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As it happened: MPs approve EU-UK Brexit trade deal
Labour: We have no choice but to back dealpublished at 14:25 Greenwich Mean Time 30 December 202014:25 GMT 30 December 2020
Winding up for Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves says her party will back the government, rather than expose the UK to the "chaos of a no deal".
Speaking via video link, she argues that the deal is not "good enough" but it is the only reasonable current option.
The UK's trade surplus with the EU on services has not been protected by the government, Reeves says.
And the "reality of poor preparations will bite hard" at the UK's ports at the start of next year, she warns.
To abstain - as other opposition parties plan to do - "is to fail to choose" between a "limited deal and no deal at all", Reeves, says.
Labour, when it returns to power, "will build on" what Boris Johnson's government has negotiated, she concludes.