Brexit vote: MPs vote by 308-297 to defeat Theresa May and accept Grieve amendment

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MPs vote by 308-297 to defeat Theresa May and accept Grieve amendment

Angry Brexiteers have attacked John Bercow for allowing MPs to vote on a controversial bid that forces Theresa May to produce a plan B within three days if her Brexit deal is rejected.

The cross-party Grieve amendment – passed by 308 votes to 297 – demands the government outline its next steps within three days if Ms May’s deal is defeated, rather than the 21 days plus seven sitting days currently permitted.

It follows an embarrassing defeat for the prime minister on Tuesday, after her government became the first since 1978 to lose a vote on the Finance Bill as MPs made a stand against a no-deal exit from the EU.

As it happened...

Key Points

• MPs vote to force May to present Brexit plan B within days if her deal is rejected
• PM on collision course with parliament over no-deal Brexit after Commons defeat
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• ... and ministers tell May to force through Brexit by blocking any election until after EU exit

[9 January 2019 16:30 · Ashley Cowburn]

Jeremy Hunt announces immediate policy in relation to rescuing victims of forced marriage - says will no longer be asked to take out a loan for their repatriation costs. It follows the practice being condemend last week.

[9 January 2019 16:52 · Ashley Cowburn]

[9 January 2019 17:11 · Ashley Cowburn]

Labour's Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has said an extension of Article 50 may now be inevitable. 

Speaking in the Commons he said: "There is a question of extension of Article 50 and that may well be inevitable now given the position that we are in, but of course we can only seek it because the other 27 have to agree."

But the Labour frontbencher questioned whether the EU would have any "appetite" to renegotiate even if Article 50 was extended.

He said: "I have to say and, with regret, I genuinely think that the way the Government has gone around the negotiations has undermined a lot of the goodwill that otherwise would have been there."

Sir Keir, on a no deal, added: "I actually genuinely think we can't do it on 29 March this year. It's simply not viable, for so many practical reasons."

[9 January 2019 17:38 · Ashley Cowburn]

[9 January 2019 18:16 · Benjamin Kentish]

Brexiteers are unimpressed by the government's latest attempt to win them over.

Steve Baker, a prominent member of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tories, says the government's decision to agree to MPs having a vote on whether or not to enter the backstop is "flimsy rubbish".

[9 January 2019 18:37 · Benjamin Kentish]

Theresa May has offered Brexiteer rebels a new compromise likely to anger the EU

[9 January 2019 18:51 · Benjamin Kentish]

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