Theresa May faces the threat of key MPs derailing her Brexit deal, as they lined up to demand she removes a central part of it.
The prime minister faced hostile criticism from prominent Conservative backbenchers and
her partners the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in a dramatic Commons showdown.
Fresh from a statement on the steps of Downing Street, she headed to parliament to sell a deal reached overnight by negotiators in Brussels.
But it took 39 minutes of debate before her first positive response.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn led the charge by announcing his MPs would vote down the two documents unveiled this week.
He called the non-binding political agreement on the UK's future relationship with the EU "26 pages of waffle" that amounted to a "vague menu of options".
Mrs May hit back by jumping on Mr Corbyn's admission to Sky News last week that he had not read every word of the draft divorce deal and suggested he had done the same again.
She also name-checked former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, thanking him for proposing solutions to the Irish border problem.
- News.sky.
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