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Brexit: May faces Tory call to resign as she addresses MPs about delay until October – live news | Brexit: May faces Tory call to resign as she addresses MPs about delay until October – live news |
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Labour’s Mary Creagh says May will not get a stable majority for any Brexit legislation in the Commons unless she includes plans for a people’s vote, which she says is Labour policy passed at conference. | |
Jonathan Djanogly, a Conservative, asks if there is a structure to the talks with Labour. Will MPs know more after the recess? | |
May says, if the UK is to pass a deal in time to stop it needing to take part in the European elections, a timetable will apply. | |
Labour’s Chris Bryant asks May is she plans to keep this session of parliament going until 31 October. | |
May says her focus with parliamentary time at the moment is getting her deal passed. | |
Antoinette Sandbach, a Tory pro-European, says her constituents are pleased to see the government in talks with Labour. She says a survey after the referendum showed only 35% of people who voted leave thought that would mean leaving the single market and the customs union. And she tells May he confidence and supply partners, the DUP, are undermining confidence and not supply the votes. | |
Labour’s Karen Buck asks May when she will decide whether she can bring forward an EU withdrawal agreement bill. | |
May says it will depend how the talks with Labour go. | |
Sammy Wilson, the DUP MP, asks May to name any issues on which the UK said no to the EU. | |
May says she resisted a Northern Ireland-only customs union, and she resisted demands for an exit bill of £100bn. | |
Alistair Burt, the Tory pro-European, asks May if she will allow free votes in an indicative votes process. | |
May thanks Burt, who resigned recently from the government, for his work as a minister. But she sidesteps his question. | |
Labour’s Owen Smith says May would get her deal through parliament if she attached a people’s vote to it. | |
May says she has already covered this. | |
Chuka Umunna, the former Labour MP who now sits with the Independent Group, says May has put her party before her country. Will May face down Brexiters in her party and consider a people’s vote. | |
May says she has answered this already. | |
Labour’s Stephen Kinnock asks for an assurance that full membership of the single market through the EEA will be an option in any indicative ballot. | |
May says the UK does not need to be a full member of the single market to gets its benefits. | |
Richard Harrington, the Tory pro-European, asks May if she will use a preferential voting system if she needs to hold indicative ballots. | |
May says she would discuss this with Labour. There are a number of options, she says. But she would want a system that provided a clear result. | |
Labour’s Peter Kyle says MPs seem increasingly fearful of the electorate. Isn’t it time for MPs to investigate how they can use public ballots to bring people through ballots, and how they can lead people with facts? | |
May pays tribute to the way Kyle has championed a confirmatory ballot. But she says no one is running scared of the electorate. Many people would see a second referendum as a sign of bad faith, she says. | |
May says she thinks a second referendum would increase division just at the time when the government needs to bring people together. | |
Labour’s Stephen Doughty says trying to decouple a vote on her deal from a vote on a confirmatory vote will not be acceptable to many Labour MPs. | Labour’s Stephen Doughty says trying to decouple a vote on her deal from a vote on a confirmatory vote will not be acceptable to many Labour MPs. |
May says she thinks MPs agree they do need to deliver Brexit. | May says she thinks MPs agree they do need to deliver Brexit. |
Mark Francois, the Tory Brexiter, says “perseverance is a virtue, but sheer obstinacy is not”. What will May do if Corbyn collapses the talks and calls a confidence motion? | Mark Francois, the Tory Brexiter, says “perseverance is a virtue, but sheer obstinacy is not”. What will May do if Corbyn collapses the talks and calls a confidence motion? |
May says she will continue to argue for the Conservatives to remain in office. | May says she will continue to argue for the Conservatives to remain in office. |
UPDATE: This is from the former Labour MP Ian Austin, who now sits as an independent. | |
Mark Francois wins today's award for self-awareness by telling the PM that "sheer obstinacy" is not a virtue. | |