Westminstenders: Super Saturday

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Parliament sits on a Saturday for the first time since the Falklands.

A deal has been reached with the EU. Its utterly shite and worse for the UK than May's deal. It even leaves no deal as an option after transition.

The DUP don't like it. They got predictably shafted.

Tomorrow is a debate and vote on the deal. Amendments are key, in particular the Letwin amendment which seeks to close a loophole in the Benn Act and stop the Deal being adopted tomorrow, instead forcing the ultimate decision over the deal to a later date and forcing an extension.

Which the EU may or may not agree to.

There is also talk of forcing another ref via amendments but this, unlike the Letwin amendment is unlikely to pass.

The vote tomorrow looks to be very tight. The Letwin amendment passes looks likely to make Johnson fail to have the numbers. However there is talk that enough Labour MPs have decided to back the deal.

There is also a big anti Brexit march in London tomorrow (which runs the risk of having problems with the Extinction Rebellion ban). Good luck to everyone going tomorrow.

See you on the other side (which might now be on this thread!!)

that was a roar of noes. If this doesn't pass I'm going to cry a little.

Thank you to everyone for great posts on this thread. Switching between this, the guardian and FT love blogs for great insights and news.

Love? Live.
Am in the US so dont have good live TV coverage.

Hallow has had enough of Brexit

I also didn't like the relative noisiness of the Noes Bercows

@ArseDarkly ah yes. Thanks. My brain is broken. I have a migraine and all the shouty people haven't been helping.

DUP backing Letwin

Beth Rigby saying that the DUP will be supporting Letwin.

Feel your pain PotterHead but it's going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better

But I do believe it WILL get better!

Isn't it!! 😩

Dup should give it the numbers, shouldn't it? My parliamentary maths is terrible!

Let's hope no one walks through the no lobby by mistake

I'm nervous, I'm not even sure what the best result is today.

Any tweets from anyone saying how busy in the ayes lobby?

Someone on Sky saying they don’t think they had enough labour MPs to block this amendment

Govt preparing to lose Letwin apparently

I've seen speculation of Letwin passing by 5

@Dontlickthetrolley Laura k says texts saying DUP followed labour for amendment. Shocker

I have cramps from the tension ffs

Think it's gonna be close but will pass. Wonder what that'll mean for the bill

Laura Kuenssberg@bbclaurak
Result should be soon - remember what this vote is - if it's a win for Letwin, Parly would withold legal backing for govt deal unless and until ALL of the laws that go alongside the deal have passed through parliament -in practice it'd mean the PM has to write to ask EU for delay

Nicholas Watt @nicholaswatt
DUP source: We voted for Letwin with reluctance to give us space to put Northern Ireland safeguards in #Brexit Bill

Will the conservatives bother voting if they lose this?!?