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The SNP's Tommy Sheppard calls on Michael Gove to say "what is he not telling us".

He wants to know why the minister "continues to commit hundreds of civil servants and waste hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money on an objective we have consistently ruled out".

Mr Sheppard says the PM has acted with "all the enthusiasm of a petulant schoolboy" in asking the EU for an extension to Brexit - but he has done it.

So he wonders whether all the planning is based on an expected refusal from the bloc.

The SNP MP also pushes Mr Gove on why 31 October is so important.

"How come this date... has become elevated to extent it has?

"This government has a Halloween fetish. The only reason it matters... is to save face for this prime minister."

He adds: "It is a rum day indeed when the government is more concerned with the vanity of the prime minister than making good legislation."