Is going under the hammer in geneva tonight. Bids are expected to top 25 million. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Mps have begun debating key legislation that will pave the way for brexit. As expected no amendments have yet been made to the eu withdrawal bill. As the debate got under way earlier, sharp divisions within conservative ra nks sharp divisions within conservative ranks were exposed with the government warning rebels that they risked playing into labours hands in they vote down the legislation. 0ur chief Political Correspondent vicki young is in westminster for us now. And the government has safely negotiated the first two votes in this marathon session really. Tonight they will go on till almost midnight, the first of eight days of line by line scrutiny of this withdrawal bill. Much of the discussion today was about the governments desire to put the brexit date into law. Labour are not happy about this. They feel that its a happy about this. They feel that itsa gimmick