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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The Irish Prime Minister has taken the extraordinary step of urging Sinn Fein to end its 100-year-old boycott of Westminster, to thwart a hard Brexit.
The Republican party has always refused to take its seats and vote in Parliament because it will not swear allegiance to the Queen or recognise the legitimacy of Britain’s rule over Northern Ireland.
Also at the NI Affairs Committee, Democratic Unionist MP Ian Paisley Jr reacted angrily over the leaked detail of the EU's Brexit legal paper.
"I'm disgusted by what the EU are saying about my country. I'm appalled," he said.
Mr Paisley said the UK Government was facing its biggest test of resolve in the Brexit negotiations and described the plan for common regulations between Northern Ireland and the Republic as an attempt to annex part of the UK.
He told Ms Bradley: "I would ask the Government to show some teeth to the EU that we will not be rolling over to the demands to annex part of our country."
Philip Hammond has got into hot water by describing how he slept on a beach on in a Cabinet discussion about homelessness.
The Chancellor told ministers he had once been “sleeping on the beach at midnight on Midsummer's Day” but had not been considered to be homeless, sources told The Telegraph.
It comes after a homeless man died a stone's throw from the Palace of Westminster, raising questions about the treatment of rough sleepers.
The EU's draft document has now been published online, our Europe correspondent Jon Stone tweets.
One of the key points is the establishment of a "common regulatory area" between the EU and Northern Ireland - effectively an annex for the province.
The common regulatory area "shall constitute an area without internal borders in which the free movement of goods is ensured and North-South co-operation protected", it says.
The text adds: "The territory of Northern Ireland, excluding the territorial waters of the United Kingdom... shall be considered to be part of the customs territory of the Union.
The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is now speaking at a press conference in Brussels.
He says it is a "very important moment for the negotiation. I'm tempted to say a key moment in this very lengthy and complex process."
Barnier says "nothing should be a surprise" in the document to anyone following the negotiations.
Michel Barnier says the EU "stands by our commitment" to discuss all the different options and to "continue the dialogue with all political leaders of Northern Ireland".
He says he will meet Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, next week.
He says "we need to pick up the pace" to get the negotiations done by the Autumn.
The Good Friday agreement will be protected, the EU says.
Michel Barnier is now talking about the post-Brexit transition deal.
He dismisses the UK's wish to be able to oppose rules, saying they "must be the same for all during that period".
"We cannot risk regulatory divergence," he said.
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