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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Here's a quick summary of some of the key Lords amendments that are up for debate today.
European Economic Area - 51 + a
The key amendment today, tabled by Labour peer Lord Alli. This would make remaining in the EEA a negotiating objective - effectively keeping the UK in the single market.
The government disagrees. So does Labour, which has tabled a watered-down version (a) that says the UK should have 'full access' to the single market.
MPs will vote on these first at around 7.30pm. Expect a possible Labour rebellion as Jeremy Corbyn has told MPs to abstain on the Lords amendment. Pro-EU MPs are having none of it.
Customs union - 1 + 2
Tabled by Lord Kerr, these amendments compel the government to negotiate a customs union with the EU before the end of October.
Ministers have tabled a different version, which requires them to negotiate a customs arrangement.
Family reunion for unaccompanied child refugees - 24
This amendment is put forward by Lord Dubs, who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport. It allows child refugees to join their relatives in other EU countries.
The government has put forward its own amendment, which sets out its intention to negotiate an agreement with the EU on it.
There will also be votes on keeping principles of EU law and environmental protections.
SNP's Stephen Gethins is greeted with groans after returning to the Commons after his party walked out during PMQs.
He has returned with three other colleagues to discuss the EU (Withdrawal) Bill. Other Scots MPs are furious.
Labour's Ian Murray welcomes him back but says 5 PMQs were given to the government because the SNP walked out.
Gethins says Scottish Labour MPs walked out in 1987 because they thought the government wasn't taking it seriously.
SNP MP Pete Wishart says the people of Scotland will find the scenes "appalling and repellent" as the party is being shouted down.
Stephen Gethins says 'we have the most incompetent government in living memory' and they are only let off the hook by how poor Labour's opposition is.
He says the UK is on the 'cusp of becoming a failed state'.
Tory grandee Ken Clarke is up now. A pro-EU rebel, he says it is appalling that the programme motion has left MPs with only a couple of hours to debate these important matters.
He says the more extreme members of his party seem to 'relish the idea of erecting barriers' with the EU but then want an 'exotic free trade agreement' with the rest of the world.
The former chancellor dismisses any criticism that he might be defying the referendum result - as he thinks the referendum did not address any of these issues such as the single market. Nick Timothy, May's former adviser, introduced all these new red lines on the single market and the customs union and the European Court of Justice during the PM's Lancaster House speech, he climbs.
'I don't remember any ordinary member of the public asking me about the customs union and the single market,' he said.
No one is following these debates, he claims, unless there are warnings they might get it wrong.
Only 'hardline, headbanging' Brexiteers hate these things, Clarke says.
The government is taking no chances on losing any votes, by imposing a three-line whip.
Ken Clarke says a 'customs arrangement' doesn't mean anything - as it covers absolutely every scenario. He says May has been forced to use these words because her cabinet will not agree on anything.
He says an important stride was made yesterday with the Irish amendment tabled yesterday, which enshrines the PM's promise to prevent customs checks on the Irish border.
We reported this last night but it was mostly ignored elsewhere amid the drama of the day.
Brexit committee chairman Hilary Benn says he will back both EEA amendments later, rebelling against his frontbench on one.
He says we have wasted too much time 'dreaming' over the past 18 months. It's like Britain has decided to disembark from a boat in the middle of the ocean, and it can either jump in the sea - a hard Brexit - or get into a lifeboat - a softer Brexit.
He says the EEA looks like a lifeboat. He doesn't want Britain to be exactly the same as Norway but it could make its own model, making changes around things like freedom of movement.
Tory rebel leader Dominic Grieve is now up.
He says 'I do despair' of the criticism he gets about Brexit discussions, as the UK is subject to a 'myriad' of international laws and agreements. But he gets complaints saying Brexit must mean the UK leaves everything.
'We've got ourselves so angry, so fixated, that we cannot see the wood for the trees any more', Grieve adds.
He says he will vote against the government whip to back the Lords amendment on EEA membership. He says he can't back the Labour one because it is a 'motherhood and apple pie amendment'.
Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs committee, says she feels uncomfortable about abstaining on the EEA vote but she will listen to the Labour frontbench in the hope that it might help build consensus at the next stage. She says the frontbench must stop kicking the can down the road.
She says she has great sympathy with those who would vote otherwise.
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