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Your support makes all the difference.A cross-party bid to block a no-deal Brexit has cleared the Commons after Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn met for last-ditch talks to break the deadlock.
In a series of late-night votes, MPs backed the bill, tabled by Labour's Yvette Cooper, which was rushed through in a single day to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal next Friday.
It comes after Ms May was hit by two ministerial resignations over her decision to hold talks with Mr Corbyn, which also sparked fury among Tory MPs.
Mr Corbyn said the meeting in the prime minister's Commons office was "useful but inconclusive", adding: "There has not been as much change as I expected".
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MPs are now voting on second reading of Yvette Cooper's no-deal bill. They are rushing through second and third reading tonight.
During the debate, Cooper said her two-clause Bill "requires the PM to put the motion to parliament proposing an extension to Article 50, it asks the PM to define in the motion the length of the extension".
She went on: "Parliament can debate the motion, can seek to amend it in the normal way and the conclusion is binding on the government.
"The PM has to take that to the EU. If the EU Council agrees and that is resolved, if the EU Council proposes a different date, the Bill proposes for the PM to come back to the House with a new motion."
Ms Coopers said it was a "parliamentary safeguard" on Ms May's efforts to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn has made some gloomier comments about his meeting with Theresa May this afternoon.
He told journalists: “There hasn’t been as much change as I expected but we will have further discussions tomorrow to explore technical issues.
“I put forward the view from the Labour Party that we want to achieve a customs union with the EU, access to the Single Market and dynamic regulatory alignment, that is a guarantee of European regulations as a minimum on the environment, consumer and workers’ rights.
"I also raised the option of a public vote to prevent crashing out or leaving on a bad deal.”
Yvette Cooper's bill passes its second reading with a majority of 5 votes - 315 in favour, 310 against.
Here's the moment it passed its first Commons stage:
It now moves onto the next stage, where MPs will consider amendments to the bill.
Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois said members of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs were told by Sir Graham Brady that the executive committee had decided not to hold "indicative votes" over the Prime Minister.
He told reporters after the meeting: "We were told by the chairman of the '22 committee that they had discussed, I think for some time he said, whether or not they should organise some kind of informal indicative votes.
"But the executive for the full '22 met and discussed this earlier, I think in his words 'for some time', and he said they had decided not to organise any indicative votes in his words 'at this time'."
Geoffrey Cox, the attorney general, has insisted that the UK joining a customs union with the EU would not amount to a "permanent straitjacket".
In a move likely to fuel speculation that the government could agree to Labour's demands for a customs union as part of a cross-party compromise on Brexit, Mr Cox suggested he would be willing to accept such an arrangement if it ensures that Britain leaves the EU.
He told the BBC:
"To me, because I am completely convinced that we must leave and I have been now for a considerable time, leaving is the priority. Other matters, important though they are, are of a lesser significance to the duty we have and the imperative we must fulfil of leaving the European Union."
On the possibility of a customs union, he said:
"It is perfectly reasonable that in the future - whether we sign a customs union or whether we don't - no nation is obliged to remain in an arrangement that doesn't suit it.
"If we decided, in some considerable years' time that we wanted to review our membership of any such customs union if we signed it - and I'm not saying we will - that's a matter for negotiation and discussion.
"There's nothing to stop us removing ourselves from that arrangement, so we can't look at these things as permanent straitjackets upon this country."
Nicola Sturgeon has said she is "concerned" that Jeremy Corbyn could abandon his support for a fresh Brexit referendum, saying there is "a division at the senior levels of Labour" on the issue.
She told a briefing of Westminster journalists:
"I hope it is a commitment they stick to. I think if there is any sense that Labour have sold out cheaply with a confirmatory vote and don't protect Scotland's interests then I think they'll pay a heavy price in Scotland."
She added:
"I find it hard to read where Labour will land on the second referendum - I wouldn't be overly optimistic about it but I do think they'll pay a heavy price if they do a tawdry second best deal with the Tories, become the handmaidens of a Tory Brexit and don't give people the opportunity to decide whether that's what they really want any more.
"I hope that Jeremy Corbyn will not sell out too cheaply but I cannot be sure about it."
Here's the clip:
A row is brewing in the Labour Party after 11 MPs, including four frontbenchers, wrote to Jeremy Corbyn to demand that he make a fresh Brexit referendum a condition of any cross-party deal he agrees with Theresa May.
In her letter to Jeremy Corbyn, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry pushed for a second referendum ahead of an emergency shadow cabinet meeting which she was unable to attend.
"If we look like reaching any other decision than confirmatory vote that would be in breach of the decision made unanimously by conference in Liverpool and overwhelmingly supported by our members and it needs to be put to a vote by the shadow cabinet," the letter said.
She added that if there was a vote "can I - in writing - confirm that my votes are that yes, any deal agreed by Parliament must be subject to a confirmatory public vote, and yes, the other option on the ballot must be remain".
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