personal journey to others. we have to rise up in huge numbers. when you have a complicated problem, sometimes solutions are simple. >> to see how that first beach he began cleaning looks today, go to cnnheroes.com. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. and good morning to you. a good saturday morning to you. i'm richard quest outside the houses of parliament in london. and you are most welcome to our special coverage. it's called or being called super saturday. it is a rare weekend session of the british parliament as they try again, one more time, to get what's known as a meaningful vote or a brexit deal approved. the difference this time over all the theresa may votes and the various votes on this, that

and the other, boris johnson secured a last-minute agreement in brussels only days ago. there's a new withdraw act without the hated backstop. there is also a new protocol on northern ireland. there's new rules on trade. it's a feat that no one thought he could pull off. and a few moments ago, those are the pictures you are looking at. boris johnson left his residence at 10 downing street and is now heading for parliament behind me. a short while ago, of course, brussels is not london and the pm will need perhaps all and more of his powers of persuasion to get this through the houses of parliament. there's simply this. the mathematics is not in his favor. theoretically, it is possible he can win today's vote. but there are amendments that could scuffle it and there are

those in his own party that could be obstructionists and fail him at the last moment. nic robertson is with me to discuss and put it perspective. first of all, a glorious day. >> hopefully that's not a frost nipping at the prime minister's feet right now, but yes, this is an you a specialus beginning for boris johnson's big day. >> if we break this down bit by bit, the first thing is the special nature of this saturday. tell me why it had to be today. why couldn't they wait until monday? >> yeah. the first time since 1982 the british parliament has met on a saturday. it had to be today.

>> so he gets the deal during the week and he comes back to london and he has to have this deal signed and sealed or approved by parliament by 11:00 tonight, i think. >> they have been very specific in the act because they didn't want any loophole for the prime minister to wheel his way through. >> so when we look at this, the act or -- what are they considering today? what is being voted upon today? >> well, the prime minister, first of all, will lay down what he thinks should be voted on. he has two possible proposals here. there is the deal and there is no deal. we will also hearing amendments today. oliver ledwin is putting forward

an amendment that has everyone talking. it may turn it on its head today because in essence, it makes today's vote a provisional one. >> we'll get to that amendment and the -- there's three thate know so far. the house is due to sit in about 25 minutes from now. there will be prayers and then it will be order, order. we'll hear that many times, i suspect. but before we get into the nitty-gritty, there have been many monumental moments. is this one of them? >> it is. theresa may had three of these meaningful votes. this is boris johnson's first one. he's been majorly unsuccessful with every vote in parliament so far. theresa may went down historically by 230 votes in the first phase of it, 149 a few

weeks later in march and 40 or 58 again when they voted on it later in march. boris johnson is widely expected to do much better than that. so it is historic. if it passes, this takes fwritan out of the european union. this is a test of him and of the country. >> good to see you. thank you. you'll be with us all day. >> i will. >> you've got the numbers. you've got the amendments. you've got all the details. so thank you very much. so the way the day will go, what we expect to happen, besides me keeping my voice, the parliament will sit in just 25 minutes from now. there will be prayers. the speaker will call the order. we will find out if any other amendments have been accepted over the course of the night.

essentially at the moment, we know there three of them. boris johnson will then open the debate. it's open ended in the sense that it is a special sitting so there is nothing on the other end of it that they must get to. throughout those five hours, we'll be having votes on the visit amendments. we will try to give you the big picture. we will tell you why aspects matter without leaving you too far behind. joining me now, rashsh. you have already tweeted you will not vote. you call this a reckless deal. i think it's important to understand, you're a remainder or you're a leaver? >> well, i'm a remainder, but

i'm one of those 350e78 wpeople wanted the previous prime minister to work cross party in order to secure a deal that would enable us to have frictionless trade and not damage our economic future. and the reality is that the previous prime minister and the current prime minister have succumbed to a hard brexit and the european research group, the hard right of the conservative party and they've been trapped in this -- with these red lines. and that is why this deal, which is even worse than the theresa may deal, because it takes protection for labor standards, environmental protections and other protections out of the deal, the legally binding agreement into the future political declaration which is not legally binding that makes it even harder for labor mps to back. and i hope my colleagues refrain

from supporting it. >> if it doesn't pass tonight or this afternoon, then, of course, the ben act kicks in for the purpose of this question. let's assume the prime minister sends the letter tonight requesting the extension which is granted. what do you want to happen then? >> what is important is that we seek consent from the british people on a negotiated deal. when we had the 2016 referendum, there was no clarity about what kind of brexit people will be getting. and what we want, what i want and many in the country want and there will be hundreds of thousands of people protesting today is a voet on a negotiated deal and the ochgz to remain. if boris johnson is so confident that his transition deal is the right thing for the country, he should be willing to put it back

to the people. >> so if it fails tonight or if we do go into an extension under the ben act, you want a second referendum but a confirmatory vote on which deal, the one that you've voted against? well, look, today will determine whether a deal that boris johnson is proposing to parliament goes through and -- >> but i'm saying -- >> we'll see what happens. if it doesn't go through, i think he should go back and renegotiate a deal that is acceptable to parliament. the problem is our prime ministers have gone in without -- >> this is going to go around in circles. would you prefer a general election? wouldn't a general election sort this out? >> absolutely not. a general election is about issues that affect our country beyond brexit.

we need a specific vote on brexit. then they can look at whether the deal we have at the moment is better than the one that boris johnson negotiates. i believe he hasn't negotiated a good enough deal. >> i'm having difficulty seeing how you get from -- tonight is voted down, and by the way, how are you going to vote on the various amendments, the revoke amendment, for example. are you going the support that amendment? >> we have to see which amendments get selected so i'm afraid i can't tell you that until we are able to see which amendments are selected by the speaker. so you'll have to wait until that happens. >> the one everyone is talking about is the -- i think it's almost inconceivable the speaker won't accept that amendment. if he does, which basically shoves it all down the road, shoves final approval until the various enabling legislation is fully in place, would you

support that? >> my priority and my party's priority is to vote this deal down. that is the focus. there is a case for considering the letwin amendment and we will look at that in scenes as we progress through the day. we are focused on voting this deal down and that's the priority for us. >> thank you. >> michael, one often thinks what is happening here is so crucial and vital, but whether it's beirut at the moment, the u.s., please bring us up to date. >> exactly, yes. you're not the only one. there's lots going on around the world. richard quest, we'll check in with you in a little while. meanwhile, u.s. politics taking a wild turn yet again.

new revelations in the impeachment inquiry against president trump. putting the white house in a tough spot. when we come back, we'll have that and more.

good morning. a good saturday to you and a warm welcome. it's cnn's special brexit coverage and the victoria tower at westminster where only last week we saw her majesty, the queen, with the state opening of parliament. since then, matters have moved fast. britain or the uk parliament hasn't had a saturday session in nearly 40 years. there again, britain has never exited the european union before. so here we are with super saturday. this is boris johnson's deal. it's the deal he finalized a couple of days ago with brussels. the actual act is serve hundred pages long. the protocol on northern ireland

is 30 some pages long. the whole thing is extremely complicated and parliament is expected to vote on it today. key members of parliament are giving it the thumbs down. good morning. happy super saturday to you. >> you don't remember the last time parliament sat. >> it's never sat on a saturday in my lifetime. i do remember, i was at university, i was in college and i wasn't actually doing the business yet, 1982, second year of college. but yes, i remember listen to go margaret thatcher. you've got the numbers. >> soever, it doesn't look necessarily that good for boris johnson, but it's looking better by the minute. there are key groups of mps that we're looking at today. >> how many votes does he need?

>> he needs 320. >> because we've lobbed off the speaker, the deputy speakers, anybody who is -- >> yes, and actually, when we look at the actual numbers, we're looking at 318 because there are four tellers, two of which will vote for the deal and two of which will vote against, they cancel each other out. >> we know the labor party will not vote for this. so where does he get his numbers? how many does he have on his own? >> on his own, i believe he could be at 309. that's a fairley conservative estimate. 19 of whom wrote a letter this month saying they want a deal before the end of the month. it takes into account two labor mps who have come out and said they will vote for this deal. that is in the last 24 hours.

and slowly but surely, some of them are coming to boris johnson's aid here. >> he's not yet there. >> he's not yet there, but i think it's too close to call. >> how many people will be swayed by debate versus made up there mind? i was walking through and i heard one say they were going to listen to the debate and then decide how to vote. i find that hard to believe. >> i find that hard to believe, as well. the labor mps, the ones who want

to remain, who want to stop brexit, but are terrified if they're in brexit areas. >> the principal upon which they're voting is a deal several hundred pages long and they're being asked to roar it through in 24 hours. >> that is certainly what the critics of this deal are saying. they want more time and they want this idea of an extension to continue up until they've gone through the legislation. good to see you. michael, we're going to get technical and it will get technical as the hours go on, but we'll do our best to explain and keep you across it all in today parliamentary knnuances. >> i believe we could have used subtitles with anna there. there were things going on and i

had no idea. >> michael, now, as we move forward during the course of the day, please, jump in and shout long and hard when you feel that we've left you behind. >> yes, all right. >> exactly. >> will do, my friend. we'll check in with you later. richard, anna, thank you. u.s. politics, let's going on. cnn learning the u.s. president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani pushed the state department to grant a visa to a former ukrainian official who promised dirt on the democrats. that's according to diplomate george kent's testimony to congress this week. kent said when that didn't work, giuliani then tried to get the white house to have the decision reverse dollars. the state department apparently stood by its guns. the visa was not granted. but the system does reveal just how far rudy giuliani tried to go to get damaging data on the

president's political opponents. now, admissions like george kent's have put the white house on the defensive. jessica snyder explains what's been going on and what it all means. >> a cascade of current and former administration officials called to capitol hill in the last week, painting a damning picture of a rogue foreign policy run by president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani where select officials say they were pressed by the president and others to pressure ukraine to investigate corruption which democrats argue was purely intended for trump's political gain. thursday, trump's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney further fueling democrats' claims of wrongdoing, admitting in a fiery press conference that the administration held up the nearly $400 million in military aid to ukraine in a push to get the country to cooperate. >> i have news for everybody. get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> mulvaney later trying to walk

back his own words by blaming the media for airing the admission saying once again the media has decided to miscontrue my comments to advance a biassed and political witch-hunt against president trump. there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and any investigation into politics. >> i can never remember the gentleman who -- mckinney, the guy -- is that his name? >> who said that? >> it was george kemp. >> i'm sorry, i don't know who that is. but the four officials who divulged details for hours on end were important players on the policy front. fioni hill served as the top adviser on russia. sources say she recounted on monday how then national security adviser john bolton was concerned about giuliani's

shadow diplomacy, calling out giuliani as a hand grenade, hill telling lawmakers that bolton instructed her to notify the chief lawyer for the national security council about the rogue effort for giuliani and gordon sondland with bolton saying i am not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up. >> it is very clear they were run ago shadow foreign policy. >> sondland showing up thursday prepared for open testimony explaining how he had no choice but to work through rudy giuliani since that's what the president wanted, but sondland insisted he did not understand until much later that mr. giuliani's ideas included the idea to involve ukrainians directly or indirectly in the president's 2020 re-election campaign. george kent testified that he

was directed to lay low after he raised concerns about giuliani's efforts and his dismay that pompeo would not stand up to protect ousted ambassador to ukraine maria vonovich. >> the july 25th telephone call was not some kind of one off. and while rudy jewgiuliani has n at the forefront. he's at the center of a counter intelligence probe where federal officials are looking into

everything jessica snyder, cnn washington. >> quite the week. hard to pick which extraordinary development to begin with, but let's start with perhaps the situation in northern syria. the president again claim whag a great favorite he did the kurds with his deal with erdogan who at the end of the day gets everything he wanted and donald trump getting slammed by some of his bigger supporters. where do you think that's headed? is that criticism we're hearing from mcconnell and others going to continue? is it a fracturing? >> i think it is a fracturing. i think the criticism is going to continue. republicans know because they tend to care about national security interests and want to prevent terrorist groups from emerging again, know that if the kurds are weakened and if they

allow turkey to basically aerial bomb them and detroit the one fighting group that was the most effective fighting group against the islamic state, we're going to see a resurgence and an opening for russia and possibly iran to come into the region which they've been doing, but to be playing a much bigger role and particularly in the case of russia where russia can extend its influence in terms of making some peace between the kurds, the turks, and we're seeing the resurgence of assad. so assad didn't have control over the northeastern part of syria. and it was a democratic project. now the occurreds have been forced to turn to assad and this is going to help him gain more territory and autonomy.

so it is a lose-lose for the republicans and the president. not only did this policy endanger the kurds, but as reports have revealed, it's endangered u.s. troops that were forced to leave and flee. >> when it comes to the impeachment process, that extraordinary side of mick mulvaney admitting to the quid pro quo, something that the administration has been fervently denying for some time, how do you see the advancement on the impeachment when you see things like that? >> the impeachment process, there is a shift. the majority of americans are not only in favor of impeachment, but impeachment and

removing the president. that is going to affect republican lawmakers. if they're looking at 2020, that would tip the balance where the democrats would have control over the senate. so i think all of these republican lawmakers have to take a look at this and it seems to be very ad hoc. they don't have a war room. as a result, they're making more and more gaffes like what happened to mulvaney where he basically admitted to the one thing they were trying to deny what was taking place. so then they have to backtrack on this. although they may be able to confuse some of the public, most

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british prime minister boris johnson and members of parliament are now converging on the house of commons forp a rare saturday session. hasn't been one in nearly 40 years. and to be voted on, another attempt to get the brexit agreement through parliament before the october the 31st deadline. it will be the fourth time three meaningful votes under theresa may on her deal. but the big difference is boris johnson has managed to renegotiate, get rid of the so-called backstop, put together a new deal and there is no clear indication if this incarnation fares any better than theresa may. these are the sort of terms about the northern ireland

protocol. the speaker is getting ready to call order. when he does so, what you will see is boris johnson who will open the debate. but in the last few moments, there has been a wrinkle. >> before i call the prime minister to make a statement, i want to make a few brief introductory remarks. first, colleagues across the house want to join me in thanking all of the staff of the house who have worked so hard to facilitate the sitting today. i know many of them had to make special arrangements to be here as have many honorable and right honorable members.

secondly, i would remind members about the need to be mindful of the impact of what they say not only on other honorable and right honorable members but upon others who follow our proceedings. thirdly, i can inform the house that i have selected amendment a in the name of sir oliver elquin to motion one and others and the manuscript amendment in the name of peter carl and others to motion two. fourth, this may be for the convenience of the house, the second motion is debatable, i think it will be convenient for the two motions to be debated together so that reference to the second motion may be made in the debate and if the second motion is moved, you would put the question or questions upon that motion without second debate. order, statement. the prime minister. >> mr. speaker, i want to begin by echoing what you've just

said. my gratitude to all members of the house for assembling on a saturday for the first time in 37 years and indeed to all members of house common staff who have worked to make this sitting possible. and i know it meant people giving up their saturdays, breaking into their weekends at a time when families want to be together and, of course, it means mitting at least the end of england's world cup quarterfinal. i apologize to the house for that. i know the honorable member of cardiff west has postponed his 60th birthday party if nos his 60th birthday to be here. mr. speaker, the house has gone to a great deal of trouble to assemble here on a saturday for the first time in a generation and i do hope that in semestereling for the purposes of a meaningful vote that we will, indeed, be allowed to have

a meaningful vote. with permission, mr. speaker, i shall make a statement on the new agreement with our european friends. will house will need no reminding this is the second deal and the fourth vote, 3 1/2 years after the nation voted for brexit. during those years, friendships have been strained, families divided and the attention of this house consumed by a single issue that has at times felt incapable of resolution. but i hope, mr. speaker, that this is the moment when we can finally achieve that resolution and reconcile the instincts that compete within us. many times in the last 30 years, i've heard people remark this country is half hearted in its eu membership. and it is true that we in the uk

have often been a back marker opting out of the single currency, not taking part in shangan, very often trying to block some collective ambition in the in the last 3 1/2 years, it has been striking that members on all sooipdz sides id house have debated brexit on the balance of economic risk and vac. and i don't think i can recall a time when i've heard a single member stand up and call for britain to pay her part in the construction of a federal europe. i don't think i've heard a single member call for deeper integration or a federal destiny more -- perhaps i've missed it, but i don't think i've heard many of it, mr. speaker. and there is a whole side of

that. there is a whole side of that debate that you hear regularly in other european capitals that is simply absent from our national conversation. and i don't think that has changed much in the last 30 years. but if we have been skeptical and if we have been anxious about the remoteness of the bureaucracy, if we have been dubious about the rhetoric of union and incident investigation, if we have been half hearted europeans, then it follows logically that with part of our hearts, with half our hearts, we feel something else. a sense of love and respect for european culture and civilization of which we are a part. a desire to development with our friends and partners in everything, creatively, artistically, intellectually, a

sense of our shared destiny. and a deep understanding of the eternal need, especially after the horrors of the last century, for britain to stand with peace and democracy in our continent. and it is our continent. and it's precisely because we are both capable of feeling both things at once, skeptical about the modes of eu integration as we are, but passionate and enthusiastic about europe, but the whole experience of the last 3 1/2 years has been so difficult for this country and so divisive. and that is why it is now so urgent for us to move on and to build a new relationship with our friends in the eu on the basis of a new deal, a deal that

can unite the warring instincts in us all. and now is the time for this great house of commons to come together and bring the country together today. as i believe database as i believe people at home are hoping and expecting. with a new way forward and a new and better deal, both for britain and for our friends in the eu. and that is the advantage of the agreement that we have struck with our friends in the last two days. because this deal allows the uk, whole and entire, to leave the eu on october the 31st in accordance with the referendum while simultaneously looking forward to a new partnership based on the closest ties of friendship and dwopgz.

and i pay tribute to our european friends of escaping the prisons of existing positions and being flexible by reopening the withdraw agreement and there by addressing the deeply felt concerns of many in this house. one of my most important jobs is to express those concerns to our european friends. and i shall continue to listen to all honorable members throughout the debate today, to meet with anyone on any side and to welcome the scrutiny the house will bring to bear if, as i hope, we proceed to consider the withdraw bill next week. today, this house has a historic opportunities to share the same breath of vision as our european neighbors, the ability to resolve to reach beyond past

disagreements by getting brexit done and moving this country forward as we all yearn to do. this agreement provides for a real brexit, take control of our borders, law, farming, fisheries and trade, amounting to the greatest national sovereignty in historic. it removes the back stop in the customs market. for the first time in almost five decades, the uk will be stri able to strike deals with countries across the world, article 4 of the protocol states northern ireland is part of the customs territory of the united kingdom. it adds, nothing in this

protocol shall prevent northern ireland from any free trade deals on the same terms as goods produced in the united kingdom. our negotiations are focused on the uniquely sensitive nature of the border between northern ireland and the remember. and we have respected those sensitivities. above all, we and our european friends are have preserved the letter of the belfast agreement and upheld the uk agreement including the travel area. in order to prevent a regulatory border on the island of ireland, we propose a regulatory zone eliminating any need for associated checks of the border. but mr. speaker, in this agreement we have been gone further by also finding a solution to the vexed question

of customs which many in this house have raised. our agreement includes unveted access, access from goods modern from northern ireland to the rest of the market, it ensures there should be no tariff on goods circulating between great britain and northern ireland unless they are at risk of entering the eu. it ensures an open border, an open border on the island of ireland, a common objective of everyone in this house. and it ensures for those living and working alongside the border there will be no visible or practical changes to their lives. they can carry on as before. i believe this is a good arrangement reconciling the special circumstances in northern ireland with the minimum possible bureaucratic

consequences in northern ireland and it is precisely to ensure that those arrangements are acceptable to the people of northern ireland that we have made consecretary a fundamental element of this new deal. so no arrangements can be imposed on northern ireland if they do not work for northern ireland. the people of northern ireland will have the right under this agreement to express or withhold their consent to these provisions by means of a majority vote in their assembly four years after the end of the transition. and if the assembly chooses to withhold consent, these provisions shall cease to apply after two years, during which the joint committee of the uk and eu would propose a new way forward in concert with northern ireland's institutions. and as soon as this house allows the process of extracting

ourselves from the eu to be completed, the exciting enter surprise of building a new relationship with our friends can begin. which has been too long delayed and which they would delay any further. mr. speaker, i do not wish to project to be the project of any one government or any one party, but rather the endeavor of the united kingdom as a whole. only this parliament can make this at the new work. and i acknowledge that in the past we have not always acted perhaps in that spirit. so as we take forward, as we take forward our friendship with our closest neighbors and construct that new relationship, i will ensure that a broad and open process draws upon the

expertise of every party and every member who wishes to contribute will be invited to do so and we shall start by debating the mandate for our negotiators in the next phase. mr. speaker, the ambition for our future friendship, i have complete faith in this house to choose regulations in our best tradition of the highest standard, our tradition of the highest standards of environmental protections and workers' rights. no one anywhere in this chamber believes in lowering standards.

instead -- >> there's a lot of gesticulation. the statement by the prime minister must be heard and it will be. prime minister. >> mr. speaker, i'm grateful. no one believes in lowering standards. instead, we believe in improving them as indeed we will be able to do. and seizing the opportunities of our new freedoms, for example, free from the common agricultural policy, we will have a far simpler system where we will reward farmers for improving our environment and animal welfare, many of whose provisions are impossible under the current arrangements instead of just paying them for their acreage and free from the common fisherys policy, we can ensure sustainable yields based on the latest science, not outdating methods of setting quotas. and these restored powers will

be the able to not simply to this government, but any future party of this government to use as they see fit. that is what restoring sovereignty means. that is what is meant in practice by taking back control of our destiny. and our first decision is that in any future trade negotiations with any country, our national health service will not be on the table. mr. speaker, i am convinced that an overwhelming majority in this house, regardless of our personal views, wishes to see brexit delivered in accordance with a referendum. a josht. and in this crucial mission been

there could no longer be a delay. i must tell the house that with this new deal, the scope for future negotiation, for fruitful negotiation has run its course. they said -- they said we couldn't reopen the withdraw agreement, mr. speaker. they said we couldn't reopen the withdraw agreement. they said we couldn't change the withdraw agreement. they said we couldn't abolish the backstop, mr. speaker. we've done both. but it is now my judgment that we have reached the best possible solution. so those who agree, like me, that brexit must be delivered and who, like me, prefer to avoid a no deal outcome, must

abandon t abandon the dillusion that this can be debated again by one extra day. they have had three 1/2 years of this debate. it has distracted them from their own projects and their own ambitions. and if there is one feeling that unites the british public with a growing number of officials in the eu, it is a burning desire to get brexit done. and i must -- and i must tell the house again in all candor, whatever letters they may seek to force the government to write, it cannot change my judgment that further delay is pointless, expensive and deeply

corrosive of public trust. people simply will not understand how politicians can say with one breath that they want delay to avoid no deal and then with the next breath that they still want delay when a great deal is there to be done. now is the time, mr. speaker, to get this thing done. and i say to all members, let us come together to end, let us come together as democrats to end this debilitating feud. let us come together as democrats to get behind this deal, the one proposition that fulfills the verdict of the majority, but which also allows us to bring together the two halves of our hearts, to bring together the two halves of our nation. let's speak now, both for the 52 and for the 48. let's go for a deal that can heal this country. let's go for a deal that can

heal this country and can allow us all to express our legitimate desires for the deepest possible friendship and partnership with our neighbors, a deal that allows us to create a shared destiny with them and a deal that also allows us to express our confidence in our own democratic institutions to make our own laws, to determine our own future, to believe in ourselves once again as an open, generous, global, outward looking free trading united kingdom. that is the prospect. that is the prospect that this deal offers our country. it is a great prospect and a great deal and i commend it to the house. >> the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i join you in thanking all the staff that have come into the

house this morning to help us, cleaning staff, catering staff, security staff officials and our own staff. they've been given up a weekend to help our deliberations. i want to thank the prime minister for an advanced copy of his statement. he has renegotiated the withdraw agreement and made it even worse. he's renegotiated the political declaration and made that even worse. we're having a debate today on a text for which there is no economic impact assessment and no accompanying legal advice. this government has sought to avoid scrutiny throughout the process and yesterday evening made empty promises on workers' rights and the environment. the same government that spent the last few weeks negotiating in secret to remove from the withdraw agreement legally binding commitments on workers' rights and the environment. this government cannot be

trusted and these benches will not be douched. neither will the government's -- neither, mr. speaker, will the government's own workers, the head of the civil service union prospect, yesterday, met the right honorable member for sari eating and t conclusion of that meeting he said, and i quote, i asked for reassurances that the government would not die verge on workers' rights after brexit. he could not give me those assurances. and as for the much hyped world leading environment bill, the legally binding targets will not be enforceable until 2037. for this government, the climate emergency can always wait. mr. speaker, this deal risks people's jobs, rights at work, our environment and our national health service. we must be honest about what this deal means for our

manufacturing industry and people's jobs. not only does it reduce access to the market of our biggest trading partner, it leaves us without a customs union which will damage industries all across this country in every one of our constituencies. from nissan in sunderland, heinz in wiggan, and yag war in birmingham, thousands of british jobs depend on a strong manufacturing sector and a strong manufacturing sector needs markets through fluid supply chains all across the european union. a vote for this deal would be a vote to cut manufacturing jobs all across this country. this deal, mr. speaker, would inevitably lead to a trump trade

deal. forcing the uk to die verge from the highest standards and expose our families, once again, to chlorine washed chicken and hormone treated beef. this deal -- >> order. i did say that the statement by the prime minister must be heard. the response of the leader of the opposition and the best traditions of parliamentary democracy must also be heard, and it will. jeremy corbyn. >> this deal failsel to enshrine the principal that we keep pace with the european union on putting at risk our current rules from air pollution standards to chemical safety. we all know the public concern about these issues. all at the same time that we're facing a climate emergency. and as to workers' rights we simply cannot give the

government a blank check. mr. speaker, you don't have to take my word for all of this, listen to the tuc general sector who says this -- she does -- she does represent an organization -- she did represent an organization that has 6 million members affiliated to it. this deal, mr. speaker, would be a disaster for working people. it would hammer the economy, cost jobs and sell workers' rights down the river. listen to make uk representing british manufacturers say, and i quote, this is make uk's comments on this deals, members, might care to listen to them, relationships to the closest relationships in goods have gone. under this deal,