Brexit news: MPs reject every single indicative vote option as Theresa May vows to quit to get her deal passed
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MPs have failed to unite around any Brexit strategy after a series of indicative votes revealed no majority in the Commons for any plan.
Attempts to break the Brexit impasse floundered when MPs rejected eight different options, including a fresh referendum, a customs union and a no-deal exit.
In a dramatic day in Westminster, Theresa May told Tory MPs she will resign before the next phase of Brexit talks, in an attempt to secure support for her deal.
Addressing the 1922 committee of backbench Conservatives, the prime minister said she “would not remain in post for the next phase of the negotiations”, making way for a successor once her Brexit deal has passed.
Senior Brexiteers including Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith signalled they would pivot to back the prime minister’s deal – but the DUP dealt Ms May a fresh blow by refusing to support her.
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Show all 10But it seems her offered sacrifice may have been in vain, as the Democratic Unionist Party announced it would not back a deal which “poses an unacceptable threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom”.
In a potentially fatal blow to Ms May’s chances, DUP leader Arlene Foster said the Northern Irish party “cannot sign up” to the deal because of its controversial “backstop” provisions.
Westminster leader Nigel Dodds made clear the party’s 10 MPs will vote against the deal if it is brought back for a third “meaningful vote”, declaring: “The DUP do not abstain on the Union.”
The decision leaves Ms May in need of the votes of large numbers of Labour MPs or rebel Tory Brexiteers, many of whom are expected to be strongly influenced by the DUP’s stance.
She has indicated she will only make a third attempt to pass the deal, following its overwhelming defeat by 230 votes in January and 149 in March, if she has a credible chance of success.
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Speaking outside his townhouse in Westminster, Jacob Rees-Mogg said he has not changed his opinion that Prime Minister Theresa May's deal is a bad deal.
I haven't changed my mind about the deal - it is still a bad deal and doesn't properly deliver Brexit. The risk is, if I don't back it, we don't leave the EU at all."
Mr Tusk criticised MEPs who told him that possible UK participation in forthcoming elections to the European Parliament if Britain sought a longer extension to Article 50 would be "harmful or inconvenient".
The European Council president told the European Parliament: "Let me be clear, such thinking is unacceptable.
"You cannot betray the six million people who signed the petition to revoke Article 50, the one million people who marched for a people's vote, or the increasing majority of people who want to remain in the European Union.
"They may feel that they are not sufficiently represented by their UK Parliament, but they must feel that they are represented by you in this chamber because they are Europeans."
Mr Rees-Mogg said the British public had been let down by MPs. He said the alternative Brexit votes scheduled for Wednesday were just about MPs trying to thwart Brexit.
We ought to be leaving on Friday at 11 o'clock with or without a deal but that's not the situation we find ourselves in.
They (MPs) didn't like the result, they thought the British people have got it wrong, that's what today is all about."
A number of Labour MPs reacted to Mr Gardiner's comments.
After he said the party could not support an amendment linking the Brexit deal to another referendum:
European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt attacked claims that the EU had tried to humiliate and punish the UK.
He told the European Parliament: "You know what the problem is? The problem of the humiliation and punishment is because of the mess in the Tory Party - there is the humiliation of the British people."
Almost 6 million people have signed the petition to revoke Article 50. Margaret Georgiadou, who set the petition up, has explained why she did so in The Independent:
Nigel Farage has likened the Brexit deal to the Treaty of Versailles that ultimately drove Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Speaking at the European Parliament, Mr Farage described the current Brexit situation as a "betrayal".
Michel Barnier has said it is up to the Britain to decide what happens next but irrespective, the Good Friday Agreement will continue to apply.
Theresa May could bring back her Brexit deal to the Commons this week amid signs growing numbers of Tory rebels are now ready to back it, a senior Cabinet minister has said.
Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom said there was a "real possibility" there would be sufficient support for the Government to stage a third "meaningful vote", either on Thursday or Friday.
She said ministers were continuing to talk to MPs - including those in the DUP, who prop up the Government at Westminster and whose votes may be crucial in determining the outcome.
Mrs Leadsom told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think that there is a real possibility that it does (come back).
"We are completely determined to make sure that we can get enough support to bring it back."
EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said the UK "can stay" in the EU and that "anything is possible"
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