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Jeremy Corbyn tore into Boris Johnson's promises on workers' rights and environmental protection in a testy exchange over the PM's Brexit deal.

The Labour leader hit out at the provisions in the Brexit bill which offer "no real protection".

And the Prime Minister ducked the crucial question about why he had moved workers' rights and environmental standards out of the legally binding withdrawal bill and into the political declaration.

The leaders clashed during a heated Prime Minister's Questions held minutes after a meeting between the two leaders over the parliamentary timetable finished without agreement.

It came after the Prime Minister's bill passed its crucial second reading but was halted in its tracks after MP's voted against

The PM decided to "pause" the legislation following the defeat of the programme motion.

MPs refused to allow the PM to restrict scrutiny of bill to just three days in effort to meet 31 October deadline.

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Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions today Mr Johnson said it is a "great shame" that MPs "willed the ends but not the means" in last night's Brexit deal votes.

Mr Corbyn accused Mr Johnson of "delaying his own Withdrawal Bill".

The Prime Minister hit back: “I must say I find it peculiar that [Corbyn] now wants this bill back because he voted against it last night and he whipped his entire Labour party against it."

The protection of workers' rights is a key sticking point for Labour MPs in

The Labour leader said of Mr Johnson: "He promised to maintain environmental, consumer and workers' rights. Why then did the Prime Minister have these commitments removed from the legally-binding Withdrawal Agreement?"

Mr Johnson replied: "I don't think we could have been clearer yesterday in our commitment to the highest possible standards for workers' rights, for environmental standards."

He said the Prime Minister "once said employment regulation was backbreaking".

Mr Corbyn added: "The provisions in the bill offer no real protection at all."

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The Labour leader also attacked the Tory PM's record on the NHS.

He told PMs: "I hate it to break it to the prime minister, but under his government and that of his predecessor privatisation has more than doubled to £10bn in our NHS.

"There are currently 20 NHS contracts out to tender.

"And when he’s promised 40 hospitals, he then reduced that to 20 and then it turns out reconfiguration is taking place in just six hospitals."

Mr Johnson replied: "I must say that he is completely wrong in what he says about privatisation of the NHS and I must resist this."

He added: "This party and this Government believes in sound management of the economy not recklessly putting up corporation tax, not recklessly wrecking the economy ... re-nationalising companies in the way that he would do."

The bad natured exchanges over the Brexit bill came after their meeting over the timetable which broke up without agreement.

The Prime Minister took the Labour leader up on the offer, made last night when MPs rejected Mr Johnson's timetable.

The pair met in Mr Johnson's House of Commons office.

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Last night, Mr Corbyn said that Labour was prepared to work with the Government to agree "a reasonable timetable" to enable the Commons to debate and scrutinise the legislation properly.

"That would be the sensible way forward, and that's the offer I make on behalf of the opposition tonight," he said.

A Conservative source said: "PM met Corbyn this morning in his office in the House of Commons to discuss whether Labour would back a timetable that allows us to actually get Brexit done rather than yet more delay."