Theresa May was mocked for dragging MPs into Brexit "Groundhog Day" after her anticipated plan B for leaving the bloc appeared very similar to her original blueprint.
The prime minister was forced to come to the Commons after her Brexit deal was comprehensively rejected by MPs last week by a record 230 votes to present her new plan for leaving the European Union.
Her "neutral" motion will be debated and voted on - along with any amendments tabled by MPs - on 29 January but has been widely criticised for being extremely similar to her initial plan.
Ms May vowed again to seek changes to the Irish border backstop – despite the EU repeatedly insisting it will not budge.
Business leaders united to criticise the statement describing it as “another bleak day”, as it appeared the UK was now one step closer to crashing out of the EU with no agreement on 29 March.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged her to drop her "red lines" to win support from parliament, amid pressure for her to seek changes to the controversial Irish backstop part of her Brexit deal.
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Conservative minister Richard Harrington has urged Theresa May to rule out a no-deal Brexit, as the prime minister prepares to outline her alternative plans to parliament.
The business minister, who repeated his threat to resign should the government oversee such a scenario, said he was “afraid” firms such as Jaguar and Mini could close in the UK under the “absolute disaster” of a disorderly exit.
Mr Harrington echoed demands made by Jeremy Corbyn, who has insisted in recent days the prime minister must take no deal off the table before engaging in cross-party talks over Brexit.
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Mr Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the European Research Group (ERG), told LBC radio: "If the Conservative Party could reunite with the reasonable elements of Ukip that would be very good news and Nigel would be part of that."
He said that such a move would "be much easier now than it would have been when he was still a member of Ukip", because of the eurosceptic party's new links with Tommy Robinson.
Mr Farage quit Ukip last year over current leader Gerard Batten's association with Mr Robinson, the co-founder of the English Defence League.
Mr Rees-Mogg added: "It may be a little bit early, though personally I hold Nigel in the highest regard and think he was one of the people who was instrumental in delivering Brexit... but perhaps a little bit more purdah is required."
In an interesting bit of timing, European leaders are meeting in Brussels for the EU's Foreign Affairs Council.
German foreign minister Heiko Maas told reporters: "We are all quite keen to see what we will hear from London today.
"It is about time. We know what London doesn't want, now we must at last find out what they want and what there is a majority in parliament for, so we can sit down with our colleagues from London and talk about how we avoid a hard Brexit, a Brexit without an agreement.
"It appears that everyone wants that, so it must be possible."
Asked if he had confidence in Theresa May, Mr Maas replied "Of course". But asked whether it was now "too late", he said: "I don't really know."
He added: "It is important that the outcome is not a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, because as we saw this weekend, nerves are on edge there.
"Europe is a peace project and Europe cannot do anything which leads to conflicts breaking out again in a part of Europe where they have long since been laid to rest.
"It's a very sensitive issue and therefore it's an issue which in the discussions to come I cannot imagine there will be much change."
She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: "As a very important trading partner for us, at the point the UK is ready to do so, we are very keen to enter into a free trade agreement.
"We are ready and willing and I think we're an excellent potential future partner for that. For us, you're still a significant trading partner... We would consider it to be a real priority for us."
Ms Ardern said it was a matter for the UK to decide on the nature of its withdrawal from the UK, but she added: "From our perspective, and from New Zealand businesses' perspective, no deal would be very difficult."
Labour has asked the BBC for unseen footage of last week’s Question Time and demanded a correction during next week’s episode as a row over the show’s treatment of Diane Abbott deepened.
The party has made a formal complaint to the broadcaster over what it called the “unacceptable” treatment of Ms Abbott, the shadow home secretary.
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One of the groups expected to amend Theresa May's Brexit plans today includes senior Labour MP Yvette Cooper and Tory former minister Nick Boles, who are seeking time for a bill to suspend the Article 50 withdrawal process if there is no new deal by the end of February.
Ms Cooper told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she believed the PM was hoping parliament would rule out no deal on her behalf.
She said: "I think she (Mrs May) knows that she should rule out no deal in the national interest because it would be so damaging. She's refusing to do so and I think she's hoping that Parliament will do this for her - that is not leadership."
Asked if the Good Friday Agreement could be rewritten, Theresa May's spokesman said: "No. The PM has been clear on multiple occasions that we are committed to upholding the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts and to delivering a solution that avoids a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland."
On the prospect of a bilateral agreement with the Republic of Ireland, the PM's spokesman said: "It's not something we are looking at."
He would not pre-empt the statement - but acknowledged those would have to go beyond the reassurances given by the EU last week, which failed to head off the record defeat on the meaningful vote
"We have to bring forward something that is different," he said.
The spokesman refused to be drawn on whether that would involve reopening the withdrawal agreement, which the EU has repeatedly refused to do - and which Ms May herself has previously said cannot be done.
Lots of chatter about Yvette Cooper and Nick Boles' amendment to the Brexit motion Theresa May will table later today. John Rentoul writes 'In a bizarre turn of events, Theresa May could get her Brexit deal through after all – the key lies with Yvette Cooper'.
The government spent between £60,000 and £65,000 of taxpayers' money on driving lorries down the A256 in Kent earlier this month, ministers have said.
The Department for Transport revealed the cost of the planning exercise for a no-deal Brexit in response to a parliamentary question from Lib Dem MP Tom Brake.
The exercise was designed to test whether roads in Kent could cope with the additional traffic that would follow a no-deal exit, if lorries entering the UK have to undergo border checks at Dover.
Mr Brake said: "For Chris Grayling, blowing £65,000 of taxpayers' money on paying lorry drivers to drive round in circles and drink coffee is just loose change. He normally squanders millions.
"This money would obviously have been better spent on the salaries of two nurses or police officers instead of a hare-brained scheme attempting to simulate the chaos associated with major no deal-linked disruption at Dover."
Theresa May's hopes of avoiding a chaotic Brexit face another blow from a House of Lords ambush that would stop the imposition of essential new trade rules.
The government is set to be defeated on Monday when peers rebel over ministers’ refusal to guarantee food safety, animal welfare and the power of parliament to block a free-for-all, The Independent has learned.
In an extremely rare move, the Lords is poised to vote to shelve the Trade Bill unless the government agrees to put flesh on the “skeleton” – something ministers have failed to do for 15 months.
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Ireland's European Affairs minister has ruled out bilateral talks on Brexit with the DUP and any other political party in the UK.
Helen McEntee said the Brexit negotiations are between the EU and the UK, following reports of the possibility of a new treaty between the UK and Ireland to replace the Irish backstop.
Speaking on Morning Ireland, she said: "What we can't do and won't do, because we have not throughout this entire process, is engage in any kind of bilateral negotiations with the DUP or any other political party in the North or the UK."
Ms McEntee, however ruled out tweaking the Good Friday peace agreement.
She said: "It is not negotiable for us and I really doubt any parties in the South or North or those in the UK would agree to it.
"We have 94 per cent of the people here who voted overwhelmingly to support the Good Friday Agreement and it was over 70 per cent in the North.
"To suggest that after only 20 years we would try to amend it or change it, it's not something that we would consider and not something I think the Prime Minister would consider.
"Everything we are hearing is speculation and until the PM actually brings forward her motion, all of this is speculation."
The DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson said that the possibility of the EU and the UK resolving the backstop issue without the input of Belfast and Dublin is "unrealistic".
He said: "What we need to do is to find solutions and it is evident from the vote in the House of Commons last week that there are concerns, not just in the DUP, but across the House of Commons on the proposed backstop arrangement.
"We need to find a way of addressing those concerns and that means we need to be talking."
The Polish government has broken ranks from other EU member states and suggested giving in to Theresa May’s demand for a time-limit on the controversial Brexit backstop.
Arriving in Brussels for a meeting, foreign affairs minister Jacek Czaputowicz suggested a time-limit of five years on the policy – meeting demands of Tory Brexiteers.
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