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If Theresa May’s deal is rejected by Parliament again on Tuesday, it will be another humiliation for her, her Government and for our country too.

I know how frustrated people are with this situation.

These past two years we’ve been badly let down by an incapable Prime Minister and an incompetent Government too busy fighting with itself to focus on what is in the best interests of the country.

After two years of failure, we need a change of approach.

More than fifty days ago, Theresa May suffered the worst parliamentary defeat of any Prime Minister in history over her failed Brexit deal.

Immediately after that defeat she had a choice. She could have tried to find common ground for a deal that Parliament could and would accept.

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Alternatively she could have chosen to continue her focus on the extreme in her own party and pander to their demands.

The Prime Minister chose the second option. Once again she put the interests of the Conservative Party before the interests of the country.

Since then we’ve seen the spectacle of a government desperately promising changes to a deal it knows it cannot deliver.

Ministers have raised expectations that they cannot fulfil. This is as irresponsible as it is reckless.

In doing so, the Prime Minister has run down the clock and wasted the opportunity to broker an agreement that could have united the country.

The stark truth is that the deal the Prime Minister brings back this week will not have changed.

In all likelihood not a single word will be different from the deal that was rejected in January.

It will still be a bad deal for jobs, the economy and British manufacturing. A bad deal for national security.

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A bad deal for workers’ rights and the environment. It will be the nothing has changed deal from the nothing has changed Prime Minister.

Labour voted the deal down in January for good reasons and we firmly believe that we have no choice but to do so again in the coming days.

Labour will always act in the public interest. That’s why I can make three promises to Sunday Mirror readers today.

First, we will work with all sides to block a no deal Brexit in Parliament this week.

Second, we will protect jobs and the economy by supporting measures that provide more time to find a way to break the Brexit deadlock.

And third, we will take all necessary action to stop a damaging Tory Brexit being forced on this country, including supporting a public vote.