We are going to show you some of the opening session early today, the first time in 37 years at the house of met on a saturday. Order, statement, the Prime Minister. Prime minister johnson mr. Speaker, i want to begin by echoing what you just said. I think all the members of the house assembling on a saturday for the first time in 37 years and to members of the house of commons staff who worked to make this sitting possible, and i note people giving up there saturdays and breaking into their weekends at a time when families want to be together and it means missing at least the ends of englands world cup final. I apologize to the house for that. I know the honorable member of has is west cardiff west postponed his 60th birthday party, but not his birthday to be here. The house has gone to a great deal of trouble to assemble on a saturday for the first time in a generation. And, i do hope that in assembling for the purposes of a meaningful vote that we will be allowed to have a meaningful vote. Permission, i shall make a statement on the new agreement that our european friends. The house will need no reminding that this is a second deal in the fourth vote, 3. 5 years after the nation voted for brexit. Friendships years, have been strained, families divided, and the attention of this house consumed by a single issue that at times felt incapable of resolution. I hope, mr. Speaker, that this is the moment where you can finally we can finally achieve the resolution and reconcile the instincts that compete within us. Years,mes in the last 30 i have heard our european friends remark that this country is halfhearted in its e. U. Membership. It is true that we in the u. K. Have often been a back marker, opting out of the single currency, not taking part, very often trying to block some collective ambition. In the last 3. 5 years it has been striking that members on all sides of this house have debated brexit in almost entirely practical terms in an argument that is focused on the balance of economic risk and advantage. Ado not think i can recall time where i have heard a Single Member call for britain to play her full part in the political construction of a federal europe. I do not think i have a single menu member call for deeper integration or a federal destiny. I do not think i have heard much of it, mr. Speaker. Of that a whole side debate that you hear regularly in other european capitals. It is absent from our national conversation. I do not think that has changed much in the last 30 years. Skeptical,have been and if we have been anxious about the remoteness of the bureaucracy, if we have been dubious about the rhetoric of union, and integration, if we have been halfhearted europeans, then it follows that with part of our hearts, with half of our hearts, we feel something else. Respect forove and european culture and civilization of which we are a part. With ourto corporate friends and partners in everything, creativity creatively, artistically, in a , and aur shared destiny deep understanding of the internal eternal need. This is for britain to stand as a guarantee or of peace. It is because we are capable of being both things at once. We can be skeptical about the modes of e. U. Integration, but passing it passionate and enthusiastic about europe that the whole experience of the last 3. 5 years has been so difficult for this country and so divided. That is why it is now so urgent for us to move on, and to build a new relationship with our friends in the e. U. On the basis of a new deal, a deal that can heal the rift in theish politics, unite warring instincts in us all. And now, it is the time for this great house of commons to come together and bring the country together today. And, as i believe, people at home are hoping and expect. And a new way forward, new and better deal both for britain and for our friends and that you e. U. E you and that is the deal. This allows the u. K. Whole and entire to leave the e. U. On october 31 in accordance with the render with the referendum while simultaneity is simultaneously looking forward to a new partnership. I pay tribute to our european friends for escaping the prison of existing positions, and showing division to be flexible the vision to be flexible by reopening the Withdrawal Agreement. And to address the concerns in our house. Jobs is to important express those concerns to our european friends, i will continue to listen to all honorable members to meet with anyone on any side, and to welcome the scrutiny the house will bring to bear as we proceed to consider the withdrawal bill next week. Has a historicse opportunity to show the same breath of vision as our european neighbors, the same resolve to past disagreements to get it done. Forwardsg this country as we learn to do. This agreement provides for a real exit taking back control of our borders, laws, money, farming, fisheries, and trade. Amounting to the single greatest restoration of national sovereignty. Backstop which wouldve held us against their will in the Customs Union and much of the Single Market. For the first time in almost five decades, the u. K. Will be able to strike trade deals with our friends across the world. To benefit the whole country ireland, northern article four of the protocol states that Northern Ireland is part of the customs territory of the United Kingdom. Nothing prevents Northern Ireland from realizing the preferential Market Access in any free trade deals. On the same terms as goods produced in other parts of the United Kingdom. Our negotiations are focused on the uniquely sensitive nature of the border between Northern Ireland and the republic, and we have respected the sensitivities. And our european friends have preserved the letter in the spirit of the belfast good friday agreement, and have compelled the longstanding areas of cooperation between the u. K. In ireland including the common travel areas. House, intold the order to prevent regulatory bo rders, we propose a regulatory good a wrigley tory zones regulatory zones. We have gone further by finding a solution to the best question of customs which many in this house have raised. Our agreement ensures, unfettered Market Access for goods moving from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdoms in the internal market. It ensures that there should be no tariff on goods circulating in the u. K. Customs territory and less they are at risk of entering the e. U. Border on theopen andand of island ireland a Common Objective of everyone in this house. Living andfor those working alongside the border that there will be no visible or practical changes to their lives and they can carry on as before. I believe that this is a good arrangement, reconciling the special circumstances in Northern Ireland with the minimum possible consequences. And, it is for cicely to ensure that those arrangements are acceptable to the people of Northern Ireland that we have made consent a fundamental element of this new deal. No arrangements can be imposed on Northern Ireland if they do not work for Northern Ireland. The people of northern will have the right under this agreement to express or withhold their consent to these provisions. Vote fourf a majority years after the end of the transition. If the assembly chooses to withhold consent, these conventions provisions will cease to apply after two years during which the joint committee of the u. K. And e. U. Would propose a new way forward in concert with Northern Irelands institutions. As soon as this house allows the process of extracting ourselves from the eeo to be completed, the exciting enterprise of building a new relationship with our friends can begin, which has been too long delayed. I do not this project to be the project of anyone government where one party, rather the endeavor of the United Kingdom as a whole. Only this parliament can make this relationship the work of the nation. Parliament should be at the heart of decisionmaking as we develop our approach, and i acknowledge that we have not always acted in that spirit. As we take forward our friendship with our closest neighbors and construct that new relationship, i will ensure that a broad and open process draws upon the wealth of expertise in every part of this house, including select committees and their chairs, and every party and member who wishes to contribute will be invited to do so, and we shall start by debating the mandate for our negotiators in the next phase. In eaker, the m bistro the ambition is contained in the role devised the revised political declaration which allows for this house to contort to determine our own laws and determinations. I have complete faith in this house to choose regulations in our best tradition of the highest standard. Tradition, and the highest standards of Environmental Protection and workers rights. No one anywhere in this chamber believes in lowering standards. Tead speaker the statement by the Prime Minister must be heard, and it will be. Prime minister johnson no one believes in lowering standards and we believe in improving them as we will be able to do. The opportunities of our new freedoms, for example, free from the Common Agricultural policy we will have a simpler system where will we we will reward farmers for improving our environment, and animal welfare. Many of whose provisions are impossible under the current deals, instead of just paying them for acreage. Free from the common fisheries policy we can ensure sustainable yield based on science not outdated methods. Bese restored powers will available not simply to this government, but to every future British Government and any party to use as they see fit. That is what restoring sovereignty means, that is what meant in practice taking back control of our destiny. Decision, for which i will believe there will anynanimity is that in future trade negotiations, with any country, our National Health service will not be on the table. Mr. Speaker, mr. Speaker i thatage i am convinced an overwhelming majority in this house regardless of our personal views wishes to see brexit delivered in accordance with the referendum. A majority. And in this crucial mission, there can no longer be any argument for further delay. This is someone who passionately believe that we had to go back to our european friends to seek a better agreement. I must tell the house that with this new deal, the scope for future negotiation and fruitful negotiation has run its course. They said, they said they could not we could not reopen the with raw agreement. They said we could not reopen the Withdrawal Agreement, we cannot change a comma, change the agreement. They said we could not abolish the backstop, mr. Speaker. We have done both. It is now my judgment we have reached the best possible solution, so those who agree, like me, that brexit must be delivered, and who like me prefer to avoid a no deal abandon the delusions that this house can delay again. There is very little appetite among our friends in the eu for extended byto be one extra day. They have had 3. 5 years of this debate that has distracted them from their own projects and ambitions. And if there is one feeling, if there is one feeling that unites the British Public with a growing number of officials in the eu, it is a burning desire to get brexit done. And i must tell the house, again, in all candor that whatever letters they seek the government to write, it cannot change my government that further delays are pointless, expensive and deeply corrosive of public trust. And people simply will not understand how politicians can say with one breath that they and delay to avoid no deal, then with an express that they breath that next they still want delay when a great deal is left to be done. Now is the time to get this thing done. And i say to all members, let us come together to end, let us come together as democrats to end this to debilitating this debilitating feud. Let us get behind this deal, the one proposition that fulfills the verdict of the majority, for which also allows us to bring together the two halves of our nation. Lets speak now, both for the 52 and 48. Lets heal this country. Lets vote for a deal that will heal us and allow us to express our desires with our deepest friendship with our neighbors. A deal that allows us to create a shared destiny with them. And a deal that also that also allows us to express our confidence in our own democratic institutions, to make her own laws, to determine our own future, to believe in ourselves once again as an open, generous, global, free trading United Kingdom. That is the prospect. That is the prospect of this deal. It is a great prospect and a great deal. And i commend it to the highest. Jeremy corbyn, the leader of the opposition. Mr. Corbyn thank you, i join you in thinking all the staff thanking all the stuff that has come into help us. They have given up a weekend in order to help our deliberations. I also want to thank the Prime Minister for an advance copy of a statement. He has renegotiated the Withdrawal Agreement and made it even worse. He has renegotiated the political declaration and made that even worse. We are having a debate today on noext of which there is Economic Impact assessment and no accompanying legal advice. This government has sought to avoid scrutiny throughout the empty promisesde on workers rights and the environment. The same government that spent the last few weeks negotiating in secret to remove from the Withdrawal Agreement legally binding commitments on workers rights and the environment. This government cannot be trusted and of these ventures will not be duped. Neither will the government neither will the governments on workers, the head of the civil yesterday met the right honorable member and at the conclusion of that meeting he said, i asked for reassurances that the government would not diverge on workers rights after brexit. He could not give me those assurances. and as for the muchhyped, world leading environment bill, the legally binding targets will not be enforceable until 2037. For this government, the Climate Emergency can always wait. Mr. Speaker, the steel risks work,s jobs, rights at the environment and our National Health service. We must be honest about what this deal means for our Manufacturing Industry and peoples jobs. Not only does it reduce access to the market of our biggest trading partner, it leaves us without a Customs Union, which will Damage Industries all across this country in every one of our constituencies. Sunderland, to airbus, and . Where land rover in burlington and for thousands of jobs depend on a Strong Manufacturing sector. And that sector needs markets with fluid supply chains all across the European Union. A vote for this deal would be a vote to cut manufacturing jobs all across this country. This deal, mr. Speaker, would inevitably and absolutely inevitably lead to a trump trade deal. Forcing the. U. K. To diverge from the highest standards and expose our families, once again, to chlorine washed chicken and hormone laden beef. This deal the responsible leader of the opposition in the traditions of our democracy must also be heard. And it will. Jeremy corbyn. Mr. Corbyn this deal enshrines the principle we keep pace with the European Union on Environmental Standards and protections, putting at risk our current rules from air pollution standards to chemical safety. We all know the public concern about these issues. All at the same time that we are facing a Climate Emergency. We as for workers rights, simply cannot give the government a blank check. Mr. Speaker, you do not need to take my word for all of this. Listen, for example, do the tuc general secretary who says this she does represent an organization that has 6 million members affiliated to it. This deal, mr. Speaker, would be a disaster for working people. It would hammer the economy, cost of jobs and sell workers rights down the river. Representative of the british manufacturers. The members might care to listen to these comments. The commitments to trading relationships have gone. Under this deal, differences in regulation between the u. K. And the eu, without cost and bureaucracy. Our companies will face a lack of clarity, inhibiting investment and planning. Listen to the green alliance, who said the deal amounted to a very sad brexit read from a climate perspective. The message is clear, the steel is deal is not good for jobs, damaging for our industry, and a threat to our environment and our natural world. It is not a good deal for our country and future generations will feel the impact. It should be voted down today by this house. I totally understand the frustration and fatigue across the country and in this house, but we simply cannot vote for a the that is even worse than one that was rejected three times. The governments own Economic Analysis shows of this deal would make the poorest regions even poorer. And cost each person in this year. Y over 2000 pounds a if we vote for a deal that makes our constituents poorer, we are not likely to be forgiven for doing that. Mr. Speaker, the government is claiming that if we support their deal, it will get brexit done. And that backing them today is the only way to stop a no deal. I simply say, nonsense. Supporting the government this afternoon would merely fire