Theresa May loses crunch vote in another massive Brexit defeat
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered yet another massive Parliament defeat over Brexit when MPs overwhelmingly rejected her withdrawal agreement by 149 votes, leaving the March 29 deadline for the deal hanging in the balance.
MPs voted in the House of Commons against the terms of Britain's so-called divorce from the European Union (EU) by 391 to 242.
While this marked a smaller defeat than the 230-vote margin with which they rejected her deal back in January, it was a decisive rejection of government strategy even after May had claimed significant changes to the controversial Irish backstop clause had been achieved.
The British PM made a statement to the Commons soon after the bruising result was announced to confirm that Parliament will vote on a new motion on Wednesday to decide if the UK should leave the EU within the March 29 deadline without any deal in place.
In an unusual move, she revealed that all Conservative Party MPs will be given a free vote on the issue