Brexit: May suggests she will prepare for no deal if MPs vote down her plan - Politics live
 

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May taking questions on Brexit from the Commons liaison committee

9.45am GMT

Q: If someone insisted on there being a hard border, who would build it? The UK? Ireland? The EU?

May says she can only speak for the UK government. She has said she would do everything to avoid a hard border.

9.40am GMT

Julian Lewis, the Conservative chair of the defence committee, goes next.

Q: Under what circumstances could a hard border be erected between Northern Ireland and the Republic?

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