Brexit deal: Theresa May defends EU agreement in press conference after flurry of cabinet resignations

Jeremy Corbyn is now responding. He says the withdrawal agreement represents a "huge and damaging failure". 

He finally says - what we've all expected - Theresa May's deal does not meet Labour's six Brexit tests. 

Corbyn says the agreement states transition extension (permitted in the treaty text) would allow the UK to remain in that phase until "20XX" which he interprets to being 2099. 

Corbyn says by 2021, in the PM's plan, we will either be in the "backstop" or in an extended transition period. 

"After two years of negotiation all the government has really agreed is a vague, 7 page political declaration," he says. "There is only the scantiest mention of workers' rights." 

"Uncertainty continues for business... that risks decisions for investments to be deferred even longer. No clear plan."

"This is not the deal the country was promised and parliament cannot - and I believe will not - accept this false choice between this deal, and no deal," he adds.

He calls on Theresa May to withdraw the deal. 

May responds saying 500-odd pages of a withdrawal agreement is not "ill-defined". She adds 

Ian Blackford, the SNP leader in Westminster, says the PM is trying to sell a deal that is "dead in the water" - "Not even her own Brexit secretary could support it," he says. "The Number 10 front door has become a revolving one."

"She can't even control her own cabinet," he says. What is "absolutely shocking" is that there is not one mention of Scotland in the text. "No reference to Scotland - utter contempt has been shown to the Scottish people and parliament". 

"If Northern Ireland can stay in the single market, why not Scotland?"

"Show some respect to the devolved institutions."

Blackford calls on Theresa May to "stop the clock", and extend the Article 50 period, reopening the negotiations with Brussels.

Sidepoint, but Esther McVey leaving the DWP clears the way for the sixth work and pensions secretary within three years - at a time when the government is rolling out one of the most complex reforms of welfare in decades.

Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader in Westminster, says the deal presented to Parliament shows the prime minister "does not listen". Yet another sign that the supply and confidence agreement between the Conservatives, and the DUP, is collapsing. You can also take that as a clear sign the DUP will not be voting for the deal.

Bill Cash - a longstanding Eurosceptic who had campaigned for years towards leaving the bloc - says the agreement is evidence of "absolute capitulation" to the European Union. 

May rejects this, saying this UK will "control our laws".