Unable to support it because it wasnt beneficial to the economic well being of Northern Ireland and may undermine the integrity of the union. There had been positive noises from conservative hard brexiteers who voted against theresa mays deal, although they said they wa nted mays deal, although they said they wanted to see the final text first and there is a risk the dup position might put some of. It is hugely concerning, if one part, the dup, are unwilling to support the aspects of the deal that borisjohnson is negotiating with the eu that affects Northern Ireland, there is a question as to whether that complies to the good friday agreement when it comes to consent. What is coming out of brussels is that he has actually managed to negotiate something that is even worse for our negotiate something that is even worse for oui economy negotiate something that is even worse for our economy than what theresa may had put forward. We are talking about an act of economic vandalism which would be worse for the economy than the financial crash. What we want to see is this being defeated because lets be clear that this deal, the so called deal that borisjohnson is bringing forward, is going to be economically damaging. There are going to be people on the dole, quite simply it isa people on the dole, quite simply it is a price not worth paying. Some mps are considering voting for the deal, but that would be going against the Party Position. We believe the deal that had been proposed is heading britain in the direction of a deregulated society, selling off assets. As it stands we cannot support this deal and we will oppose it in parliament on saturday. Some of the former tories sacked for opposing no deal are expected to vote for it. Boris johnson opposing no deal are expected to vote for it. Borisjohnson has told the eu he has faith he can convince enough mps to back his deal when he puts it before parliament on saturday, but he is notjust relying on persuasiveness. If the eu does not agree to rule out a further delay, he is hoping for some mps that will significantly change the calculation. If there is one thing weve learned, it is that the commons is more than capable of throwing up surprises when it comes to brexit and there is every chance they will be a few more in store over the next few days. We are able to go live to westminster to speak to my colleague. Helen, good to have you with us. I am curious to hear how this deal is going down where you are. Has there been any movement over the past hour . The only movement weve seen is actually from the dup to possibly stand firm, if you like. They released a statement saying this is not in the economic well being of Northern Ireland, it undermines the integrity of the union and they will not be voting for this deal on saturday. As you havejust not be voting for this deal on saturday. As you have just heard, politicians saying they will not vote for the deal. A lot of people saying they wont be backing it. They will be a degree of reflection going on among individual mps in westminster. There are some individual labour mps who are considering whether or not to vote for this. Over the hard end of the conservative party, they were making noises of the proposals earlier this week and have concerns about what the dup are saying. Some of them have said that they have a couple of concerns with the political declaration as well. I think there is going to be a lot of thinking going on. If borisjohnson does manage to effectively change the rules of the game, by pushing for this, as you were just talking about, the eu should rule out any further delay, he will be hoping that if he changes the circumstances for mps by effectively framing this as vote for this deal or there is no alternative. Over recent weeks we have learned that the commons can be very flexible in finding ways around things and bringing things in from the backbenches. We may see another couple of days of that sort of activity here. Helen, i wasjust reading activity here. Helen, i was just reading that lawmakers are due to vote later today on whether to go ahead with this saturdays sitting, but i was under the impression it was definitely going ahead. What light can you shed on that . It is part of the way that westminster works. Usually if you want to hold an extra special sitting like this you put it to a vote at the commons, so you put it to a vote at the commons, so it is a standard bit of procedure. There was a suggestion that the government may not put it toa that the government may not put it to a vote but i suspect it will want mps to vote on this on saturday. There had been a suggestion earlier that some mps might oppose that but now that there is a deal i would imagine it is going to go ahead, but the official vote later today. If the ten dup members abstain, and my question may be to you, do they a lwa ys my question may be to you, do they always vote as a block . Are they a lwa ys always vote as a block . Are they always in lockstep . Do you think borisjohnson always in lockstep . Do you think Boris Johnson might be always in lockstep . Do you think borisjohnson might be able to get the votes from elsewhere if he does not have their support . It is hard to see on the surface where it comes from and it makes it a lot more challenging. They do tend to vote together so, so that would be ten votes that he is losing straight off the bat. It is whether they abstain or vote against it could make a difference. The other thing about the dup is they do carry weight and influence with some conservative backbenchers, so you could lose a few more as a result of the dup position which increases the challenge for Boris Johnson. The dup position which increases the challenge for borisjohnson. A lot of the things that have come up in this negotiation dont look like the sort of thing that would make it more appealing for a neighbour or Opposition Mps to come across and vote for, and that is where he will be trying to make up the numbers and also former conservatives that he sacked from the party for opposing no deal, about 21 of those. They will be looking at this deal carefully because they are under no obligation to vote for it. He is going to have to look to pick up those votes in unexpected places, and the places this deal is not necessarily designed to appeal to. Im curious as well when this came through, and i amjust im curious as well when this came through, and i am just seeing a line coming in that the European Council conclusion say the uk will have left by the 1st of november, that they are making this call this afternoon to try and make that happen. In westminster, what was the reaction when word of this deal began to filter through . Here there was excitement, i suppose, filter through . Here there was excitement, isuppose, as filter through . Here there was excitement, i suppose, as people began to look through the draft of the text. I think it is in that detail. The reaction was. We had seen so much build up yesterday and we are used to be in march to the top of the hill and then back down again but there was an element of surprise that he has got this deal that a lot of people said was not possible. As he said, the issue is always going to be in the detail as people look at this, look at the full text and decide whether or not it is something they can support. It is going to be that slightly more perhaps measured, slow pace as people digest this as the deal start to come out and people start to consider their position ahead of saturday. I have chris morris, yes. So, with that i am also seeing. I am also seeing that mps are rating on an amendment that would allow for longer debate and table amendments on saturday if the house where to sit. They are expected to have those results. We are going to turn to the press c0 nfe re nce results. We are going to turn to the press conference that we have been waiting for, and borisjohnson. Will this be a victory lap that he is taking . Lets watch. Good to see you. Good to see the premise. My friend borisjohnson. We have a deal. And this deal means there is no need for any kind of prolongation. This is a fair, balanced agreement. It is testament to our commitment to finding solutions. It provides certainty where brexit creates uncertainty. It protects the rights of our citizens and it protects peace and stability on the island of ireland. There will need be no border on the island of ireland and the Single Market will be protected. The deal is not about us. Be protected. The deal is not about us. The deal is about people and peace. And i look forward to continue my conversations with boris because we start the conversation on future relations immediately after the deal will have been moved. We will start the debate without interruption. Tonight, together with Michel Barnier, i will explain the deal to the heads of state and government. And of course, it is for both our parliaments to have the final say. It is not only westminster having to approve the deal. It is also up to the European Parliament to do the same. So, thank you, boris, for i have to say excellent relationship we had over the last weeks. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jean Claude Juncker. Can i thank you very much. Thank you, jean claudejuncker. Can i pay particular tribute to you, and also of course to Michel Barnier and all your team and the negotiating team in the commission. And i do think that this deal represents a very good deal, both for the eu and the uk. It is a reasonable, fair outcome and reflects the large amount of work that has been undertaken by both times. I believe with what you said about protecting the Peace Process on the island of ireland and in Northern Ireland and of course for us in the uk it means that we can deliver a real brexit that achieves our objectives and it means that the uk leaves whole and entire on october 31 and it means Northern Ireland and every other part of the uk can take part notjust in free trade deals, offering our tariffs, exporting our goods around the world, but it also means that we can take, together, as a single United Kingdom, decisions about our future, about our laws, borders, our many and how we want to run the uk. Those decisions will be taken in the uk by elected representatives. And i hope very much now, speaking of elected representatives, that my fellow mps in westminster do now come together to get brexit done, to get this excellent deal over the line and to deliver brexit without any more delay so that we can focus on the priorities of the british people, improving our health service, investing in 20,000 more police, lifting up the living wage and many, many other things. Jean claude juncker, ijust many other things. Jean claude juncker, i just want to conclude many other things. Jean claude juncker, ijust want to conclude by agreeing wholeheartedly with your final point. Now is the moment for us final point. Now is the moment for us to get brexit done and then together to work on building our future partnerships. I think they can be incredibly positive, both for the uk and for the ego. Ijust remind you of what ive always said, that we are a quintessential european country, solid european friends, neighbours and supporters and we look forward to working with you in building that partnership in the weeks and months to come. Thank you all very much. Hey jean claude hey Jean Claude Juncker hey Jean Claude Juncker is hey Jean Claude Juncker is the hey jean claudejuncker is the boss here i have to say that im happy about a deal but i was sad about brexit. Have a good time. Thank you. So, i guess thejournalists so, i guess the journalists that have been waiting for so long to get perhaps an answer to their questions, they are not going to get it right now from Jean Claude Juncker or, indeed, from Boris Johnson. Very short. Really, i suppose they took their time to get straight to westminster in the next pa rt straight to westminster in the next part of the deal about getting the vote through. As i speak to you in the council building, i can see the ca is the council building, i can see the ca rs of the council building, i can see the cars of the dignitaries arriving. That statement kicking off proceedings as they are giving that statement on what they have achieved this morning. Which is this agreement between the uk and the eu. There they are, shaking hands. I suppose a triumphant moment for borisjohnson really, suppose a triumphant moment for Boris Johnson really, as suppose a triumphant moment for borisjohnson really, as he makes his way to brussels with a deal in hand that he can go back with, and whether it will be accepted or not is another story that we are going to continue following in the coming hours. Who better to go through it with us than chris morris . Great to have you back with us. How would you describe the tone of borisjohnson . How did he do . Warm words, which i think is what you would expect a situation like this. Leaving the eu is not leaving europe. That is way down the track. Most importantly, the appeal. We know the dup, the ten mps from Northern Ireland have said they will not be voting so the numbers are tight. The mps back in westminster have voted for that session to go ahead on saturday, so i guess. The first one since the falklands war in the early 1980s. I think war in the early 1980s. Ithinka war in the early 1980s. I think a lot of these steps for brexit have been of historic significance. It has been going on for over three years but even though they have been here before, it is this chance for borisjohnson to try to make it his and for britain to leave the European Union. I thought it was interesting that he brought up, as it was interesting that he brought up, as i mentioned, westminster. Pretty close out the gate. He also called the uk a quintessentially european country. I was kind of surprised by those words . I dont think so. The uk knows it cannot change its geography. It wa nts a cannot change its geography. It wants a more hands economic approach from the eu and he wants a chance to fulfil a promise of being a buccaneering free trade exponent, but others may say it doesnt make up but others may say it doesnt make upfor but others may say it doesnt make up for the trade you may be losing from having such easy access to the sea large to the large European Market on your doorstep. He knows he has to cooperate with the European Union on many of the issues of the day climate change, cross borders, crime and so forth. You do need that cooperation. Those who dont favour brexit say that so many of those things are going to be made so much more difficult by the fact we are leaving the eu. We have a system that works at the moment with cross border crime and shared databases the cross border crime and shared data bases the uk cross border crime and shared databases the uk will not have Automatic Access to after brexit. All of that will need to be renegotiated in future. We must remember that even if this deal gets passed in the Uk Parliament and brexit happens at the end of this month, that is only the beginning of the end. There is a vast negotiation to come over what exactly the future relationship looks like in terms of trade, security and Foreign Policy among other things. Looking at the leaders of the eu, Emmanuel Macron speaking outside. He is addressing the press, and france and germany had key roles to play with this deal. The two biggest, most influential countries in the eu. Both of them yesterday saying that they hoped the deal was close to fruition but again, we said this already several times this morning and its worth emphasising, they have been here before. Nearly a year ago, november 2018, they did a deal that theresa mays government, which was rejected three times. Despite the fact Boris Johnson has done something many of his critics said he wouldnt be able to do, remove the controversial irish backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement, all the signs are that he will have a wafer thin vote on his hands in the house of commons on saturday and at the moment, i would say its more likely than not that he will lose it. Plenty of arm twisting to come over the coming days but the numbers are very difficult without those ten mps from the dup. The irish taoiseach has been on twitter over the past half hour, saying we have the Brexit Agreement that allows the uk to leave in an orderly way, a unique solution for Northern Ireland that respects history and geography. It is good for ireland and Northern Ireland, no hardboard, all for ireland and Northern Ireland, no ha rdboa rd, all ireland for ireland and Northern Ireland, no hardboard, all ireland can thrive, protects the Single Market and our place in it. But the view instead from the dup. It is interesting that he used the word unique because it is worth emphasising that they are trying to set upa emphasising that they are trying to set up a custom structure, an economic relationship that is not really in place anywhere else in the world. The idea of a deal customs zone where you have a legal border in one place but a practical border in another. All sorts of elements of this deal are things that arent really done in most borders around the world, which is why there was a last minute hitch about vat. That is another issue which is a complexity which you always face when you come toa which you always face when you come to a border between two custom zones and two regulatory zones. These are difficult issues, which is why it has been so hard to reach this agreement. I wonder, because that draft of the text that you have been going through is published, that is what th