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"I am really, really sick of the way the government has gone about this," says Labour's Jess Phillips.

She says the government has offered MPs the choice of "my way or the highway - and the highway is rocky and bad"

She accuses the prime minister of being too "scared" of voters to tell them Brexit "is really bad for the country".

Turning to the European Research Group, she says they are only interested in voters in her constituency "when they back up their idea of northern town leave voters, they don't want them so much when they need to give them welfare."

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Tory Brexiteer John Redwood says Brexit means taking control of the UK's laws and the UK being able to set its own priorities.

He says the sooner the UK does this, the sooner the economy will prosper.

17.4 million people voted to leave, Mr Redwood says, and "they were told many things would be damaging or wrong if they left, but the public said to the experts 'we don’t believe you' and the public were right about the short-term forecasts, as jobs went up not down."

"This is not a no-deal exit we are talking about, this is a many deals exit," Mr Redwood says, adding that is is "wrong to scaremonger and frighten people".

It's been all go again in Westminster, for protesters and MPs alike. Here are a few pictures from the day.

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Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts says two questions need to be asked if the UK asks for an extension to Article 50.

The first being how long and the second, what for?

He says the EU would need "credible answers on both counts".

Mr Lamberts says he would advise the EU to tell Theresa May to come back in a month with a "game plan", then they can decide the length of an extension.

"I think you can forget about two years," he says.

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Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith says the people voted to leave and it is the job of MPs to deliver that.

He says for this reason he shall support Damian Green's amendment f.

Mr Duncan Smith says he does not believe the prime minister's deal is dead, and that he thinks it was made "almost impossible" to vote for yesterday due to the Attorney General's paragraph 19 in his legal advice.

Mr Duncan Smith says he is not in favour of extending Article 50 "just for the sake of it", and says the EU "would not agree to this".

He says he would not vote for an extension without a purpose, which is what the so-called 'Malthouse Compromise' provides.

The point of the extension is to meet the practicalities of getting arrangements into place ready for the process of managed withdrawal - without a withdrawal agreement - he concludes.

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Ms Truss suggests that Mrs May's Brexit deal could be brought back to the Commons and win majority support.

"I think it is still alive, I do," Ms Truss says.

"Ultimately, when you look at the alternatives - which are a customs union, no Brexit or no-deal - Theresa May's deal is more attractive than those other three options.

"I think that's the conclusion MPs will ultimately come to."

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Conservative George Eustice recently resigned from the government in order to support a no-deal Brexit.

He now tells MPs that: "We have to have the courage as a country, having taken this big decision, to take our freedom first and continue talking afterwards."

"I was dealing with no-deal preparations until very recently; we know that the EU, in the event of a so-called no-deal, will in fact seek some sort of informal understanding that there wouldn't be much change for nine months."

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Chief secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss says compared to the other options discussed, the prime minister's Brexit deal "remains the best option".

"I’m not sure a delay really solves anything and I’m incredibly frustrated MPs didn’t vote for the deal last night," she says.

"I don’t like no deal, but I think we need to keep it on the table for negotiating purposes."

Ms Truss says the prime minister has "worked tirelessly to get this deal" in response to whether someone else should take over as prime minister.

"The problem we've got at the moment is not Theresa May," she says.

"The issue we’ve got is a minority government, a whole bunch of people who don’t like Brexit…

"Let’s deal with the issue in hand rather than open up a massive can of worms."

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Labour's Yvette Cooper says there are container ships on their way to the UK which do not know what customs paper work they will need when they arrive.

"There are border officials who rely on databases to screen for sex offenders who don't know if those databases will be available to them in a few weeks time," she says.

She adds that a no deal would be "a hammer blow to the heart of our manufacturing base".

That, she says, is why MPs have a responsibility to oppose a no-deal Brexit.

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Conservative MP Damian Green stands to move his amendment (f). It requests:

• The government publishes a tariff schedule
• An extension of leaving to 22 May 2019
• 'Mutual standstill agreements' between the UK and EU until the end of 2021, including payments to the EU
• A unilateral guarantee of citizens' rights

Mr Green says the House has to agree a deal and that deal has to be acceptable to the EU.

This amendment focuses "on a long term goal", he says.

"We could pass motions ruling out no deal until we’re blue in the face but it’ll make no difference unless there are options that this House will support," Mr Green adds.

"We need ways out of this impasse - this is one," he concludes.

As the debate opened earlier, Michael Gove warned that re-imposing direct rule for Northern Ireland from Westminster was a "real possibility" in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Devolved government in Northern Ireland collapsed in January 2017 after a row between the power-sharing parties.

The environment secretary said direct rule would be a "grave step" the government would have to consider.

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The Telegraph's deputy political editor says Mrs May was behind the suggestion.

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Dame Caroline Spelman tells BBC Radio 4's PM: "It’s because I know that the two main parties are going to put their weight behind a no to no deal amendment, the government motion.

"And that would produce a far bigger majority than I was able to achieve with my backbench amendment at the end of January.

"And that’s a big prize. It sends a very strong signal - the party’s coming together in the national interest to make a clear statement that we do not want to crash out without a deal.

"I think it will pave the way to us working together to get a deal."

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Chair of the Exiting the EU Committee Hilary Benn says today is the moment when two and a half years of the "nonsensical" slogan "no deal is better than a bad deal" will finally be defeated.

The argument for rejecting a no-deal is simple, he says, "it would inflict the greatest damage onto our economy."

Mr Benn says a no-deal would be bad for the country, and would impact businesses, jobs and manufacturing.

Given what happened yesterday, today is the next step before the inevitable decision tomorrow to apply for an extension to Article 50, Mr Benn adds.

He says he believes MPs will vote to reject a no-deal on the 29th March, and "will never vote to leave the EU without a deal - not today and not ever".

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Next to speak is Dame Caroline Spelman, who is the main sponsor for amendment (a) which was selected by the Speaker earlier.

She says the government's motion - which also states opposition to no deal - affords a greater opportunity to get a large majority of MPs behind it.

She says she would therefore like to withdraw her amendment.

However Speaker John Bercow intervenes to say she can't withdraw the amendment because it hasn't yet been moved.

It is possible for other MPs who have signed the amendment to do so, he adds.

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BBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young tries to shed some light on the complicated matter of which amendments we can expect MPs to vote on later.

She says Dame Caroline Spelman has said she won't push for a vote on her own amendment, which would take no deal off the table completely. However, some are now saying someone else might push that vote.

There's also talk of meaningful vote #3 coming down the track and Mrs May has called her cabinet to a meeting before tonight's votes, she adds.

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Ivor Ferguson, President of Ulster Farmer's Union, says a hard border with Ireland could hugely affect business if tariffs on exporting were put in place.

Listen to live Brexit coverage from 5 Live on BBC Sounds.

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SNP's Europe spokesperson Stephen Gethins says next week the UK will be 1000 days on from the EU referendum and is now 16 days away from exit day.

Promises that leaving the EU would be easy and seamless were not kept, Mr Gethins adds, asking who should be held to account for the promises that were made.

Michael Gove should be "ashamed" of the role played by Vote Leave, he says.

"Democracy has been let down, and let down badly," Mr Gethins says, adding: "This is not just a Tory civil war, it is a problem for us all."

The SNP will not support a no-deal Brexit, he says, adding: "Staying in the EU is the best deal."

"It may be that we will need to accommodate the British authorities and the British society, and extend this period a bit;maybe there is a need for more time for reflection," Mr Czaputowicz is reported as saying.

Article 50 was triggered by Theresa May at the end of March 2017 and means the UK will leave the EU on 29 March.

The UK is allowed to stop the Article 50 process completely - but if it wants only to extend it, all other EU countries must agree.