PM’s Brexit deal; Historic humiliation rejected by huge margin

Theresa May’s deal has been crushed by an alliance of her critics who is bitterly divided. Tomorrow , an official vote of no confidence in her government being mounted by the Labour party a legal attempt to push the government to collapse into a general election. However, Mrs May is expected to win the confidence vote because neither Conservatives nor Democratic Unionist Party, which supports the prime minister in key votes, want a general election.

Pound rises after Brexit vote as the scale of her defeat took most by surprise. MPS overwhelmingly rejected PM’s Brexit plan by 432 votes to 202, a majority of 230 which was the biggest defeat for a government motion since 1918. some 118 out of 317 Conservative MPs voted against the deal.

Mrs May who has until Monday to say how she will proceed, announced immediate talks with senior MPs from all parties to try to identify genuinely negotiable changes to the deal that could win the backing of the Commons.

“No deal” means the UK would have failed to agree a withdrawal agreement and would also mean there would be no transition period after 29 March 2019 and EU laws would stop applying to the UK immediately.