MPs trade bitter blows over Brexit trigger bill

Speaker John Bercow revealed that no fewer than 99 MPs had applied to speak in more than 11 hours of debate, which ends at midnight. During his speech, the former Cabinet minister incensed Tory MPs by comparing Brexit to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland, and said Enoch Powell would regard today's Conservative party as "anti-immigration". The split in the Labour Party was also laid bare as Catherine West - a junior frontbencher who is now facing the sack - defied Jeremy Corbyn an