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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:
The government had indicated it could support three amendments. John Bercow has declined to call a vote on any of them.
It means MPs will not be allowed to vote on motions that would have demanded a time-limit on the Northern Ireland backstop - something No 10 hoped would give it fresh leverage to secure further concessions with Brussels.
Two of the amendments ministers might have backed would have done this, but neither was chosen by Mr Bercow.
Instead, MPs will vote on motions that insist the UK must be able to leave the backstop without the approval of the EU.
If any readers have questions about the amendments and what they mean, or any other issues relating to today's historic vote, tweet me here and I'll do my best to get back to you.
Geoffrey Cox, the attorney general, is opening the last day of the Brexit debate in the Commons.
He says of the government's Brexit deal:
"It settles the bills, it legally allows for the orderly completion of these thousands of continuing transactions, of judicial proceedings, accounting procedures, that otherwise would be thrown into a legal void.
"And it provides for a period of adjustment, for people and for businesses, of the next 21 months, extendable up to two years, to allow our businesses and our individual citizens to adapt to the new realities."
Asking MPs if they want to "opt for order or chaos", he tells critics:
"What are you playing at? What are you doing? You are not children in the playground, you are legislators."
STORY: MPs will be given a vote on the UK's "right to terminate" the Northern Ireland backstop without the EU's approval
Geoffrey Cox says any orderly exit from the EU requires a withdrawal agreement and that no alternative option being discussed would negate the need for a backstop.
He tells MPs:
"Whatever solution may be fashioned, if this motion were defeated and this deal defeated, this withdrawal agreement will have to return in much the same form with much the same content, and therefore there is no serious or credible objection that has been advanced by any party to the withdrawal agreement."
In the Commons chamber, government chief whip Julian Smith has just called his opposite number, Labour's Nick Brown, outside for a chat.
Seconds earlier Mr Smith had been deep in a whispered conversation with Theresa May...
Geoffrey Cox dismisses the amendment tabled by Tory backbencher Sir Edward Leigh, which says the UK should leave the backstop unilaterally if it becomes permanent.
The attorney general says the motion "is one that would, in my judgement, not be compatible with our international law obligations".
If passed, the motion "would likely not be seen by the European Union as ratification, and certainly would raise serious question marks over it", he adds.
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