Brexit bill debate: MPs to debate workers rights as Theresa May faces Tory revolt - as it happened
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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to The Independent’s live blog on the latest developments from Prime Minister's Questions and the EU (Withdrawal) Bill debate.
In PMQs, Jeremy Corbyn launched attacks on Theresa May over funding for public services ahead of next week's Budget, using his questions to jump around from schools, to police cuts and funding for sprinklers in high-rise buildings.
Ms May had a lucky reprieve from PMQs last week due to a parliamentary recess, so the exchange was the first time she faced the Labour leader since the resignation of two of Cabinet ministers - Sir Michael Fallon and Priti Patel. However she mostly escaped pressure over chaos in her top team, with only one question on it from Labour's Angela Eagle.
Brexit loomed large over this week's clash - despite very few mentions in the exchange - which comes as MPs prepared for a second day of line-by-line scrutiny of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, the crucial legislation that will transfer EU law onto the domestic statute books.
More than 500 amendments have been tabled to the bill, which has laid bare divisions on the Tory benches, with former attorney general Dominic Grieve branding Brexit as "an extraordinarily painful process of national self-mutilation".
The Government defeated the first round of opposition amendments last night, one of which would have forced Ms May to offer a vote on the final deal to the devolved administrations.
This afternoon's debate will focus on amendments looking at regulations such as workers rights and environmental protections after Brexit.
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