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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Theresa May is now opening the Brexit debate - and she has almost completely lost her voice.
She says if this deal is not passed tonight, then Brexit could be "lost", or the country could end up with a no-deal scenario.
"The danger for those of us who want to have faith in the British public and deliver on their vote for Brexit, is that if this vote is not passed tonight, if this deal is not passed, then Brexit could be lost."
"Sufficient progress has not been achieved," the DUP says - as the prime minister is on her feet.
After the DUP announced they would not be supporting the deal, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry tweeted: "The government will not get their deal
through parliament tonight.
"The only question is, how big will the defeat be?"
Ramsay McDonald was defeated by 166 votes in the House of Commons in 1924. Theresa May crushed that record in January with a 230-vote loss over her Brexit deal - the biggest parliamentary defeat ever for a British government.
Unless a significant number of MPs switch to back her deal this evening, she could be on course for the second biggest defeat in parliament.
Jeremy Corbyn is now responding - he says the PM has failed to change "one single word" of the withdrawal agreement. He says the concessions gained from the EU only "reduce the risk" of being trapped in the backstop, rather than eliminate it entirely.
Here's the Labour leader's posts on social media from earlier.
The PM urged MPs to back the deal, saying: "It was not this House that decided it was time for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, it was the British people.
"It falls to us here to implement their decision, their desire for change, their demand for a better, more open, more successful future for our country.
"Today is the day that we can begin to build that future."
The PM added: "Let us show what this House can achieve when we come together, let us demonstrate what politics is for.
"Let us prove beyond all doubt we believe democracy comes before party, faction or personal ambition."
Corbyn added: "The unilateral statement is a weak Government trying to fool its own backbenchers because the EU has not even signed up to it."
He continued: "The Government is in real problems because they are trying to fool the people into somehow believing that somehow or other the deal she has offered is the only one that is available.
"It is not and they very well know that."
The European Research Group of Eurosceptics Tories will meet at 5pm to decide how to vote on Theresa May's deal.
It was widely expected that the group's MPs would vote against, but its chairman, Jacob Rees-Mogg, tells Sky News he has not fully made up his mind.
He says: "Unusually I haven’t yet made a decision...the only reason for voting for the deal is the fear that if the deal is voted down, that then we might not leave the EU. That would be the one thing that would change people’s minds, but I don’t think that is the case."
He says ERG members need to decide if Ms May's threat that Brexit may not happen if her deal is rejected is real or "phantom", adding: "My current view is that it is a phantom and it is safe to vote against her deal tonight"
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