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Brexit: MPs vote down Lords amendments to internal market bill – as it happened

Latest updates: move to remove clause allowing UK to break international law is rejected in Commons vote

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The government has said it may drop key clauses from a bill that would breach international law by letting the UK unilaterally rewrite parts of the Brexit departure agreement.

On Monday night the House of Commons voted down a series of five Lords amendments that had removed the controversial clauses from the internal market bill.

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