Green Party MP Caroline Lucas says she's "delighted" the UK avoided "the catastrophe" of a no-deal Brexit, but says it is only because EU leaders "seem to have our best interests at heart rather than our own government which is a bit ironic".

The MP for Brighton Pavilion said: "We should be going back to the people with a people's vote, we've got enough time to do that, and I think with everything people now know, they should be asked whether they got what was originally promised."

Ms Lucas also advised Labour to "listen" to their party, and to commit to a people's vote, if that's what the party wants.

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The BBC's Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming has been giving some insight into how the EU arrived at the 31 October date for a Brexit delay.

He says one group of countries led by Germany and the Netherlands favoured a long extension of Article 50, possibly until March next year.

But a smaller group of countries, led by France, wanted a shorter delay.

"The date that was spat out by the compromise machine was 31 October," he adds.

An extension to the Brexit deadline does not take a no-deal scenario "off the table", the director of the Institute for Government has said.

Bronwen Maddox says: "It removes the cliff edge this week, it gives exhausted MPs, civil servants, a bit of time to breathe.

"It probably gives time for a Conservative leadership contest to begin, but it doesn't solve the question of what kind of relationship the UK is going to have with the EU and it doesn't take no deal of the table."

Asked whether a Conservative leadership contest was likely, she adds the question is whether they try to get one around the time of the party conference in September.

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said the Brexit delay agreed last night is a "good thing" because "we needed it".

"Businesses will be very relieved that we are not leaving tomorrow without a deal," he tells a reporter earlier this morning.

He says talks with the government are ongoing, but there is "a long distance between us" and "some real challenges" to be overcome.

He adds there would be "no point" brokering a compromise with ministers, only for Theresa May to hand over to "an incoming PM who doesn’t honour the agreement that’s reached".

"At the moment we are trying to break this impasse - that’s what we are trying to do," he adds.

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Graham Tallis, boss of fish wholesalers GT Seafood, says: "We don't think anything's moved on. [It's an] absolute shambles.

Speaking from this morning's fish auction in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, while buying some haddock, he says: "It's a crazy situation to put us all in.

"We were all preparing for Friday, we've got all the systems in place, now we're told it's all on the backburner.

"We'd spent a lot of money, extra staff to do all this work.

"We don't know if we're coming or going, simple as that.

"We want a decision made, let us know which way to go and that way we can plan our business for years to come."

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The SNP's Joanna Cherry asks Attorney General Geoffrey Cox about what discussions have taken place within the cabinet about holding another referendum.

Geoffrey Cox replies that he won't divulge the details of cabinet meetings but that discussions with Labour are "being pursued in good faith".

"There are no preconditions to it," he says.

"Of course we will listen to any suggestions that are made, whether it be about a second referendum or any other matter," he adds.

The leader of the DUP Arlene Foster and Eurosceptic Conservative MPs Iain Duncan Smith and Owen Paterson said nothing to waiting reporters as they arrived at the Berlaymont building in Brussels ahead of talks with the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

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In the Commons, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has defended the potential cost of having to hold European Parliament elections.

Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois asks how it makes sense to spend "£100m of taxpayers' money" to hold elections, when police and school budgets are under pressure.

Mr Cox replies that he understands Mr Francois's "frustration", admitting that to the "outside eye" it doesn't look "sensible" to hold elections.

However he says this is a legal obligation for as long as the UK remains an EU member. The way to end this is to endorse the PM's deal, he adds.

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According to this ministerial response , externallast May to a question asked by an MP, not holding elections this year was meant to save the UK "at least" £109m.

This is based on the cost of holding the elections last time they were held in 2014, which the government says, external was £108.7m.

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Elizabeth McKenna, a florist in Nottingham, says: “It makes no difference to my day-to-day trading because we’ve had no real understanding of what would happen post-Brexit.

“Effectively kicking the can down the road means we can get on with business as usual for a given period of time.

“I am trying at the moment to secure some new supply contracts directly from Holland, so this does give me a bit of leeway to secure some prices for this quarter.

“Maybe it will give me a bit of an opportunity to say ‘look, we’ve got business as usual for the next six months, can I get the prices down?’”

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European Union leaders have granted the UK a six-month extension to Brexit until 31 October.

But how did this happen? BBC Brussels Reporter Adam Fleming explains all.

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Rachel Hallos, a cattle and sheep farmer from West Yorkshire, tells Radio 5 Live she is "absolutely delighted" the UK is not leaving on Friday without a deal.

She added: "That would be a disaster for agriculture, or so all the information leads us to believe.

"Again, it's this uncertainty, it's the not knowing - what direction should we head in as a business."