Brexit vote result - LIVE : Theresa May offers Tory MPs free vote on no deal after her revised plan suffers second crushing defeat
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Your support makes all the difference.MPs have inflicted a devastating defeat on Theresa May's Brexit deal after last-minute assurances from the EU failed to convince Brexiteers and the DUP.
On a day of high drama in Westminster, parliament voted against the prime minister's blueprint by 149 votes.
Ahead of the Commons showdown, a hoarse Ms May desperately appealed to MPs to back her blueprint after she secured “legally binding” changes during an eleventh-hour trip to Strasbourg on Monday night.
But attorney general Geoffrey Cox dealt a significant blow to her efforts, issuing legal advice that said the UK could still be trapped in the Irish backstop, which is so despised by Tory Brexiteers.
The prime minister must now let MPs decide whether to rule out a no-deal Brexit and has been forced to allow her ministers to vote.
It means over the next 48 hours cross-party groups of MPs will probably table plans for delaying Brexit for different periods; for leaving on different terms; and for giving the British public a Final Say referendum.
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Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has described as "bollocks" a claim that he had been "told to find a way" to ensure legal validation of Theresa May's newly-negotiated arrangement with the EU.
The one-word response was given to Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, who had tweeted: "A Lawyer contact tells me that the legal world is aware that the Attorney General said NO last night to the validity of Mrs May's 'new EU deal'... he been told to go away and find a way to say YES: A cohort of lawyers has been summoned."
Paul Waugh, with an interesting piece of analysis, an executive editor at HuffPo, has this interesting piece of analysis about what Geoffrey Cox might say later:
Leave Means Leave vice-chairman Richard Tice said: "The new documents agreed by the Prime Minister and Mr Juncker should be ignored.
"The Prime Minister is conning us all. This agreement still means Northern Ireland would be treated differently to the rest of UK.
"This is still the worst deal in history, MPs should vote this terrible deal down, believe in Britain and Let's Go WTO."
Labour MP Owen Smith tweeted an image of the latest printed version of the Withdrawal Agreement alongside the one rejected by MPs in January.
He wrote: "The 'new' Withdrawal Agreement' is half the size of the 'old' one! Not a single word in it has changed... but they've pathetically altered the pagination to make it look different.
"The perfect symbol of Theresa May's contrick Brexit," he added.
Expectations that Geoffrey Cox's legal opinion will be delivered at 12.30 today:
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