May: wrong to say Brexit will stop EU nationals' ability to 'jump the queue' - Politics live
 

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s statement to MPs about yesterday’s EU Brexit summit

4.56pm GMT

Stephen Crabb, the Conservative former cabinet, suggests MPs opposed to the deal are not “grounded in reality”.

4.54pm GMT

Sammy Wilson, the DUP’s Brexit spokesman, asks about Emmanuel Macron. Does May not realise that in signing this agreement she is handing the EU a cudgel to use against the UK.

May says she does not accept this. If the UK is in the backstop, it will be outside the CFP, and able to decide what boats can enter British waters.

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