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Watch: Anna Soubry and Jacob Rees-Mogg clash in the Commons

There are still a few hours to go until Parliament votes once again on Brexit, but it is already getting somewhat heated in the Commons. Anna Soubry attempted to take Jacob Rees-Mogg to task over his decision to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Here’s what she said:

Would he like to tell the House why it is that, a few weeks ago, he voted against the government’s withdrawal agreement, but on Friday he voted for it? And why he is entitled to a vote and to change his mind but the people of this country are not?

But unfortunately for Anna Soubry, her decision not to stand for a by-election having resigned the Tory whip came back to haunt her. Jacob Rees-Mogg had this to say in response:

The right honourable lady, the foremost campaigner for a second referendum, the right honourable lady who favours votes at every opportunity, except when having stood as a Conservative she does not offer herself to her constituents for them to decide whether they wish to have someone who has turned their coat as their member of parliament.

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