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Gemma Tetlow, chief economist at the Institute for Government, says the chancellor's statement was "as expected, a very low-key statement" with "no serious" tax and spend commitments.

She says the chancellor "hinted at better prospects in the event MPs agree a Brexit deal - 'a deal dividend.'"

She says the Treasury has been putting away money to "cushion the impact of a no deal" but Mr Hammond suggested this money could be "freed up" if MPs supported a deal to leave the EU.

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More from the shadow chancellor's attack on the Spring Statement.

John McDonnell says Mr Hammond is "boasting" about reducing the deficit but "he's simply shifted it on to the shoulders of headteachers, NHS managers, local councillors and police commissioners and, worst of all, onto the backs of many of the poorest in our society".

He also criticises the additional funding announced for the police, saying police budgets have been cut by £2.7bn since 2010.

On the Brexit vote later, he accuses the chancellor of trying to "cajole MPs into voting for the government's deal".

He adds: "What we need now is for the chancellor today to stand with us to vote to take no deal off the table and to stand in cabinet against those that are trying to force us into a no-deal situation."

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Shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett says the government has failed to reach out to Labour to find a consensus on Brexit.

"It takes two to tango and the fact is the government won't tango," he says.

He accuses ministers of being "pigheaded" and failing to respond to Labour's efforts to find "a reasonable way forward".

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BBC Radio 5 live's Lesley Ashmall is in Dover. She's been speaking to William and Linda, who are out shopping.

William says: "MPs so far have made a real dog’s breakfast of (Brexit), and they’ve made me very angry quite frankly… The only way forward is leave without a deal."

He acknowledges there will be problems with no-deal, but adds: "How else can you go forward?"

William voted Leave in the referendum: “I wanted a deal. At the moment, the situation is that there’s only one way forward, and that’s a no-deal.”

Linda says: “It annoys me greatly because they’ve had a long time to sort this out and we just seem to be going nowhere with it.

“There doesn’t seem to be anyone making any real decisions and we’ve reached a stalemate."

She says she wouldn't like another referendum because she voted Leave "and I’m still for coming out".

What about an election? "I think it would just make things more unstable than they already are at the moment."

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Foreign Office Minister Rory Stewart says he will not be voting for the amendment facilitating the Malthouse Compromise, arguing that "it is not legal under EU law".

"It is not going to address fundamental issues around citizens rights or the backstop," he says.

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Graham Brady - chair of the 1922 Committee which represents Conservative backbenchers - urges the prime minister to "restore discipline around the cabinet".

"Our government can't function properly if you don't have collective responsibility," he says.

In February cabinet ministers threatened to resign unless the government removed the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is now responding to Philip Hammond's statement.

He's not holding back.

"We have just witnessed a display by the chancellor of this government's toxic mix of callous complacency over austerity and... mishandling of Brexit," he says.

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BBC political correspondent Ben Wright has been talking to Conservative MPs about what they think should happen next.

Damian Green supports the Malthouse Compromise which he says offers "a practical way forward" and means the UK avoids "crashing out on 29 March".

George Freeman says joining the European Free Trade Association would allow the UK to stay in the single market but leave the country free to do trade deals.

Anna Soubry argues that "the only way out of this mess is a people's vote".

Ken Clarke's preference is for Article 50 to be revoked but says "there is not the slightest chance" of that happening.

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The chancellor announces free sanitary products in schools and colleges in England from the next school year.

Period poverty, in which where teenage girls can't afford to buy tampons and sanitary pads, has been in the spotlight recently.

An extra £100m is to be made available to police forces over the course of the next year "to pay for additional overtime targeted specifically on knife crime", the chancellor says.

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Speaking to Radio 4's World at One, director of the Hansard Society Ruth Fox says the result from today's motion on a no-deal Brexit would only be "an expression of opinion".

She says in order to remove the possibility of a no deal MPs either have to vote for the withdrawal agreement or they have to decide to revoke Article 50.

"Or they have to seek an extension to Article 50, but to seek an extension they have to have a purpose about what the extension is for," she adds.

At the moment, she says, the House of Commons is "paralysed with the complexity of this".