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Prime Minister Theresa May has written a letter to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urging him to back her new Brexit deal, saying she has met the party's Brexit demands. Here is her letter in full:

Dear Jeremy

In your letter of 17 May, you noted that the talks between our teams to try to find a way to resolve the Brexit deadlock had been detailed and constructive and identified some areas where compromise was possible. I agree.

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You also said that Labour will "carefully consider any proposals that the government wishes to bring forward". Today I have set out the details of a new Brexit deal that I believe should be able to command support across the House and allow us to honour the result of the referendum, putting an end to this corrosive debate that is damaging our politics and allowing us to move on to discuss all the other issues which MPs, and those we are elected to represent, care about.

Back in February you wrote to me setting out the changes you would like to see to the deal that the government negotiated. I thought it would be useful to set out how what I outlined today measures up against those five tests.

You said Labour wanted "close alignment with the single market". We will seek to negotiate an agreement which includes dynamic alignment with those single market rules for goods and agri-food products that are relevant to checks at the border and include this commitment on the face of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB). As we discussed in the talks, a commitment to alignment on services would not be in the national interest in every area, nor would it necessarily buy the UK greater access unless we were prepared to stay in the single market with free movement, but we will consider the case for alignment with single market rules in particular services, including any proposed by Labour, where it would be in our national interest to do so.

You said Labour wanted "dynamic alignment on rights and protections". We will bring forward a Workers' Rights Bill to guarantee that workers' rights in the UK will be no less favourable in any scenario than rights in the EU and allow UK workers to enforce these rights in UK courts. We will require no less favourable protections as a negotiating objective for the future relationship. And we will use a joint committee procedure to ensure no less favourable protections in the unlikely event that we enter the Northern Ireland backstop.

On the environment, we will guarantee through the Environmental Bill that our withdrawal from the EU will not affect the level of environmental protection in the UK, establishing a new independent Office of Environmental Protection with the powers necessary to uphold the highest environmental standards and enforce compliance with these standards.

You said Labour wanted clear commitments on participation in UK agencies and funding programmes. We have committed to negotiate:

:: The fullest possible participation by the UK in relevant EU agencies, including the European Medicines Agency, the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Chemicals Agency in relation to the economic partnership; and Europol and Eurojust in relation to the security partnership;

:: Appropriate arrangements for cooperation between domestic UK bodies and other EU agencies, such as the European Environment Agency;

:: the deepest and broadest possible relationship between the UK and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM); and

:: participation by the UK in EU programmes where it is in the UK's and the EU' s mutual interest in areas such as science and innovation, culture and education, and overseas development.

We will legislate to require the House of Commons to approve the government's objectives for the next phase of the negotiations, of which these will form part.

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You said Labour wanted "unambiguous agreements on the detail of future security arrangements, including access to the European Arrest Warrant and vital shared databases". As you know, the government is committed to negotiating the fullest possible participation by the UK in EU tools and measures that protect citizens' security, either by participating directly or approximating their capabilities, including in relation to the surrender of suspected and convicted persons and access to important shared databases. In the talks, your team accepted that the text we negotiated in the Political Declaration (PD) is as far as the EU will go at this point, but there is no difference between us on what the UK's objectives should be.

You said Labour wanted a "permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union… that includes a UK say on future EU trade deals". The government's preferred policy combines the benefits of a customs union with an independent trade policy. This was one of the issues on which we were unable to reach agreement in the talks, although we did make some progress. If we are going to pass the WAB and deliver Brexit, we must resolve this issue. One possibility is the compromise that we discussed in the talks - namely that we should have a temporary customs union covering goods, including a UK say in relevant EU trade policy and the ability to review the arrangement such that a future government could change it in its preferred direction. The government will commit in law to let parliament decide this issue and to reflect the outcome of this process in legislation.

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Finally, you didn't mention in your letter of 6 February the issue of a second referendum. This was the other issue that we couldn't resolve in the talks. My views on this question are a matter of record, but there are MPs on both sides of the House, but particularly the opposition benches, who have made it clear that they will not support any deal unless it includes a second referendum. The government will therefore legislate to require a vote on whether to hold a second referendum to have taken place before the WAB can be ratified. If the House of Commons were to vote for a referendum, it would be requiring the government to make provisions for such a referendum - including legislation - if it wanted to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement.

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This new Brexit deal has been collectively agreed by the cabinet and, as set out above, includes proposals to entrench various commitments in domestic law and seek changes to the PD to give you confidence that it will hold for the remainder of this parliament at least. This would also ensure, as per your request, that MPs are not asked to vote on two documents they have previously rejected. We will legislate to require that the Commons must approve a revised PD before the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified.

I have shown today that I am willing to compromise to deliver Brexit for the British people. The WAB is our last chance to do so. I ask you to compromise too so that we can deliver what both our parties promised in our manifestos and restore faith in our politics.