothing short of a national disaster," he says.

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Earlier in the debate Caroline Spelman told MPs that she would not push her amendment to a vote.

Her amendment rejects the UK leaving the EU without a deal under any circumstances.

Although Dame Spelman said she would not push her amendment to a vote, another MP can.

Labour's Catherine West has now said that she would be keen to move it "unless others can persuade me otherwise".

The Black Country voted overwhelmingly in favour of Leave. Diners at a local pub give their view.

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The Independent Group MP Anna Soubry says the government is forcing Brexit on the country and that it is "shameful" that they are making the positive case for no-deal.

She adds that if the UK faces a hard Brexit, she "hopes the public seek to put the blame where it lies".

"I will not be part of that," Ms Soubry says, noting that a no-deal Brexit would damage the country.

Ms Soubry says people respect others if they are honest: "They don't thank you for spin or false promises."

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Conservative Andrew Bridgen says nothing has been said about what has been done by the government to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.

He points out that the government has hired 9,000 civil servants to work on preparations and allocated £4.2 billion for no deal.

He argues that the UK needs to "keep no deal on the table in order to bring the EU to heel".

"No deal is our only insurance to getting out of the EU," he says.

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People who have been backing Brexit have been "chasing unicorns" for a "very long time", Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has said.

Speaking in Washington DC as part of his annual St Patrick's Day visit, Mr Varadkar said: "As we head into the next few weeks it should be blatantly obvious that unicorns only exist in fairytales.

"I would say to people who advocated Brexit - is this really what they wanted? Protectionism, borders, tariffs, restrictions on trade. Is this really what Brexit was all about?"

Ahead of the vote on whether MPs are prepared for the UK to leave without a deal, he told media: "Westminster can take the no deal off the table this evening, and if they do so then there is the potential to look at alternatives, for example the UK staying in the customs union."

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Green MP Caroline Lucas says that "psychologists" will spend "years" examining why the current "masochism" took over Parliamentarians.

"It certainly is going to hurt our constituents," she says, adding that "we know of the illegalities of the Leave campaign".

"We are being played for fools here," she says.

"I think we need to have an honest conversation with the people of this country," she says, urging there to be a "new social contract".

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Conservative Dominic Grieve says "it seems plain to me that no-deal would be very damaging to this country indeed".

He says that the UK would be "seriously economically disadvantaged by it".

"You smash up the China first, and when you aren't satisfied with the China you have smashed, you smash up some more," he states.

Revocation of Article 50 and cancelling Brexit is not something he says he wants to do without another referendum.

"We are eventually going to run out of time," he warns.