EXCLUSIVE. DexEU’s Alternative Brexit White Paper – Canada Plus Plus Plus. 7) The forward process

The seventh extract from the fullest draft of the proposals that were put together by the Department for Exiting the European Union.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May looked white, tense and hunched, but she won

Grieve behaved with the prudence of the Grand Old Duke of York, but suggested everyone has gone mad.

Six Tory MPs backed the Grieve amendment, and four Labour MPs supported the Government

Does the narrowness of the win signal further problems to come, or has the Government headed off the revolt?

WATCH: “I am prepared to accept the Government’s difficulty” – Grieve calls off his ‘meaningful vote’ rebellion

The former rebel-in-chief says he is reassured by “the obvious acknowledgement of the sovereignty of this place…in black and white.”

Davis’s written ministerial statement on what a motion in neutral terms means

This form of words citing the Speaker is the gambit by which ministers and whips hope to avert a Grieve-led rebellion today.

WATCH: May – “Parliament cannot and should not overturn the will of the British people”

The Prime Minister say it’s important “we recognise the concerns that people have about the role of parliament”.

WATCH: Lee – “Ultimately, I had to put my country before [my] friendship” with the Prime Minister

When asked if resigning was worth it, he says, “I think I moved the government on its position”.

WATCH: Braverman says that “tying the hands of government” has a “detrimental consequence” for the UK-EU negotiations

The Brexit minister says the government needs “as much flexibility as possible to go back and negotiate with the EU”.

WATCH: Buckland – “Where we stand, we support the government’s amendment as tabled”

But, he adds, “I’m not going to gainsay what the Lords will produce”, and “the Lords are just as important an element in this as the Commons”.

WATCH: Grieve says “I had a really sensible outcome and I was very pleased with it”…

…but that now, “We might as well have not done the whole negotiation”.

Sheila Lawlor: The Lords’ amendments are legally unnecessary and economically counter-productive

They assume that no deal would be a disaster, but in fact the £40 billion we’re set to pay the EU could be a real boost to the British economy.

Labour splits three ways over the EEA – including 15 MPs voting with the Government

Seventy-five MPs disobeyed Corbyn to back the EEA, joined by three Conservatives. And six more Labour frontbenchers resigned.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: the Chief Whip crouches in front of the Prime Minister

Last-minute concessions appear to have saved the Government from defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill

WATCH: Buckland negotiates with Grieve from the despatch box about the “meaningful vote”

The Solicitor-General offers to meet the rebel-in-chief to discuss his amendment. Meanwhile, Rees-Mogg mounts a constitutional argument against it.

Henry Newman: Navigating the EU Withdrawal Bill through unamended without a majority is nightmarish – but possible

Labour have sunk efforts to trap us in the Single Market. A compromise should kick the Customs Union can down the road. Which leaves the ‘meaningful’ vote.