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Jeremy Corbyn tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May as Prime Minister on Monday after she attempted to quash support for a Final Say referendum in a statement to MPs.
Mr Corbyn tabled the motion after the prime minister gave the date for a Commons showdown on her Brexit deal as January 14, which she had already postponed at the eleventh-hour in the face of a catastrophic defeat.
Ahead of announcing the no confidence motion at the end of Ms May’s statement in the Commons, Mr Corbyn said she had “led the country into a national crisis", and lost the support of her own cabinet.
Later, No 10 said they would not table a vote on Mr Corbyn's no confidence motion, describing the move as playing "silly games".
See below for the day's developments
There is a lot of chatter around this morning about the prospect of a second Brexit referendum, after the Sunday papers were full of reports that cabinet ministers are mulling the prospect.
It is interesting that when The Independent launched its Final Say referendum in July, a lot of people on both sides dismissed the idea. It is now at the top of the agenda.
Jon Stone, our Europe correspondent, has written a helpful explainer on the prospect:
Theresa May's official spokesman has told a Westminster briefing that there were "no plans" to stage an indicative vote on a range of Brexit options, but he did not definitively rule the option out.
He said that all cabinet ministers who have spoken publicly on Brexit in recent days had made clear their commitment to getting the PM's deal through parliament.
Talks by officials were continuing "at all levels" to seek further clarification and assurances on the terms of the existing deal - and particularly the nature of the proposed backstop - as agreed at the European Council last week, he said.
The spokesman added: "The PM is very clear that we will not be holding a second referendum."
Labour whips say there is also due to be a statement on the Taylor Review into modern working practices after the PM's statement.
No further meetings between the EU and the UK to discuss the Brexit deal are expected, the European Commission chief spokesman Margaritis Schinas has said.
He told a press conference in Brussels: "The deal that is on the table is the best and the only deal possible - we will not reopen it, it will not be renegotiated.
"As President Tusk said, the European Council has given the clarifications that were possible at this stage, so no further meetings with the United Kingdom are foreseen.
"On the EU side we have started the process of ratification and we will follow closely the ratification process in the United Kingdom."
He added that talk of a second referendum was an "internal" matter for the UK and that the commission has "absolutely no comment on it".
Here's a fuller take on the EU's position (spoiler - they don't want to open negotiations on the Brexit deal).
There was an interesting piece of language from Downing Street on the idea of an “indicative vote” in the House of Commons, political editor Joe Watts writes.
Theresa May has gone out of her way to rule out a second referendum in recent days, and a yes/no vote on her proposed deal before Christmas.
But when questioned about the indicative-vote plan championed by some of her cabinet members, her spokesman would only say there are “no plans” for them – which can sometimes mean there might be in the future.
The proposal would see MPs given a multiple choice vote on what they think should happen – second referendum, Norway, no-deal or May’s deal.
The final option would be dropped if MPs were acting after May’s deal had already been rejected by the Commons of course.
Some in her cabinet see it as a route to second referendum, whilst others see it as a way of garnering support for the PM’s strategy. Number 10 might even see it as a way of showing how hopelessly divided the Commons is.
Either way, Downing Street was still adamant this morning that the prime minister could secure “extra assurances” from the EU to get her deal through the House of Commons in the new year.
They apparently missed the press conference over in Brussels around the same time where the Commission’s spokesman said: “The EU Council has given the clarifications that were possible at this stage so no further meetings with the UK are foreseen.”
Boris Johnson, the ex-foreign secretary and May's long-time rival, has described the prospect of a new public vote as a "betrayal".
Writing in the Telegraph, he said: “They [the public] would know immediately that they were being asked to vote again simply because they had failed to give the ‘right’ answer last time.
"They would suspect, with good grounds, that it was all a gigantic plot, engineered by politicians, to overturn their verdict.
"A second referendum would provoke instant, deep and ineradicable feelings of betrayal.”
Labour is backing away from a new referendum – could enough of its MPs really end up supporting May’s Brexit deal, asks the Indy's John Rentoul.
Read his column here:
Interesting: SNP's Ian Blackford has put forward an emergency debate application to ask about the EU Council.
Pretty sharp splash on George Osborne's Evening Standard today.
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