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Video has emerged of soldiers on a shooting range in Kabul firing at a target of Jeremy Corbyn. MOD confirms it as legit: pic.twitter.com/qOr84Aiivj

— Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) April 3, 2019

PM asked by Owen Smith about accepting customs union with confirmatory vote - PM says there is a number of areas she can agree over on "delivering Brexit". Avoids ref issue.

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) April 3, 2019

Quincy Endicott wrote:

Gargantua wrote:Lek je raskulačivanje, jbg.

We cannot risk giving the keys of the EU’s future to a Boris Johnson, or a Michael Gove, the architects of this #Brexit disaster. A long extension would do exactly that. pic.twitter.com/TyFX2lepic

— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) April 3, 2019

A #Brexit extension can only be considered, EU leaders said, if the House of Commons has approved some kind of Brexit plan before 12 April - be it a permanent customs union, joining EEA, or a second referendum.

— Dave Keating (@DaveKeating) April 3, 2019

The EU would refuse to open trade talks with Britain after a no-deal Brexit until the UK decided to sign up to the main elements of the withdrawal agreement anyway, the European Commission has said.

Speaking in the European Parliament on Wednesday Jean-Claude Juncker said the Irish border, citizens rights, and the divorce bill would need to be agreed before any other negotiations could begin.

The announcement pours cold water on Brexiteer hopes that the UK could get a better deal by refusing to pay the unpopular £39 billion financial settlement or sign up to the controversial backstop, and then negotiate a separate trade agreement.

“The UK will be more affected than the EU because a managed or negotiated no-deal does not exist, any more so than a transition period for a no-deal,” Mr Juncker told MEPs.

“Whatever happens the UK will have to respond to the three main questions of the separation: one, citizens rights, they must be respected and protected. Two, the UK will have to continue to honour its financial commitments taken as a member state. And three, a solution will have to be found for the island of Ireland, preserving peace and the single market.

“The UK must respect the spirit and the letter of the Good Friday Agreement. No withdrawal agreement does not mean no commitment and the three questions that I have just mentioned will not disappear overnight: they will constitute strict conditions for rebuilding trust and launching discussions on the future.”

Jeremy Corbyn says his crunch Brexit talks with Theresa May went "very well."

After the talks, which lasted just over two hours, Jeremy Corbyn told the Mirror that they had gone "very well" and that he expected to sit down again with the PM soon.

Talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were took place in the Prime Minister's office in the Commons.

Also attending were Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay, chief whip Julian Smith and senior Number 10 aides on the Government side and shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey and shadow chief whip Nick Brown on the Labour side.

Amid claims that Labour could table a no confidence motion in the Government if talks broke down, a Cabinet minister told the Mirror they thought that was "unlikely".

"There are a lot of independent MPs in the Commons just now.

"If they vote against the Government in a confidence vote and trigger a general election they will lose their seats."They don't want that, so they may well abstain."

SNP, Lib Dems, Independent Group, Plaid Cymru and Greens unite to demand second referendum