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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.
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP, says wasting the new extension on a Tory leadership contest would be “an unforgivable act of self-indulgence”. UPDATE: This is from the former Labour MP Ian Austin, who now sits as an independent.
Labour’s Pat McFadden says May has now acknowledged no-deal is unacceptable. But for two years she said that was better than a bad deal. By saying this, she normalised the unacceptable. Mark Francois wins today's award for self-awareness by telling the PM that "sheer obstinacy" is not a virtue.
May says she wants MPs to approve a good deal.
Peter Bone, the Tory Brexiter, says May told him at PMQs last month she would not consider delaying Brexit beyond 30 June while she was PM.
May says the Commons can honour that commitment by voting for a deal before 30 June.
Labour’s Liz Kendall tells May that “one more heave” won’t work. This extension should be used for a purpose. So will she put her deal to a referendum?
May says the way to break the deadlock is to pass her deal.
Here is some Twitter comment on what Nigel Dodds said about the prospect of this session of parliament being extended. (See 2.07pm.)
From Sky’s Faisal Islam
Back on Dodds - inconceivable that DUP would back a Queens Speech designed to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement, nor back WA in current form too, nor a Govt that has passed it. As they now say extension of Parliamentary session unacceptable - we are heading for a June crunch.
From HuffPost’s Paul Waugh
.@NigelDoddsDUP adds 'unacceptable' if current Parliament session extended beyond 2 yrs (and extension of session is rumoured).Of course if there is a new session, May needs a new Queen speech. Which the DUP can vote down if it wants..
From Sky’s Lewis Goodall
VERY interesting. Nigel Dodds warns May not to extend current session of parliament (which has already lasted for two years).Significnace of this is new session needs new Queen's Speech- which govt might lose. And, funnily enough, DUP deal runs out at end of *this* session...
Anna Soubry, the former Tory who is now an Independent Group MP, says she welcomes the extension, because it allows more time for a people’s vote. On which issue is May willing to compromise?
May says she is talking about this with Labour.
Steve Baker, the leading Tory Brexiter, says the government relies on the votes of the DUP. If it pushes through the withdrawal agreement with the backstop, will it rely on Labour votes in confidence motions.
May laughs. She says what she is doing with Labour is unprecedented. But she wants to get her deal through, she says.
Labour’s Kate Hoey asks May if she accepts any responsibility for signing up to a backstop that MPs would not support.
May says she thinks the backstop is something that should never be used and need never be used.
Labour’s Yvette Cooper asks May if she is willing to consider a common external tariff with the EU (a key part of a customs union).
May says the Commons has rejected a range of options. On a customs union, there is “more agreement [between the Tories and Labour] than is often given credit for”, she says. She says the language used sometimes obscures this. She says she wants this country to be in charge of its trade policy in the future.
May claims Labour and the Tories agree more on a customs union than people realise.
Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader at Westminister, says the EU said they would not offer an article 50 extension without a credible plan as to what the UK would do next, and without stringent conditions. But the EU backed down, and offered an extension without either of those applying. He says May should learn the lesson, and push for changes to the backstop. And he says extending this session of parliament until the autumn would not be acceptable.
DUP warns May not to try extending current session of parliament.
May says the UK has repeatedly pushed for changes to the backstop.