Brexit vote result – live: Boris Johnson suffers second humiliating defeat as MPs vote to block no deal but put May’s deal back on table on technicality

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Boris Johnson accuses Jeremy Corbyn of wanting to 'stop the election and stop the people from voting'

Boris Johnson‘s plan to call an early general election was rejected after his earlier bid to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table suffered a major blow.

The prime minister had called for a poll to be held on 15 October after legislation designed to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU on 31 October cleared the Commons on Tuesday.

But Labour and other opposition MPs refused to back the motion for a snap election, which needed a two-thirds majority in the Commons, while the risk of a no-deal exit remained.

The government failed to secure the support of two-thirds of MPs, with the Commons voting 298 to 56 – 136 short of the number needed.

Mr Johnson urged MPs to reflect on what he thinks is the “unsustainability of this position overnight and in the course of the next few days”.

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Key Points

• Boris Johnson swears in the Commons in first PMQs outing
• 21 Tory rebels have whip withdrawn
• Labour 'will vote' against PM's general election bid today
• Winston Churchill's grandson to stand down at next election after being sacked as Tory MP
• John Bercow accuses Sajid Javid of being 'unseemly' and 'out of order'
• PM's attempt to call early general election blocked as he fails to get majority
• Tory MP Michael Fallon to stand down at next election after 31 years
• Labour says it will back election once rebel bill gets Royal Assent

[4 September 2019 13:50 · Adam Forrest]

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has begun speaking.

The shadow chancellor has suggested the spending review was full of “meaningless platitudes” and should be sent back to No 10 strategist Dominic Cummings.

He also made a cutting reference to the prime minister’s recent row with his girlfriend – saying Boris Johnson is shouting at him and “the last time the member for Uxbridge shouted at someone they had to call the police”.

[4 September 2019 13:53 · Adam Forrest]

Labour now backing away from a snap general election?

[4 September 2019 13:59 · Adam Forrest]

[4 September 2019 14:08 · Adam Forrest]

Labour has accused the spending round of being nothing more than “grubby electioneering” by Boris Johnson’s right-hand man Dominic Cummings.

Earlier this afternoon rebel Tory MP Margot James spat out Cummings name as she reminded the prime minister that “advisers [should] advise”.

Zamira Rahim has taken a look at the growing pressure on the No 10 strategist.

[4 September 2019 14:23 · Adam Forrest]

Sajid Javid has been accused of failing to tackle complaints that thousands of people are suffering from the “brutal rollout” of Universal Credit benefits.

Campaign groups have warned that the five-week wait for the payment was causing hardship for families. Emma Revie, chief executive of the Trussell Trust, which runs hundreds of food banks across the country, said: “This spending review was a lost opportunity. As the country looks to the future, we need our government to put policy ahead of politics.

“It was particularly disappointing to see no action on the five-week wait for Universal Credit - we know this is pushing people to the doors of food banks.”

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Commons: “Does the Chancellor have any words for the thousands suffering from the brutal rollout of Universal Credit?

“Traditionally the spending review concentrates on department expenditure limits rather than social security, but there is no reason why the chancellor couldn’t have signalled the government’s intent - at least – to end the misery and hardship their policy is causing.”

[4 September 2019 14:28 · Adam Forrest]

Nicola Sturgeon also senses Labour is backing away from a snap election in mid-October.

[4 September 2019 14:34 · Adam Forrest]

Here’s our deputy political editor Rob Merrick on the big increase in spending on public services.

[4 September 2019 14:41 · Adam Forrest]

More snap election sass. SNP parliamentarians now adopting the “chicken” rhetoric used by Boris Johnson at PMQs. Will Labour take the bait? Or the feed, as it were.

[4 September 2019 14:50 · Adam Forrest]

Is the snap election still a possibility? Speak to different Labour figures and you’ll get different answers.

[4 September 2019 15:04 · Jon Sharman]

It was the cockney twang that did it. The wide vowels and the half-dropped H’s. The reminder, not that one was needed, that beneath his turban and behind his greying beard, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, born in Slough and now the town's MP, is as British as they come. “Mr Speaker,” he began. “If I decide to wear a turban, or you decide to wear a kippah or a skull cap, or she decides to wear a hijab or a burkha, does that mean it is open season for right honourable members of this house to make derogatory and divisive remarks about our appearance?”

Eyes were widening. Silence swept across the benches behind the prime minister like the blast radius from a nuclear explosion, writes Tom Peck.

Sitting by the prime minister’s side was the chancellor, Sajid Javid, the son of a bus driver. He, and everyone else, knew where they were about to be taken – and it wasn’t going to be a pleasant journey. And indeed it wasn’t.