Former Conservative cabinet minister Grant Shapps said: "I think the relentless logic is we are now - though people don't realise it yet - on the route towards an early general election.

"Because nothing else is going to sort out the maths in this parliament to sort out this Brexit mess that the country is in."

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Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson is winding up the debate on behalf of the Opposition.

"This is a crucial moment in our nation's history", he says, adding that he does not doubt that the prime minister is "motivated by a sense of public duty".

"But she has failed, and I'm afraid the failure is hers and hers alone."

If she carefully thought about the implications of last night's debate, she would have already resigned, he says. Throughout history prime ministers have tried their best and failed, but the prime minister is attempting to "defy the laws of mathematics".

"She has no majority for her flagship policy and no plan B," he continues, and the result yesterday was "not a mere flesh wound".

"She doesn't possess the necessary skills, the political skills, the empathy, the ability and most crucially the policy to lead this country."

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Theresa May has taken her position on the government front bench as the motion of no confidence debate draws to a close.

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Labour's Tom Watson is wrapping up the debate, on a motion of no confidence in the government.

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BBC Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas says the EU has indicated it might be willing to compromise more if the UK changes its non-negotiable "red lines".

But he says that very different signals are being sent from France and Germany.

"You have a slightly more pragmatic side in Berlin with Angela Merkel, driven a bit more by German industrial interests," he says.

"In Paris, you have President Macron - a much tougher line he's inclined to take with the UK. He said last night that the pressure now was really on the UK.

"Who holds the whip hand there? If anything the pragmatists have won up until now, but we will see as the pressure really goes on, who digs in most."

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Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, South Belfast Sinn Fein MLA, has urged the UK government to keep the backstop in order to avoid a hard border in Ireland.Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Sarah Brett, he said the British needed "to get their act together", because people living on both sides of the border did not want a return to "the division of the past".

“I have no doubt that a crash-out will lead to division and a hardening of the border in Ireland," he said. "But also, if we have the type of exit that the Brexiteers want… then that also will lead to the reversal of the progress we’ve made on peace and will lead to a hard border."

“Those of us that voted to remain here, the majority, from both communities, unionists and nationalists – that’s an uncommon thing here - the one item of clarity that’s given us great hope has been that Europe say they will not desert the Irish. That they will stand by the peace agreement.”Join the conversation - listen to BBC Radio 5 Live on BBC Sounds.

The Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has said the prime minister must "move away from her failed policy of red line negotiation".

Mr Drakeford, who spoke to the Theresa May late last evening, said: "The prime minister is going to have to show a greater degree of flexibility than has been characteristic of her so far.

"She's got to be prepared not simply to listen to what people have to say, but to accommodate her prospectus, to take account of those things and find a new centre of gravity - which I think is there to be found."

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After a meeting with Theresa May, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster says her party will support the government in tonight's vote.

She says: "These are critical times for the United Kingdom and we have indicated that first and foremost we will act in the national interest."

"Lessons will need to be learned from the vote in Parliament," she says, highlighting the need for a resolution to the issue of the Northern Ireland backstop.

Ms Foster says that her party will concentrate on "the real challenges ahead of us", adding: "We will have further engagements in the coming days."

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The DUP's Gregory Campbell says that he will be voting against the motion, as he "retains confidence in this government".

He says he wants to offer "a piece of critical advice" to the PM. He says that the Brexit negotiations "have not best served this United Kingdom".

If the PM goes back to the EU and refuses the backstop, then that would be a "reasonable deal", he says.

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Conservative MP Andrew Murrison, who chairs the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, has said the prime minister must deal with the "potentially unlimited" Irish border backstop if she is to get MPs on board with her exit plan.

"It's this backstop that she's got to focus on, all the rest is perfectly fine," he said.

Asked whether he thought it was a paradox to have a time-limited backstop, he said: "No, no, no."

"It's the principle of having something within an international agreement that has no end date or from which one party can't unilaterally withdraw," he said.

"That would be unprecedented in the history of international treaties relating to trade."

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Veteran Conservative MP and former chancellor Ken Clarke said of his colleague Theresa May: "I get on quite well with her, and at times her stubbornness was tremendous because I agree with her - so she was terrific in seeing off some of the things our colleagues wished to do.

"She's an intelligent woman, she's a sensible woman, she's tried her best to get this package that she had - which was mainly designed to keep the party together.

"If we're going out [of the EU], I think she realises she's got to get a package together that minimises the damage and gets us to the stage where we can negotiate long-term arrangements.

"Frankly, I don't see anybody on either side of the house who would be able to handle it any better than she is, given the extremely difficult nature of the problems and the shortage of time."

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5 Live reporter Danni Hewson spoke with Guy Poskett, who runs a carrot farm in the East Riding. He wants to avoid a no deal scenario, and wants the government to renegotiate a deal.

“I think it [the current situation] just leads to further uncertainty – it delays any possible investment in the business. You know, how can we invest in a business if we don’t know if we have access to the markets, if we don’t know if we have the workforce to do it? It stagnates us and a stagnated business is not a good place to be."

When asked how immigration controls might affect his business, Mr Poskett said: “No people, no business.”

“We’ve had migrant workers here for 15 or 20 years – that isn’t anything to do with Brexit, it’s just simply because we can’t find enough local people to meet the needs of the business.”

Keep up with the conversation on BBC Radio 5 Live, available live on BBC Sounds.

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Conservative MP Maria Miller says "legal clarifcation" on the backstop could keep Theresa May's deal on the table.

Ms Miller, who voted for the prime minister's deal, tells BBC News: "We shouldn't underestimate how many people would be persuaded to support the agreement as it is, if there was more clarification about both the handling of the Northern Ireland border and also the handling of the backstop, and whether or not it continues in perpetuity."

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Green MP Caroline Lucas says the situation is "a national calamity of the prime minister's own making".

She says the prime minister has cornered herself by triggering Article 50 too quickly and refusing to engage with opposition members over Brexit.

Ms Lucas adds that people voted for Brexit because people were fed up of the status quo, and under the Conservative government, the country has failed to be brought back together.

Ms Lucas says a 'People's Vote' can be the vehicle for an honest debate, and whoever is in Number 10 must be willing to put the issue of Brexit back to the people.

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Speaking about the prime minister, minister for women Victoria Atkins MP said: "You don't survive that long in politics and be as successful as she has been if you are not able to be flexible, to respond and to listen, which is precisely why she made the statement she did last night."

Asked if Brexit will see the end of the Tory party because there is no outcome which unites hugely different views on the EU, she said no, adding: "We're a broad church... I don't pretend this is easy but we'll find a way".