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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the PM's proposals are just a "rehashed version" of the withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Theresa May, and are actually "worse".

He tells MPs: "Deal or no deal, this government's agenda is clear, they want a Trump-deal Brexit... that would crash our economy and rip away the standards that put a floor under people's rights at work [and] protect our environment."

He adds: "No Labour MP can support such a reckless agreement that would be used as a spring board to attack standards and rights in this country."

For most of those Tory MPs who did not vote for Theresa May's withdrawal agreement, the Irish backstop - the insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border on the island - was the main sticking point.

So how does Boris Johnson's border plan differ from the backstop?

BBC News NI's economic and business editor John Campbell has a look.

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Mr Johnson says the previous withdrawal agreement "would have permanently anchored the UK within the orbit of EU regulation and customs arrangements".

He tells MPs this government has a "different vision".

"We have shown great flexibility," he says.

"If our EU neighbours chose not to show corresponding willingness to reach a deal then we will leave on 31 October.

"It will be a failure of statecraft which all parties would be responsible."

The PM has faced criticism - from Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson among others - that his attempts to get a deal were a pretence, something he denies...

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Boris Johnson tells MPs the proposed new deal is "based on a shared determination to sustain the Belfast Good Friday agreement... the highest priority of all".

Key to the plans, he says, is "getting the consent of the people of Northern Ireland".

"Northern Ireland will be fully part of the UK customs territory but not the EU customs union.

"There will be no need for checks at or near the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland".

The prime minister adds that he has made a "guarantee the UK government will never conduct checks on the border" and he "believes the EU should do the same".

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Boris Johnson says his plan for Brexit would "honour the referendum".

Addressing the Commons for the first time since his proposals were submitted to the EU, the prime minister said he had always wanted to leave with a deal.

But these plans showed a "seriousness of purpose".

"It has not delivered everything we wished," says Mr Johnson.

"But it is a genuine attempt to bridge the chasm."

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The prime minister has stood up in the Commons to present his Brexit proposals to MPs.

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European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud tells reporters in Brussels that, in his phone call with Boris Johnson, Jean-Claude Juncker "stressed that the Withdrawal Agreement must have a legally operational solution, not arrangements that are to be developed and agreed in the transition period afterwards".

She added: "This solution must meet all the objectives of the backstop, which are: preventing a hard border, preserving north-south co-operation and the all-Ireland economy and protecting the EU's single market and Ireland's place within it."

The PM is due to give a statement on his Brexit plans - presented to the EU yesterday - any minute now.

He has, however, yet to arrive in the Commons chamber. Jacob-Rees Mogg is currently taking business questions.

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will speak to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar later today.

The commission said the phone call follows yesterday's conversation between Mr Juncker and Boris Johnson on the PM's Brexit plan.

This morning's cabinet meeting is over and the PM is now making the short trip over to the Commons ahead of his statement to the House.

The Commons speaker is rejecting calls from concerned MPs to give his voice a rest and let someone else take the chair. Here's a clip from earlier...

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Commons Speaker John Bercow has just launched a defence of Parliament after Attorney General Geoffrey Cox refused to apologise for labelling it "dead" in last week's fractious debate on the unlawful prorogation of Parliament.

Mr Cox, pictured above, told the Commons: "When this Parliament assumes its responsibilities to pass a Withdrawal Agreement then I might reconsider but certainly not at the moment."

But Mr Bercow responded: "I completely respect the right of the attorney to his view, this Parliament is entirely legitimate, is doing its work, it should be expected to do so and no amount of cheap abuse and vituperation directed at this Parliament will stop it doing its job.

"That's the way it is, that's the way it'll continue to be, and that's the way it has to be."

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Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says the government's proposals set out to the EU are "serious" and are recognised by EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier as such.

He says both sides "recognise that it is better to have a deal" and negotiations "will have to be intensively done in the next few days".

There will be further talks on Friday "subject to how today unfolds", he adds.

Ahead of next week's protests in London, environmental group extinction rebellion are making their mark on Sajid Javid's office.

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Irish Minister for European Affairs Helen McEntee says there are "concerns" and "obvious challenges" with the plan tabled by Boris Johnson - but hinted there was potential for progress.

"I've always said there are grounds for a deal but there are key objectives we need to meet: protecting the Good Friday Agreement, and to prevent border infrastructure, protecting the economy and the single market," she says.

"The European Commission are still pouring over the plan, as are we, I think from initial look there are some concerns about the proposals but it is a basis for discussion, but we have to be clear that our objectives are clear and they won't change."

Adam Fleming
Brussels reporter

The EU has been pretty open to the UK government's Brexit plan and they've welcomed the fact that proposals have been made, they've not rejected them straight away and there are going to be further talks.

People in Brussels are quite in favour of one big part of this proposal - that, if it ever came into force, Northern Ireland would follow lots of EU single market rules for food, agriculture and goods.

Their concerns, however, fall into three categories.

One, this is not what the EU would call an operational solution - there are still lots of questions to be answered, lots of gaps, particularly when it comes to the customs checks.

Two, the EU is worried about the impact on what it calls the all-Ireland economy - that is all those deep economic and personal links between the north and south.

Three, they're concerned about giving a whole load of extra power to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont - is that a veto for the Democratic Unionist Party, in particular?