Brexit - as it happened: Corbyn faces Labour rebellions as MPs vote on EU withdrawal bill
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Your support makes all the difference.MPs have debated for a second day on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, with key votes expected on plans by peers for membership of the single market and the customs union.
A potentially explosive rebellion over customs arrangements appears to have been headed off for the moment by government whips, but pro-EU Conservatives are thought to be keeping their powder dry until the trade bill comes to the Commons next month.
Attention now turns to Labour as scores of MPs are expected to rebel against Jeremy Corbyn over a Lords amendment that would effectively keep the UK in the single market.
It comes after prime minister's questions descended into chaos when the SNP’s leader in Westminster was expelled from the chamber and his party performed a mass walkout.
Ian Blackford was kicked out when he attempted to force a vote to make the Commons sit in private in protest over the lack of time to debate key devolution issues during the bill's session on Tuesday.
During the session, Jeremy Corbyn tackled Theresa May on Brexit as he attempted to highlight divisions within the Conservative party.
Mr Corbyn also mocked the prime minister asking whether she has invited Donald Trump, the US president, to take control of the negotiations in Brussels – a reference to Boris Johnson’s recorded remarks last week.
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The European Parliament’s Brexit chief has branded leading Brexiteers as pro-Putin “fifth columnists” who want to destroy Europe from within.
Guy Verhofstadt said there was a “circle of evil around our continent” stretching from “Putin, Erdogan, and on a bad day – and that’s every day at the moment – even Trump”.
Story from Europe correspondent Jon Stone here:
Labour whips expecting there to be 8 votes on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill later today.
Last-ditch wrangling by Tories over the EU (Withdrawal) Bill has brought shame on those involved, John McDonnell said, as he acknowledged Labour was walking its own "tightrope" over Brexit.
The shadow chancellor said Labour's position was a "traditional British compromise" aimed at the concerns of both Leave and Remain voters.
In a speech to City leaders he also urged businesses to speak up about their concerns with the Brexit process.
Mr McDonnell also sought to allay business concerns about the prospect of a Labour government, insisting that he would be "open and transparent" about the party's policies and there was "nothing up my sleeve".
Mr McDonnell told TheCityUK conference: "Having witnessed what happened in parliament yesterday, I thought it was shaming for the politicians involved.
"We have a prime minister that will be going off in a couple of weeks' time to meet other European leaders - in what could be the penultimate round of discussions to get in place a new arrangement for our relationship with Europe - unprepared and undecided as a result of some of the parliamentary activity yesterday."
But he acknowledged Labour's own difficulties on the issue: "We are walking on a tightrope at the moment.
"We campaigned for Remain but many of our MPs, including myself, now represent seats which voted heavily Leave."
Labour was "trying to bring the political reality of that vote to leave in line with the economic reality of what the consequences of that will mean in practice for jobs and living standards and sectors of our economy".
"We are trying to construct at the moment a traditional British compromise and we are trying to drag as many with us as possible both in Government and elsewhere around some key elements of that compromise," he said.
Theresa May is on her feet and starts by talking about Grenfell Tower anniversary tomorrow. She also wishes the England football team luck in the upcoming World Cup.
PMQs started 5 minutes late today.
Tory MP Mark Harper asks about Brexit, saying many people voted to leave the EU to clamp down on immigration so it is based on people's skills rather than where they are from. He says the EEA amendment to the bill later is an attempt to bring in unlimited free movement.
May agrees, and says the government will end freedom of movement.
Jeremy Corbyn is up and also says he wishes the best of the luck to the England football team. He says he hopes it foes really, really well... and England win.
He also pays tribute to the Grenfell victims and then says it is disgraceful that many people are in temporary housing. He chooses to go in on Brexit.
MPs roar with laughter when Corbyn asks if May has listened to Boris Johnson about letting Donald Trump take over the Brexit negotiations. He is referring to comments made in a leaked recording last week.
May looks absolutely furious.
She chooses to dodge it and answers his question on Grenfell instead, saying everyone has been offered temporary accommodation.
Corbyn then asks about the EU backstop plan - saying which December are we actual going to leave?
May says he is wrong to call it a transition and says it is the EU backstop. The government is working hard to ensure the customs arrangements prevent a hard border.
He replies: "I'm not sure if it's a backstop or a back slide?" Corbyn also asks when the white paper will be published.
May tells MPs to calm down and it will be published after the June EU summit.
Corbyn says why can't it be a green paper so everyone can comment on it?
May says July comes after June. Makes a big play about being exasperated over his lack of understanding. If Corbyn wants to talk about division, she can tell him that it is Labour members circulating instruction manuals on how to deselect Labour MPs.
Corbyn goes in on Boris' leaked comments again. He asks if there is going to be a 'meltdown'?
May says the Tories are going to deliver on the will of the British people.
Corbyn says Boris lives in a parallel universe and her cabinet is divided and briefing against eachother. He says the white paper is non existent, the transition has been extended and she climbed down on the EU withdrawal bill yesterday.
He says there are major economic problems and asks how much damage she is prepared to do to the country before she puts aside the clashing egos in her party.
May says Labour want to frustrate Brexit. She says Labour's last spell in government left the economy in tatters. She makes a gag about the Labour Live event coming up, saying its ironic that the headline acts are John McDonnell and the Magic Numbers.
SNP's Ian Blackford says May has enacted a major 'power grab' over Brexit and accuses her of creating a constitutional crisis. It comes after key devolution amendments were left with only 15 minutes of debate.
May says Holyrood will see a significant increase in decision-making power and only the SNP would say getting 80 more areas to look after was a power grab. She blames Labour for manoeuvring to hold so many votes at once.
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