we look at it, so i think we can discern from that this will be a fairly hefty defeat for dr sarah wollaston'sis instance but let's not pre—empt the vote. that is where we are. as we look at the chamber itself, i think there are a couple of tellers in place in front of the dispatch box, u nless place in front of the dispatch box, unless they are just loitering with intent. but that is where we will have the four tellers eventually who will line up to present the vote that the speaker. as we wait for this to happen, and i must say, it is taking rather longer than i thought it might, so let's join vicki young and see if she can shed any light. i don't know why it is taking longer given so many were abstaining. as you saw from the pictures, hundreds of labour mps did not go anywhere. it is a bit unusual it is taking so long but there have been some delays in the last couple of days, i think with people wanting to make sure everything is com pletely to make sure everything is completely accurate. this has been interesting in a sense if you look at the labour party because as we know, a lot of cont

sarah wollaston left the conservatives to join the group and she told the speaker she heard labour was on the health committee. she has served with great distinction as a member of the health and social care select committee, and as a spokesperson, nationally recognised for her work on mental health, i am deeply concerned to hear that the labour party had been seeking names to replace her and oust her from her position on the select committee. surely, this is unacceptable and sends entirely the wrong message about how we value maternity leave in this place, and i'm very relieved that none of her colleagues, her former colleagues, were prepared to be nominated in that way. but could i seek your guidance on this point, but also on the wider point that, surely, select committees are at their best when members are able to leave their narrow party politics at the door, rather than be a tool of the whips offices. the speaker, john bercow, sent out the process for changing membership at a select committee and said he was not aware of any plans to remove ms berger, but added he wouldn't necess

last week, there was an amendment by sarah wollaston, now one of the tiggers, which called, clearly,hip told mps to abstain. now, even that provoked a walk out of five labour front benchers who then voted against the amendment. remember, a large number of labour mps don't want another referendum. even if we get to the point there is a clear vote on whether there should be a referendum or not and labour goes all in, i think there's a good chance a sizeable chunk of labour mps are not going to vote for it. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight are the entertainmentjournalist & broadcaster caroline frost, and parliamentary journalist tony grew. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's damian johnson. good evening. brighton are through to the fa cup semifinals for the first time in 33 years — but only after surviving a scare at millwall. it was the championship side who led — alex pearce with the header. and they appeared in control wh

sarah wollaston is an mp in the independent group, formerly conservative, voted against the deal.lse binary, between having a deal and having no deal, when in fa ct deal and having no deal, when in fact there are other options, so we would like to see that ended tomorrow, to make it absolutely clear that under no circumstances will the house of commons accept the government taking us out with no deal at all, and should also be considering the other ways that can be done, my preference would be to put a deal to the british people, give them the right to vote, the other option, as a last resort, if we we re other option, as a last resort, if we were about to crash out, would be to revoke it altogether. labour has not yet put forward the amendment for the people's referendum, and... hugely disappointing, we know what happened when the group form, the labour front bench panic and said, we will accept a people's vote to try to stop other labour mps joining us try to stop other labour mps joining us and of course, they have backtracked from that. that is hugely disappointing. there is a

one of them is the member of the independent group, sarah wollaston, whojoins me now.is campaign for another referendum and they have said to mps not to vote for it tonight. that is extraordinary, because all the time, they are being told by the labour front now is not the time, it is like marquetry, and we have ten working days before before off the cliff and if now is not the time then goodness me, when the time? we can see there will be a government motion calling for a delay of some kind and promising two weeks when mps can have their say in the indicative votes on the way through all of this, there might be an amendment going through along those lines. what do you see happening in that scenario? is that when you think you might get what you want? ultimately, i hope so. i don't expect our amendments will pass the night but i will be supporting the hilary benn i meant meant for these indicative votes, thenl meant for these indicative votes, then i very much hope that when this comes back the labour party will finally be in a position to fulfil their promise, but i d

let's talk about the amendment put forward by sarah wollaston on the people vote, the second referendumn it's dead? no way! the labour party has put forward its alternative deal and it has been defeated pretty heavily. the prime minister as you have been reporting has been defeated heavily twice on her deal so we are not going to be making the argument and every possible opportunity putting forward amendments so that this can be put forward to the people so they can resolve this mess. you have got the leadership of the two main parties conniving to stop people from having their say on the form of brexit that we follow. until one of those leadership votes for their thing, it can't happen. some would say it wasn't politically astute because alastair campbell, among others, who support a people's vote, said this was not the time. on the other hand you just have shown up the other hand you just have shown up the labour party who didn't vote for it at all. the labour party needs to abide by the spirit of its conference motion which was, having exhausted the possibility of having a general el

let's speak now to sarah wollaston, the former conservative mp who's joined the new independent grouper daughter on saturday to ask her to put it to them, put it back to the people. that's how she'll get her deal through parliament not by appealing to the right. she says what she's doing is representing what she's doing is representing what the country wants, the country voted for us to leave the eu and one of the key parts of that is ending freedom of movement and her deal delivers that. it's over 1000 days since she asked and neither country see brexit reality and now is the time for her to get her deal through by putting it back to the people and asking if that is what they meant by brexit or would you rather stick with the current deal. i think that's a very reasonable thing to do, she would definitely get it through parliament if she linked it to that putting it to the people, but instead we see her constantly pandering to the right wing of the conservative party. 1a members are invited out to chequers, no women. this is a project of the right and it's time she put it to the peop

sarah wollaston, one of the independent group, said today to nick boles that this is the worst optionbecause it doesn't deliver true brexit for the brexiteers and it is worse than the deal we have currently for the remainers. i would say it is truly a brexit because you have turn out of the eu, you have honoured and respected the result of a referendum, but you are protecting thejobs of referendum, but you are protecting the jobs of the people and the livelihoods of the people that we we re livelihoods of the people that we were elected to represent. i would actually say it is the best of both worlds. the problem is we have people on each side of this debate, those campaigning for a people's vote, they have a strongly held view there, then you have the people who wa nt there, then you have the people who want hey hard brexit, in the middle i think there is a silent majority, both out in the country and in parliament, that want to respect the result of the referendum but they also want to protectjobs and the economy. common market 2.0 takes both of those boxes. as a complete anorak for

sarah wollaston, you are a member of the independent group.tty clear. if the prime minister wants to check that, she could do so, and she could get her deal through the commons, if she agreed just to confirm that it does have the consent of the people, and that is what we are talking about here. a simple choice for people, is this what you meant by brexit or would you weretherapy stick with the deal we have? it is a thousand days since people were asked that. reasonable to check it has consent before we ta ke to check it has consent before we take such a drastic step. if we don‘t get to that step, that also has no chance of getting through, aren‘t we living in a fantasy land where you think it is suddenly going to change? i don't think that is fairto to change? i don't think that is fair to characterise it in that way, basically the labour party whipped theirmps not basically the labour party whipped their mps not show what they wanted to do on this, sol their mps not show what they wanted to do on this, so i think we... votes against were hug