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The Government's Brexit White Paper was branded an "utter shambles" after the Tories forced MPs to debate a plan they hadn't seen.

The Commons was suspended in a rare move to give MPs five minutes to read the detailed plan.

But MPs on all sides of the House complained about the lack of time available.

Senior Tory Sarah Wollaston said it was impossible to scrutinise the new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab on a Paper they hadn't read.

Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Raab had "not got off to a very good start".

The Shadow Brexit secretary said: "The utter shambles of the last 20 minutes that led to the suspension of the House during a statement is clear evidence of why the Government is in such a mess."

He asked why the Government thought it appropriate to share the White Paper with journalists at 9am on Thursday morning, "only to provide the opposition with a copy three hours later".

Earlier Mr Bercow told ministers it was a "source of considerable unhappiness on both sides of the House" that the White Paper had not been made available earlier.

He said: "Members of Parliament should have a copy of the White Paper about which they are to question him."

"It is most regrettable that this situation has arisen, but I'm dealing in a way that I think is constructive with what has arisen."

The long-awaited White Paper sets out the government's plans for their negotiating stance with the EU.

The 98-page White Paper, agreed at a Cabinet summit at Chequers last week which led Boris Johnson and David Davis to quit the Government, outlines UK proposals for what Mrs May describes in a foreword as "a principled and practical Brexit that is in our national interest and the UK's and the EU's mutual interest".

It includes a range of measures including "mobility" rules which will end automatic freedom of movement, but allow UK and EU citizens to travel without visas for tourism and temporary work and enable businesses to move staff between countries.

It would commit the UK to participation in and financial contributions to European agencies covering areas like chemicals, aviation safety and medicines.

And in a bid to solve the Irish border dilemma, it proposes a so-called facilitated customs arrangement.

This would remove the need for checks and controls between Britain and the EU and allow differing UK and EU tariffs on goods from elsewhere in the world to be paid at the border, removing the need for rebates in the vast majority of cases

But the proposal has already gone down badly with the Tory Brexiteers who are threatening to withdraw their support from Theresa May.

Brexiteer and former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith says he has "deep misgivings" about the government's plans.

Chair of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg lays into Theresa May's Brexit white paper: "The overall consequence is that we will be a rule taker, de-facto subject to the European Court of Justice and it's hard to believe that there is even a tinge of pink left in Mrs May's red line on this.

"It is hard to see that any of this meets the promises Mrs May made in her earlier speeches. We have not known such vassalage to the continent since King John paid homage to the King of France [in 1200]'

Rees-Mogg: "The wording on migration means nothing. They have climbed down on everything else. People tend to behave in a consistent way. They are keeping the option of free movement by another name open."