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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Around a dozen Tory MPs who voted against Theresa May's deal in January have said they will back it tonight. Here are a few of their tweets...
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European Commission vice-president Jyrki Katainen has said if the deal is rejected this evening, the prospect of a "hard Brexit" moved closer and his advice was "fasten your seatbelt".
He told reporters in Strasbourg: "Depending on the vote in the Commons, we are either moving forward to orderly withdrawal or hard Brexit is closer again, more close than ever it has been.
"So, keep your hands on the wheel, look forward and fasten your seatbelt."
Tory MP Ben Bradley, who voted against the government in January to oppose the Brexit deal, has today said he will vote for the revised plans.
He told the Press Association: "We've got the legal text and the attorney general's advice which makes it clear that the risk has reduced for being tied to something permanently, but it is not totally gone.
"The deal doesn't fulfil everything we've asked for but we have to weigh things up with balance. To me, the reduced risk of being tied into something is preferable at this point to the ever increasing risk of delay or no Brexit at all.
"Parliament is determined to make this as difficult as possible and I'm now at the stage where if we are going to leave on the 29th the only way that's going to happen is with this deal. I don't like it but we are going to have to play the ball where it lies as we speak and just get things done.
"I really fear for what could happen. It seems as though this won't pass tonight, or tomorrow when parliament may have to extend Article 50, which my constituents won't be happy with.
"The best course of action now is to pass the deal and leave, then we can think about the long term relationship and live to fight another day."
Minister Tobias Ellwood said Tory Eurosceptics should support the latest version of the PM's deal.
"This has been a long journey. This is the mother of all parliaments and the mother of all votes. The clock is ticking down, and she [Theresa May] has provided some assurances.
"It's now turned more political than it has legal, where individuals are looking for ladders to climb down from the positions they have taken.
"The bottom line is, if we don't get this deal across the line then we head towards a lighter, softer Brexit or potentially no Brexit at all, and that must be the wake up call for any individual thinking of voting against the prime minister."
Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson is now speaking in the chamber on Theresa May's revised deal. He says he cannot accept the assertion that there is a minimal legal risk of being trapped in the backstop.
"Like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, they have sewed an apron of fig leaves," he says of the PM and her attorney general Geoffrey Cox.
He adds: "This deal has now reached the end of the road - if it is rejected tonight I hope it is put to bed."
Johnson adds the only route to leave with "self respect" is to leave on no-deal terms.
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