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Your support makes all the difference.MPs overwhelmingly rejected Theresa May’s divorce deal with the EU on Tuesday evening, plunging the Brexit process into chaos.
The defeat was widely expected, but the scale of the House of Commons’ vote – 432 votes against the government and 202 in support – was devastating for Ms May’s fragile leadership.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn put forward a confidence motion in the aftermath of the crushing loss, which made history as the biggest ever government defeat on the floor of the House of Commons.
The defeat by 230 votes easily beat the previous record of 166 votes, set in 1924 by the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald.
Parliament finally delivered its verdict on the prime minister’s withdrawal agreement after months of debate, as crowds of both Leave and Remain protesters gathered outside parliament to express their anger.
Ms May insisted she intended to stay on, setting out plans for talks with senior parliamentarians in the hope of finding “genuinely negotiable” solutions which she can take to Brussels.
But she faces another crucial vote on Wednesday after the Labour leader moved to table a formal motion of no confidence in her government.
Senior ministers reportedly told top business leaders that a motion to delay the Article 50 process of leaving the EU is being prepared in a conference call following the vote defeat.
To follow events as they unfolded, see our live coverage below:
Michael Gove is repeating the line that we have heard repeatedly in the last few days by Theresa May's allies, that voting down her Brexit deal could lead to no Brexit at all.
"We have face either a no-deal Brexit, with the short-term economic damage that would bring. Or worse, no Brexit at all," Mr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today.
Michael Gove on BBC Radio 4's Today:
I don't know whether or not we'll win, I'm not an astrologer.
Mr Gove believes that the Irish backstop is “a vice that we can tighten around the EU”.
Former education minister Nicky Morgan warned that the UK was not ready for a no-deal Brexit, claiming that "sliding out or crashing out" would be "deeply damaging".
She told Today: "I cannot believe that any responsible government or former minister would want to put the people of this country through that."
Mrs Morgan, who now chairs the Treasury Committee of backbench MPs, dismissed the idea that Mrs May should quit if she loses the vote on Tuesday night.
The Loughborough MP, who will vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal, said:
I cannot see that actually changing Prime Minister at this stage would do the country any good.
There are millions of people in this country watching Westminster and Parliament very anxiously today.
Many, many of them are supporting the PM's deal, not that it is perfect, ... but saying 'a deal is important to have, we would like you to support this deal'.
Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said that if she loses the meaningful vote, Theresa May should make a statement to the Commons "about what her plan B is".
He told Today that Labour was readying a vote of no confidence in the Government, but declined to say exactly when, adding: "The timing will be down to Jeremy Corbyn but he has already indicated that it will be soon."
Keir Starmer: 'If a General Election can't happen we'll press on with other options including the option of a public vote'
Sir Keir was asked about Labour support for a second referendum.
He reiterated the Labour position that it wanted the vote to be followed by a general election, adding:
In the end it comes down really to: is there going to be a general election? That is one option. Is there some form of deal that people can coalesce around or should there be a public vote or a second referendum?
"We need to create the space for that discussion about the credible alternatives.
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