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Our Scotland correspondent, Libby Brooks, was at this evening’s press conference near Glasgow. She has just filed this report:

Theresa May has accused shadow chancellor John McDonnell of wanting to overturn the will of the British people, while urging MPs of all parties to consider the “significant responsibility” of deciding whether to support her Brexit deal in the Commons early next month.

McDonnell told the BBC that it was “inevitable” that Labour would back a second referendum if May’s deal is defeated but the opposition is unable to force a general election.

May said: “His comments about the second referendum today show that what the Labour Party want to do is frustrate Brexit. They want to overturn the will of the British people. Parliament overwhelmingly gave the British people a vote. They voted to Leave. I think it’s a matter of trust in politicians that they actually deliver on Brexit for the British people.”

May was speaking after meeting workers at the Scottish Leather Group in Bridge of Weir, near Glasgow, as part of a UK-wide publicity blitz to sell her Brexit deal to the public ahead of the meaningful Commons vote in less than a fortnight, which she looks set to lose by a significant margin.

Theresa May reacts during her visit to the Scottish Leather Group. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/AFP/Getty Images

She denied that she was scared of debating Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has said that she wants to be included in the televised head-to-head between the prime minister and Jeremy Corbyn, adding: “This isn’t a question about debating leave or remain, it’s about looking ahead to a vote that is taking place in the Commons when MPs will be looking at the deal that the government has negotiated. I think people should be aware of what the proposals from the leader of the opposition are. From everything I’ve seen and heard he doesn’t have a plan for Brexit”.

The prime minister was in Scotland for a matter of hours, travelling north after taking prime minister’s questions in the Commons and returning to London in the early evening.

Asked how she intended to pull together sufficient support for her deal in the Commons, she said: “People are making a lot of statements and assumptions about what will happen. What I’m saying to MPs is that the vote is a moment of significant responsibility when MPs need to consider the need to deliver on the Brexit vote in a way that protects jobs and livelihoods in the UK.”

She said that she had not yet seen the Bank of England’s analysis released on Wednesday afternoon, which suggested that the pound would crash and inflation would soar under a no-deal Brexit, but that the government’s own modelling of a range of scenarios for leaving the EU, released earlier today, “clearly shows is that the best deal available that honours the referendum is the Government’s proposal.”

“If you look at the analysis, what it shows is that we would not be worse off compared to where we are today, our economy will grow in all of the scenarios, the question is how far the economy grows in all of those scenarios and there are different figures. What it shows is that the best deal that delivers on the referendum, offers to opportunities of Brexit and also protects jobs and the economy is the government’s deal.”