shouting louder. don't imagine if we vote this down a different deal is good to miraculously appear. the alternative is uncertainty and risk. the risk that brexit could be stopped, the risk we could crash out with no deal, the only certainty would be uncertainty. bad for our economy and bad for our standing in the world. that is not national interest. the alternative is for this house to lead our country forward into a brighter future. i don't say this deal is perfect, it was never going to be. that is the nature of a negotiation. yes, it is a compromise, it speaks to the hopes and desires of our fellow citizens who voted to leave and who voted to stay in. we were not bring our country together if we seek a relationship that gives everything to one side of the argument and nothing to the other. we should not let the search for the perfect brexit prevent a good brexit that delivers for the british people. we

should not contemplate that fails to respect the result of the referendum. it would decimate the trust of millions of people in our politics for a generation. to all sides of the debate, to every member in every party, i say this deal deserves your support for what it achieves for all of our people and out achieves for all of our people and our whole united kingdom. achieves for all of our people and ourwhole united kingdom. one union of four nations now and in the future. this is a debate about our future, it isn't about whether we could've ta ken a future, it isn't about whether we could've taken a different road in the past but which road we should ta ke the past but which road we should take from here. if you put aside our differences and remember what unites us, if we brokerand differences and remember what unites us, if we broker and honourable compromise in the interest not of ourselves but of those we were sent here to serve, if we can together and do our duty to our constituents, we will pass the test that history has set for us today. it isn't easy when the passions run so deep but

looking around this chamber i know we can meet this moment. i promise you today, this is the very best deal for the british people, i ask you to back it in the best interest of our constituents and our country. with my whole heart i commend this motion to the house. order. the question is motion number four, as on the order paper. i called the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn. you are watching bbc news live in the house of commons. the prime minister has been on herfeet the house of commons. the prime minister has been on her feet over an hour setting out the defence of her deal, appealing to mps to vote for it. saying that that is a risk brexit could be stopped if mps don't support it, let's listen tojeremy corbyn‘s response. support it, let's listen tojeremy corbyn's response. taken together with the withdrawal agreement and

the future partnership they present a huge and damaging failure for britain. the prime minister says this is a good deal and it is so confident that she attempted to refuse to publish the governments's legal advice. she was forced up publish it today. that forced to. the assessments which we will see indicate this is actually a bad deal. these documents of the product of two years of botched negotiations in which the government spent more time arguing with itself than it did in negotiating with the eu. it isn't only on brexit where they failed, the economy is weak, investment is paula, wage growth is weak on our public services... our public services are in crisis and local councils are collapsing because of this governments's refusal to find

them properly. more people in this country are living in poverty including half a million more children since 2010. the government should be ashamed of themselves for that. poverty is rising, homelessness is rising, household debt is rising as well. mr speaker, it is against this backdrop that this government has produces botched deal that even bleaches the prime minister's own bread lines. across this house, it has achieved something, it has brought together conservative levers and members of every other opposition party in a coalition against the deal. mr speaker... mr speaker...

mr speaker, it could have been so different. it could've been so different. it could've been so different following the 2017 election. the prime minister... order, order, calm yourselves. some of these antics are rather undesirable and deprecating. they may have a role on the playing fields at some public school, i don't know, but they have no role in this chamber. via unseemly and inappropriate. it could've been so different. i am going to say it once but i'll say it is many times as necessary, . . . but i'll say it is many times as necessary, . .. you but i'll say it is many times as necessary, . . . you are but i'll say it is many times as necessary,... you are watching the opening of the house of commons debate on the eu with the role bill. they will be more coverage on beyond 100 days on world news injust a

they will be more coverage on beyond 100 days on world news in just a few minutes' time. we're going to be staying with the commons to watch this debate live. jeremy corbyn is responding to theresa may's free to support her deal. the prime minister has seen these negotiations only as an exercise in the internal management of the conservative party. that did not work out very well at all. when the two previous brexit secretaries who theoretically at least, led the negotiations, say they cannot support the deal, how can she expect anyone else in this house or in this country to have faith in a deal that's been rejected by two of the

people that were involved in a negotiation of its? vista speaker, no deal is a real option. —— mr speaker. no deal is not a real option. the government knows that. it isn't seriously prepared for it. 11 out of the 12 critical infrastructure projects that would need to be in place by the end of march 2019th, to manage and no—deal brexit are at risk of not being completed on time according to the national audit office.|j completed on time according to the national audit office. i am grateful to the honourable gentleman to have courage to give way to somebody on this site. why doesn't he have the

courage to debate the prime minister oi'i courage to debate the prime minister on television on sunday? lam quite on television on sunday? i am quite happy to debate the prime minister. i notice she wasn't keen to debate with anybody during the general election but we understand that. mr speaker, the government has been forced to publish its full legal advice voted on —— for by this house. i hope and assume that evidence will be published tomorrow. members or to be in possession of all the facts. in 2007, the prime minister then argued that the full legal advice should have been made available before the iraq war, i agreed with her friend. available before the iraq war, i agreed with herfriend. why did available before the iraq war, i agreed with her friend. why did she pushes right to the wire here and lose to vote in the house in order to try to prevent the legal advice being published that so necessary to inform us in our debates? this withdrawal agreement is a leap in

the dark. it takes is no closer to understanding what the future of our country post brexit would look like. neither does the future partnership which i will come onto. the prime minister states that the transitional period ends in december 2020. article 132 says it can be extended for up to two years to the 3ist extended for up to two years to the 31st of december 2021. —— 2022. iam 31st of december 2021. —— 2022. i am grateful to my honourable friend forgiving way. he makes a good point that brexit is pointing —— painted as divided our nation but it has united our party in opposition to the prime minister's proposals. it has united many people oi'i proposals. it has united many people on that site. two former brexit secretaries, the former foreign

secretary and two former higher education ministers. i wanted at the prime minister who the new higher education minister is. she didn't ta ke education minister is. she didn't take my intervention. perhaps batting for that sector is incompatible with her brexit. come a very gently say to the house that intervention should be brief, not mini speeches. the leader of the opposition. i thank my friend for the intervention. the labour party discussed the issue at conference, agreed we would oppose the deal and said that if the government cannot govern, it cannot command a majority of the house, then the great tradition is that those governments resign and you have a general election. i