Just after half past midnight here in bbc news. It is now time for tuesday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to tuesday in parliament, where the government bill setting out the terms of the uks divorce from the eu clears its first hurdle in the commons. The ayes to the right, 329. The noes to the left, 299. But mps reject a tight timetable to get it through the commons by october the 31st. The Prime Minister says because of that, hell put the brexit bill on hold. But insists. One way or another, we will leave the eu with this deal, to which this house has just given its assent. Also on this programme. A plea for the government to help british children trapped in syria. And condemnation of Barclays Bank as opts out a scheme allowing customers to get cash at post offices. It seems that some banks are only interested in big cashless customers that have large deposits. But lets start by going back to the beginning of the day. Boris johnson opened the first general debate on the bill which would make his eu withdrawal deal law. Thered been much speculation about whether hed have enough mps to back him given that he doesnt have a majority in the commons. The arguments were familiar as borisjohnson set out his stall one more time. If this house backs this legislation, if we ratify this new deal, which i believe is profoundly in the interest of our whole United Kingdom and our european friends, we can get brexit done and move our country on. The government is refusing to publish an Impact Assessment of this deal. He is expecting mps to vote for something that we know will damage this country economically without revealing the Impact Assessment. What does this government have to hide . Because shes had an answer from my right honourable friend the chancellor yesterday, and i think it will be clear to everybody that the best. In fact, the best way to avoid any disruption from a no deal brexit is to vote for this deal today. One of the labour mps whod backed the agreement previously had a question. I welcome the pledge that an environment will enhance and not reduce uk standards but will the Prime Minister not commit today to reinforce its ambition with the clear non regression clause as we have on workers rights and write this into the bill . Will the Prime Minister commit today. Would that not provide some of the reassurance the house needs about not only protecting but enhancing Environmental Standards . I can make that commitment, and i thank the honourable lady. I thank the honourable lady for the work she has done and is doing to champion the environment. A Northern Ireland mp turned to the new arrangements for the province, which would give the assembly a say on future economic arrangements. There is not a single sentence in this bill which explains the new consent process contained in the Prime Ministers brexit deal. I say very clearly to the Prime Minister do not take the people of Northern Ireland for fools. We are not fools. The Prime Minister needs to explain in detail how his new consent process operates. A process by which there are a small minority of economic arrangements in which Northern Ireland remains in alignment for sanitary and for manufactured goods for four years unless and until by majority vote of the stormont assembly, Northern Ireland elects to remain in alignment. Otherwise, for the vast majority of the Northern Irish economy, of course, Northern Ireland exits with the rest of the uk whole and entire. It is quite clear that whatever he says about Northern Ireland being in the uk Customs Union, de facto the European Union customs code applies in Northern Ireland if the protocol comes into place, which requires exit declarations from Northern Ireland. Yes, it does. The brexit secretary said opposite yesterday and was corrected by hmrc. There are no checks, gb and i, there will light touch measures to ensure there is no illegal trade. Illegal trade. Illegal trade in endangered animal species, in endangered animal species and banned firearms. Not everybody will be happy with what the Prime Minister is putting forward but all communities should be happy that nobody is talking about a coach and horses being driven through the good friday agreement, and there are no communities particularly at the border who are now fearful of a resurrection of violence and bloodshed and hatred, the Prime Minister is to be congratulated. I congratulate the Prime Minister for securing a deal, i never doubted it for a minute. Can he reassure me that the moment this bill receives royal assent, hopefully sooner rather than later, he will work tirelessly along with the secretary of state to secure as close as possible relationship to european science and Research Funding . Boris johnson thanked his brother and said he would. But getting mps to give initial approval to the bill was only half the battle. The government was also proposing a timetable, known as a Programme Motion, to put the bill through parliament in just a few days, with the aim of getting the uk out of the eu by halloween. And there was to be a separate vote on that timetable after mps had voted on the bill. An snp mp had some breaking news. The bbc breaking news app is reporting the Prime Minister has said that if he loses the Programme Motion, the bill will be pulled. The government and Prime Minister is working with the house and has he given you any sense that the bill will be pulled tonight . The Prime Minister has not given me any indication on that matter. If parliament refuses to allow brexit to happen and instead gets its way and decides to delay everything untiljanuary or possibly longer, in those circumstances, can the government continue this . I would very much regret i will go to the point the honourable gentleman raises, with great regret i must say the bill will have to be pulled and we will have to go forward much as he may not like it and be left to go forward to a general election. A deal and a bill that fails to protect our rights and our natural world. Fails to protectjobs and the economy. Fails to protect every region and nation in the United Kingdom. This bill confirms that Northern Ireland is really in the Customs Union of the eu and goods will be subject to tariffs. Does he think we should still leave the European Union, yes or no . We are challenging this bill today and that is the whole point of this debate. And as he well knows, my partys policy is in government, we would negotiate an appropriate deal with the eu and allow the people to decide the final decision on that. Those of us who are seeking to engage in detail are not because we support a tory brexit, our votes at the reading are by no means secure, but because we want to see if we can improve this deal and keep Peoples Trust in our democracy. The labour leader turned to the time the government wanted to allocate for debate on the bill. To propose a Programme Motion at the end of this debate will mean that all 68 clauses have yet to be considered and voted on within the next what, 24 48 hours, starting this evening. It is actually an abuse of parliament and it is a disgraceful attempt to dodge accountability, scrutiny and any kind of proper debate. I was incredibly concerned when i was reminded by my wife earlier today that we spent, my wife and i spent longer choosing a sofa than we have to debate this incredibly important bill. They always say that the devil is in the detail. And having seen some of the detail, it confirms everything we thought about this rotten deal. A charter for deregulation across the board. Paving the way for a trump style trade deal that will. They dont like hearing this, so i will say it again, paving the way for a trump style trade deal that will attackjobs, rights and protections. The snps westminster leader accused the government of ignoring devolved institutions in scotland and wales. Ian blackford said the bill should not become law without the consent of the Scottish Parliament and welsh assembly. We were told after our referendum in 2014 that we were to leave the uk. To lead the uk. There was the respect agenda, that we were an equal partner and our opinions would be respected. Yet here we are today, our parliament, our views disregarded. Our rights as eu citizens to be taken from us against our will. But theresa mays former deputy said one devolved institution, in belfast, would gain more power under the bill. No other Regional Parliament or assembly anywhere else in europe has the power unilaterally to decide to end the application of a sect of European Union rules and regulations to its territory. The lib dems werent convinced. This brexit deal will be bad for our United Kingdom family of nations. It beggars belief that this conservative Prime Minister has agreed to a deal which will see a border down the irish sea, something he said he would never do. There are people who will try to use this to break up our country and we must not let them break up our family of nations. Scotland, england, wales, Northern Ireland, we are stronger working together. And the dup werent reassured by borisjohnson about the change to trading rules for Northern Ireland. I nearly choked when the Prime Minister said it. When he told us, well, dont worry about it because all of these changes which will affect Northern Ireland will be light touch. Its not really a boundary down the irish sea. Just light touch regulations. Light touch regulations which would require firms to make declarations when they sell goods to another part of their own country, will have to pay duties for goods to come from a part of their own country which incur costs on them. At least i will have had some respect for the Prime Minister if he said, i have a deadline of the 31st of october, i have to get it round, have to get around to it, and therefore im having to make concessions and unfortunately Northern Irelands concessions and you will understand. But what i dont take is a Prime Minister who thinks i cant read the agreement that has been published and i cant see in the agreement what the impact is on Northern Ireland. The impact on Northern Ireland continued to divide mps. Actually as somebody who served in the troubles in the 19805, the union means a lot to people who serve on both sides. We dont take this lightly, i assure you and if i believed this was a threat to the union, i wouldnt be supporting it. I would say to the honourable gentleman he should listen to those voices from Northern Ireland and its notjust the dup, notjust the honourable lady representing north down, it is across the community, this is a genuine threat and it is incredible that members of the conservative and Unionist Party are prepared to vote through this bill with the attendant protocols which undoubtedly will mean there will be in perpetuity a separate arrangement for Northern Ireland because theres nothing in this bill that will allow things to change. Former ministers were split over the governments plan to fast track the bill through parliament. My big beg to the house here, and here i am speaking to colleagues who voted for brexit, is lets please in these very, very final stages do it properly. This is your great, great family moment. This thing is an opportunity for you to create an enormous constitutional change which can last for the next a0 years. So please do it properly. Weve had more than 100 hours in committee over the last three and half years. The reality is if there is anything about this arrangement that we have not now debated, thrashed to death, i would love to know what it is. I do very much regret the Programme Motion. It is really treating the house in an insulting way. And it says something about this government which worries me. Im a conservative, even if ive lost the whip, i remain a conservative. And to see a government with a constitutional measure playing really bully boy tactics with this house can only be counterproductive to the very aims the government itself would like to achieve. It is not the quiet government that i came in to try and deliver, and i regret very much therefore that i will vote both against the Programme Motion and against the governments bill. Dominic grieve. Well at the end of that debate it was time for mps to vote. First on whether or not they backed the general principles of the Withdrawal Agreement bill. The ayes to the right, 329. The noes to the left, 299. The ayes have it. Unlock so a win for the government by 30. Then it was on to the vote on whether to push the legislation through parliament in just a few days, in time for the uk to leave the eu on october the 31st. And this time things did not go the governments way. The ayes to the right, 308. The noes to the left, 322. The labour leader was first to his feet. He said the house had refused to be bounced. And he had an offer for the Prime Minister. Work with us, all of us to agree a reasonable timetable and i suspect this house will vote to debate, scrutinise, and i hope amend the detail of this bill. That would be the sensible way forward. And that is the offer i make on behalf of the opposition tonight. The Prime Minister didnt reply to that as he set out his next steps. I must address my disappointment that the house again voted for delay, rather than a timetable that would have guaranteed that the uk would be in a position to leave the eu on october the 31st with a deal. And we now face further uncertainty and the eu must now make up their minds over how to answer parliaments request for a delay. And he said hed be putting the Withdrawal Agreement bill on hold. I will speak to eu Member States about their intentions until they have reached a decision. Until they reach that decision, we will pause this legislation. Let me be clear. Our policy remains that we should not delay, that we should leave the eu on october the 31st, and that is what i will say to the eu and i will report back to the house. One way or another, we will leave the eu with this deal to which this house has just given its assent. Cheering. And i thank members across the house for that hard won agreement. This is yet another humiliating defeat for the Prime Minister this evening, who has sought to railroad through this house legislation that requires proper scrutiny. And rightly, this house has spoken with a very clear voice, to tell the Prime Minister that he is not on. The lib dem leader had some advice. To seriously and respectfully and engage with our european friends to secure an extension to article 50 to enable this house to pass legislation for a peoples vote, or if he prefers, to have proper scrutiny of his bill or indeed it may well be for a general election. All of those things require a decent extension to article 50 and he should be a statesman and go and secure it. And there was an invitation from the dup. Sit down with us and talk to us again about what can be done even at this late stage to ensure that we join in this great quest to get brexit done, but as one United Kingdom. Nigel dodds at the end of a dramatic evening that left the brexit bill in limbo. Youre watching tuesday in parliament, with me, Alicia Mccarthy. Dont forget you can follow me on twitter bbcalicia. Mps have appealed to the government to help dozens of british children who are reported to be trapped in northern syria. Theres been ferocious fighting since america withdrew its troops from the area. Turkish forces crossed the border in an offensive against kurdish led fighters, who were previously allied to the us. Save the children say at least 60 british youngsters many of them under five are living in desolate conditions in camps in the region. A conservative mp said the children had lived through some of the most brutal and inhumane fighting of modern times. Some International Allies have already used the five day cease fire to fulfil their duties and repatriate their own children. If we do not do the same, british children will be left at the whim of a brutal dictator, or terrorist organisation or rov