Back to the drawing board?
Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May’s Government after the Prime Minister was handed a crushing defeat in the crunch vote on her Brexit deal.
The Labour leader said the confidence vote, which is expected at 7pm tomorrow, would allow the Commons to ‘give its verdict on the sheer incompetence of this Government’.
Mrs May is likely to win the no-confidence vote after the DUP and Tory Brexiteers pledged to back her. MPs overwhelmingly rejected the PM’s agreement by 432 votes to 202, the worst defeat suffered by a UK Government in more than 100 years. 118 Tories rebelled against their party to bring down the deal.
The Prime Minister is set to head back to Brussels in yet another attempt to secure concessions from the EU on the deal – something EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has repeatedly said he is not willing to do.
The will lay out her ‘Plan B’ on Monday in a motion that MPs will be able to amend, opening the door for a second referendum to be put to Parliament.
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