Brexit today - as it happened: May and Corbyn in angry clash amid row over Johnson’s Ireland border comments
All the latest from Westminster as the EU published its Brexit terms, as it happened
Theresa May has rejected an EU proposal for the Northern Ireland border as something “no UK Prime Minister could agree to”, on a day when Brexit tensions threatened to bubble over.
Brussels published an 120-page draft agreement on the EU withdrawal that proposed a “common regulatory area” for Northern Ireland after Brexit, if no other solution could be found – effectively keeping the province in a customs union.
It came as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson caused a major row with an explosive leaked memo where he suggested there could be a “significantly harder” border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.
Former prime minister Sir John Major also made an explosive intervention in the debate, saying MPs should be allowed a free vote on the prospect of a second referendum, while tearing into Ms May’s negotiating strategy.
In the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn also attacked the Government’s Brexit approach in an angry clash at Prime Minister’s Questions.
It came after the Labour leader made a dramatic policy shift in favour of backing a European customs union in a speech earlier this week.
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Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry has written to Boris Johnson demanding answers about his leaked memo on the Northern Irish border.
Victims of sexual assault in Parliament may be discouraged from coming forward due to the threat of legal action, MPs have heard.
Labour's Jess Phillips raised concerns that wealthy men in powerful positions could "frighten" victims with legal letters.
Speaking in the Commons, she said: "The leader of the House said that both parties would be entitled to representation which is absolutely as it should be and fair in every system in the land, whether that's trade union representation or legal representation.
"I do have a concern about how we will make sure in this place that there is an equality of arms in that representation."
The Birmingham Yardley MP added: "If you are a case worker working in one of our offices and somebody sexually harasses you and the person who sexually harasses you is a very wealthy peer, for example, I worry that one person has really good representation and can frighten people with legal letters and I have received some myself in these past few months.
"That worriers me greatly that there will be an unfair imbalance.
"If the Weinstein issue teaches us anything it is that rich men know how to use the law to get away with murder."
The motion has now been approved by Parliament.
The Sun's political editor has obtained a letter from David Davis, where the Brexit Secretary is trying to reassure nervous Tory MPs about the EU's draft text.
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