MPs have debated the final stage of the EU Withdrawal Bill before a vote later this evening approving the passage of the legislation to the Lords.
Dozens of MPs made contributions but the most significant came from Justine Greening, the former Education Secretary, who made her first intervention since leaving the Government last week.
She warned that Brexit will “not be sustainable” if it does not work for young people, adding that future generations of MPs could seek to “improve or undo” what the current cohort implements.
“The bottom line is that looking ahead if Brexit doesn't work for young people in our country, in the end it will not be sustainable,” she said.
The debate came after Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn closed in the Commons at Prime Minister’s Questions over the dramatic collapse of the construction and services company Carillion.
The Labour leader used all six of his questions to ask about the issue, having previously called for the directors of the failed firm to give back their multi-million pound bonuses.
The company is the second biggest construction firm in the UK and employs 20,000 people across the country and managing 450 government contracts.
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Universal Credit combines several welfare payments into one and is aimed at mimicking wage payments but critics say it is pushing people into poverty.
The First Minister joined Children's Commissioner Bruce Adamson on a visit to food bank and poverty support service Start Up Stirling on Wednesday and heard from claimants who needed food aid and help dealing with rent arrears.
Nationally, around one in four new claimants (24%) waited more than six weeks to receive their first payment.
Changes were announced in the UK budget to reduce waiting times but the Scottish Government said these do not go far enough and want a maximum four-week limit.
Ms Sturgeon said: "The rising use of food banks, with charities like Start Up Stirling forced to step in and provide support, is symptomatic of a broken welfare state.
"It is abundantly clear that the Universal Credit system is failing those it is designed to support."
She added: "The new Secretary of State must admit that Universal Credit is forcing families into crisis and take the step her four predecessors wouldn't - by halting the roll-out of this fundamentally flawed system."
Mr Adamson said: "Along with the Children's Commissioners from the other parts of the UK, I remain deeply concerned about how children are disproportionately affected by decisions made on welfare, such as calculating Universal Credit entitlement and how it is then paid."
A Department for Work and Pensions spokeswoman said: "Reasons for food bank use are complex, so it's wrong to link a rise to any one cause.
"Universal Credit lies at the heart of our commitment to help people improve life for themselves and their families.
"Children from working households have better life chances and under Universal Credit people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer than the old system."
He added: "The truth is that most of us, again I suspect in this House, know that it's very unlikely to be achieved because what we're asking is for our EU partners to engage in the bending of the rules of a legal order and that is not something which can be readily obtained.
"It always seems to me that we started out on this negotiation on a major fallacy which is that the EU can somehow be twisted around through matters of self interest into entirely changing its nature, whereas it is an international treaty organisation underpinned by law."
Having visited Brussels on Monday, he said, it was "brought home to me so clearly that that is indeed the nature of the entity with which we're dealing".
"Unless we're realistic about that we can't hope to get a reasonable outcome to our negotiations."
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Justine Greening said: "I represent a very young constituency here in London.
"The bottom line is that looking ahead if Brexit doesn't work for young people in our country, in the end it will not be sustainable.
"When they take their place here they will seek to improve or undo what we've done and make it work for them.
"So we do absolutely have a duty in this House to look ahead and ensure that whatever we get is sustainable and works for them."
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"Not just on our economy but also how it has meant that a whole range of options has now been taken off the table by the United Kingdom Government when the European Union has made it very clear all options as far as they are concerned remain on the table."
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