Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit speech - as it happened: Labour leader backs UK membership of a customs union after leaving EU

Liberal Democrats leader Vince Cable tweeted that Jeremy Corbyn's customs union stance was a "small step to sanity", but added: "In £SingleMarket he is still following @theresa-may cake and eat it policy. Just wants red cherries rather than blue raisins." 

Following his speech in Coventry, the Labour leader has done an interview with the BBC.

Asked whether today's speech was a change in policy or firming up what the party has already been saying, he replied: "Firming up what we've already been saying all along actually - what we said during the referendum campaign and what we've said in the manifesto." 

He says any agreement reached would not leave Britain as "takers" of the rules and have significant influence.

Corbyn was also interviewed by ITV News. He said if the Government fails to win the vote on a final Brexit deal, it has two choices: negotiate a new deal or call a general election.

This is from the Press Association on David Lidington's speech on Brexit and the devolved administrations from earlier:

David Lidington has urged Scottish and Welsh ministers to accept an offer from Theresa May's administration to rewrite the flagship Brexit bill to address their concerns.

Westminster is at odds with Holyrood and Cardiff Bay about whether powers returned from Brussels after Brexit go to the devolved administrations or the UK Government.

Mr Lidington said Brexit must not be used as an excuse to break up the United Kingdom at "a crossroads in our history".

He said the Government had made a "considerable offer" to the devolved administrations with a commitment that the "vast majority" of powers returning from Brussels will start off in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast rather than Whitehall.

"Let's be in no doubt: this would mean a very big change to the EU Withdrawal Bill that is before Parliament and a significant step forward in these negotiations," he insisted.

"This would put on the face of the Bill what we have always said was our intention: wide-ranging devolution not just away from Brussels, but from Westminster too.

"If accepted, this offer puts beyond doubt our commitment to a smooth and orderly departure from the European Union, in a way that doesn't just respect the devolution settlements, but strengthens and enhances them."

Mr Lidington said under the plans Westminster would only be involved where a "pause" was necessary to draw up a UK-wide framework to protect the "UK common market" or to meet international obligations.

He added that the proposals showed the Government's "seriousness about delivering more powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland" while preventing extra red tape for businesses trading across the four nations of the UK.

Commenting on David Lidington's speech, Ian Murray MP, a supporter of Open Britain, the pro-EU pressure group, said: “Having triggered Article 50 prematurely and largely ignored the concerns of the devolved legislatures, Ministers are now scrambling to sort out the mess they have created.

“An unspecific offer of new powers in the future, while proposing to centralise decision-making now, is neither in the spirit nor in the letter of the devolution acts. It’s a power grab, pure and simple.

“The Government are acting in bad faith and in doing so they are only storing up problems for the future. They are leaving the lasting impression that, when it comes to devolution, it is not so much that they don’t get it, but that they don’t care.

“Conservative MPs in Scotland, and the Secretary of State, have repeatedly said that the plans for devolution post-Brexit were flawed. Today should have been when we heard how they were going to be fixed, but instead we got platitudes.

“As it becomes ever clearer that Brexit threatens both the Good Friday Agreement and the integrity of the devolution settlement we all have the right to keep an open mind about whether it is right for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.” 

Boris Johnson is now speaking in the Commons on Syria – he says the war has created a humanitarian tragedy seen nowhere else in the world and over 400,000 lives have been lost. He is now speaking about Eastern Ghouta and accuses the Assad regime of starving and beating the citizens there into submission. 

He says Britain has joined with allies in the security council to call for an immediate seize fire and delivery of humanitarian aid. He says the war planes of the Assad regime are still striking the enclave and the UN has been unable to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies.

“Only a political settlement in Syria can ensure that the carnage is brought to an end,” Johnson adds. “Today, only the Assad regime stands in the way of progress” he says – urging Russia to persuade Assad to come to the negotiating table. 

Emily Thornberry is now speaking on Syria. The Shadow Foreign Secretary says the indiscriminate bombing of civilians and targeting of hospitals is simply a “war crime” and there "must be a reckoning for those responsible"

Responding to Mr Corbyn's statement that Labour would seek to keep the UK inside the European atomic energy community Euratom, Nuclear Industry Association chief executive Tom Greatrex said: "The UK's civil nuclear sector has consistently stated that remaining a member of Euratom after the UK leaves the European Union is its preferred option, offering continuity and predictability in an otherwise uncertain environment for the UK.

"The Government's position to replicate the current Euratom arrangements has already proved to be both a time-consuming and uncertain process, and it has only just begun."