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Labour's Keir Starmer tonight savaged Theresa May's Brexit 'deal' in a fiery House of Commons statement.

The former Director of Public Prosecutions swept into full lawyer mode as he held aloft hundreds of pages of documents in a furious attack.

He spoke after Theresa May jetted to Strasbourg for a last-ditch deal with the EU to persuade MPs to vote for her Brexit deal tomorrow night.

Her deputy, David Lidington, told MPs the government had secured "legally-binding changes" that "strengthen and improve" the 585-page Brexit deal.

He said a new "joint instrument" will prevent the EU trapping the UK in the Northern Ireland backstop - a clause that would extend EU customs rules over the UK - indefinitely.

And there will be a "joint statement" supplementing the future political declaration on trade setting out a "negotiating track" for changes to the Irish backstop.

But Mr Lidington prompted shouts of uproar when he said MPs must now back the deal... to avoid a "crisis".

Jeremy Corbyn insisted that her negotiations had "failed" and called on MPs to reject the deal.

And Sir Keir shot down Mr Lidington's argument by saying Theresa May had promised to change the Brexit deal itself - and achieved no such thing.

Waving a fat wad of legal papers, Labour's Shadow Brexit Secretary asked: "Is a single word of the Withdrawal Agreement different now to the document that was agreed on November 25?"

He added: "It sounds again as if nothing has changed.

"And if that is right, the Prime minister is left with a pile of broken promises.

"It's as much a matter of trust as substance."

Sir Keir branded the situation "absurd" and made a cruel joke at the Cabinet Office minister's expense.

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"I don’t complain for not having advance notice of his statement," he told MPs.

"I’m not sure HE'S got advance notice."

Sir Keir said MPs will be "disappointed but not surprised".

He said Labour would examine the plans, but boasting of "significant change" when just repeating a January statement "is not going to take anyone very far".

Theresa May, speaking in Strasbourg, said the deal would "honour the referendum result" and is good for both the UK and the EU.

She said she had secured "legally binding" changes to the Irish backstop.

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But Labour MPs lined up to savage the new arrangement.

Wes Streeting tweeted: "Sat in the Chamber genuinely stunned by the futility and incompetence of the Government’s statement.

"We’re days away from exit. This is just smoke and mirrors."

Labour MP Tracy Brabin added: "Late night statement and still no wiser.

"He’s saying words but none seem to make sense.

"The new letter/agreement isn’t part of the withdrawal agreement we will be voting on tomorrow."