Brexit: Tusk fails to back Juncker as he refuses to rule out granting further extension - live news
Follow the day's Brexit events as they happen
- Juncker: UK will leave EU on 31 October if MPs back Brexit deal
- What Juncker said about EU not allowing another Brexit extension
- Explainer: Can Johnson pass deal through Commons?
- PM risks having plan amended on Saturday after losing procedural vote
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My colleagues, Jennifer Rankin and Rowena Mason, have just published this comprehensive look at how the deal was struck and what could happen next:
Related: Boris Johnson gets his deal and a slap on the back in Brussels
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The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has labelled the Brexit agreement Johnson's "sell-out deal":
The more people examine text of Johnson deal, the more you realise what a sell out deal it is. It's not just the DUP, he's sold out virtually every sector of our economy & all those who may have voted to leave believing a deal could be secured that protected their jobs. #Sellout
Now I have read the deal set out by the Prime Minister, I can confirm there is no way that I can support it. It's worse than May's deal, cuts our environment, workers and civic rights, puts responsibility for a border into the hands of the NI Assembly which hasn't met for 3 years
Johnson's deal will be a disaster for working people - it will shrink the economy, make trade more expensive and hit the poorest in the UK the hardest.
I will vote against this botched deal but I call on the Prime Minister to do the right thing - to give the people a final say.
Walthamstow today's Brexit update for you on Thursday 17th October - basically PM has agreed a hard brexit and that's what's on the table for parliament to vote on this Saturday (spoiler I think it's terrible so no" https://t.co/iIqPmSO40B
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