Brexit: May faces Tory call to resign as she addresses MPs about delay until October – live news

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3m ago15:04
May refuses to rule out applying for a further article 50 extension
Martin Vickers, a Conservative, asks for an assurance that May will never seek a further article 50 extension.
May thanks Vickers for supporting the deal, but she ignores his question.

• May refuses to rule out applying for a further article 50 extension.

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5m ago15:02
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.
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10m ago14:57
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.
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12m ago14:55
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.
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16m ago14:51
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.
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22m ago14:45
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.
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24m ago14:43
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.
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25m ago09:42
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.
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26m ago14:41
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.
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28m ago14:39
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.
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29m ago14:38
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.
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31m ago14:36
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.
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33m ago14:34
Labour’s Peter Kyle says MPs seem increasingly fearful of the electorate. Isn’t it time for MPs to investigate how they can use pubic 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.
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35m ago14:32
May says she thinks a second referendum would increase division just at the time when the government needs to bring people together.
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37m ago14:30
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.
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38m ago14:29
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.
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40m ago14:27
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP, says wasting the new extension on a Tory leadership contest would be “an unforgivable act of self-indulgence”.
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42m ago14:25
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.
May says she wants MPs to approve a good deal.
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43m ago14:24
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.
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44m ago14:23
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.

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Theresa May tells MPs to use Easter recess to consider their 'national duty' to resolve Brexit crisis – as it happened

Andrew Sparrow
Sometimes the most significant event is the one that does not happen. Two weeks ago, on 29 March, when the UK was supposed to be leaving the EU but article 50 had been extended for two weeks, there were large protests in Parliament Square involving thousands of people furious that their Brexit was not happening. Last night Theresa May accepted another extension, not for two weeks but for almost seven months. And yet in the Commons the Brexiter response was close to subdued.
True, Sir Bill Cash, the veteran Tory Brexiter, asked May if she would resign, and a few other Brexit hardliners criticised her in strong terms. But there was a lot less bile and rage than we have from them in some previous exchanges, many of the most senior Brexiters were not present or did not speak, and overall May sounded a bit more resilient than she has done of late. It probably had a lot to do with the fact that many MPs are feeling knackered. But the absence of a mighty backlash may also reflect an awareness amongst Brexiters that, although they would love to get rid of the prime minister, at present they don’t have the leverage to do so.
Here are the main points from the exchanges.

• May urged MPs to use the Easter recess to consider their “national duty” and reflect on how they might find a solution to the Brexit impasse. She also claimed it was still possible to pass the withdrawal agreement in time to prevent the UK having to take part in European elections. In her opening statement she said:

So let us use the opportunity of the recess to reflect on the decisions that will have to be made swiftly on our return after Easter. And let us then resolve to find a way through this impasse.
So that we can leave the European Union with a deal as soon as possible.
So that we can avoid having to hold those European parliamentary elections.
And above all, so that we can fulfil the democratic decision of the referendum, deliver Brexit and move our country forward.
This is our national duty as elected members of this House – and nothing today is more pressing or more vital.

• May brushed aside a call from Sir Bill Cash, the Tory Brexiter, to resign. Cash asked May:

Does the prime minister appreciate the anger that her abject surrender last night has generated across the country, having broken promises 100 times not to extend the time? ... Will she resign?

May said Cash knew the answer to that. She also brushed aside a complaint from Peter Bone, another Tory Brexiter, who asked her whether she still stood by what she told him at PMQs three weeks ago about how she would not consider delaying Brexit beyond 30 June while she was still PM. (See 2.24pm.)

• She refused to rule out applying for a further article 50 extension in the autumn. (See 3.04pm.)
• She claimed there was more agreement between Labour and the Conservatives on the customs union than people realised. She said:

I think there is actually more agreement in relation to a customs union than is often given credit for when different language is used.
We’ve been very clear that we want to obtain the benefits of a customs union - no tariffs, no rules of origin checks and no quotas - while being able to operate our own independent trade policy.
The Labour party has said they want a say in trade policy - the question is how we ensure we can provide for this country to be in charge of its trade policy in the future.

• She risked angering the DUP by refusing to rule out extending this session of parliament until the autumn. The issue was raised by Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader at Westminster, who told May:

The current session of parliament is due to end sometime soon. There is some talk around of extending this session beyond two years. Can I say, I think many in this house, including on this bench, would regard that as something that is not acceptable?

May refused to give Dodds the assurance he wanted, although when Labour’s Chris Bryant raised the same issue, she said her focus was on getting her deal through parliament. Even though the DUP are the Tories’ confidence and supply partners, May also responded robustly when the DUP MP Sammy Wilson accused her of always giving in to the EU. (See 2.43pm.)

Jack Maidment(@jrmaidment)
Sure fire sign that the end is nigh: Theresa May goes to war with the DUP's Sammy Wilson.
You can actually see that Mr Wilson is taken aback by the PM's angry tone. pic.twitter.com/26JguxjhAn
April 11, 2019

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