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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The EU's chief Brexit negotiator is keeping a keen eye on proceedings in the House of Commons. He's just tweeted this
Conservative former minister Sir Edward Leigh tells MPs in the Commons: "I appeal to fellow Brexiteers - you may not like the deal, it's not perfect, but it delivers Brexit and let's go for it."
The state of the Brexit debate with 20 minutes to go: Theresa May's revised deal is described as a "polished turd" by the Conservative MP Steve Double. But it's the "best turd we've got" he says.
Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, is now speaking in the chamber as the debate on May's deal comes to a close. He says the deal is an "abject failure" and will not deliver frictionless trade.
Sir Keir says it is a "sorry outcome after two years of negotiations".
"I could not have possibly seen the scale of the calamity upon us now."
Worth looking at some of the biggest government defeats in parliamentary history before MPs start voting. This was put together before Theresa May broke records with her 230-vote defeat in January.
Tory former Cabinet minister Theresa Villiers said she would also vote against the deal.
She told the Press Association: "I voted against this deal two months ago because it was a bad deal, and it still is."
MPs have now started voting on the prime minister's deal. Expect the result in around 15 minutes.
BREAKING - the result are in. Theresa May has lost the vote by 391- 242
This a loss of 149 - the third biggest defeat on record.
Her deal was crushed by 230 votes in January - the biggest defeat in parliamentary history.
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