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Conservative Anna Soubry says some problems are being dealt with by the new Work and Pensions Secretary, Amber Rudd.

"It cannot be right that we live in a country, that if you are in work, you are relying on food banks," she says. The government is being "diverted because of Brexit".

Labour's Laura Smith says "no one party won the general election in 2017" even though the PM could get a functioning majority in the House of Commons.

She criticises the delays on the proposed reforms to social care promised by the government after the 2017 election.

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Former Brexit Secretary David Davis says he was one of the first people to call for the Attorney General's legal advice to be issued to MPs.

He says this was important as ministers at the dispatch box could intend to "put gloss" on things.

Did Cabinet ministers have enough time to read and digest Brexit papers? he is asked.

Mr Davis says: "My instinct is to say no."

He suggests that Cabinet members "had a good idea" of what they wanted before entering key meetings.

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By calling for a general election, Conservative Johnny Mercer says Jeremy Corbyn has shown that he views politics as "just a game".

"There are absolutely no answers coming from the Leader of the Opposition," he says, and he warns that the opposition wants a "hard-left programme" which has "destroyed" every country it has been practised in.

Labour's Liam Byrne says that the prime minister is charged with "the greatest political failure" of modern times. "That alone should be grounds for her to go," he says.

He wonders how the PM can command a majority in the House if she can't do it on Brexit.

Reality Check

There's been much discussion after last night's vote of whether it makes a no deal Brexit more likely?

At Prime Minister's Questions, Jeremy Corbyn asked Theresa May to rule out leaving the EU without a deal, but she would not.

Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris has been looking at some of the implications of a no-deal Brexit.

Here's his piece about what might happen at the Channel Ports.

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Conservative Helen Grant says she is "very confident" that a "great future" awaits the UK after it has left the EU, and "nations across the globe want to do business with us".

She says it is the "duty and responsibility" of Parliamentarians to break the "Brexit deadlock".

Labour's Ben Bradshaw says "we need to be honest with ourselves and the public" that even a general election would not solve the current crisis due to the current "mess" the Tories have made of Brexit.

"We need decisions and we need leadership," he says.

Paul Tyson, 33 from London emails: "The thing that disappoints me the most about Brexit is the complete lack of political leadership and bravery.

"I cannot remember a time when we had less talent in the House of Commons, or a time when people were so terrified of putting their head above the parapet.

"Jeremy Corbyn should be ashamed of his performance. Faced with the weakest, most incompetent government I can remember, his party has done little other than stand and watch."Naturally, his aim is to make sure Brexit is a disaster owned purely by the Tories, but how will this help the 'many' that he claims to represent?"

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Former Brexit secretary David Davis says there will be "quite visible anger" among the public if the UK has not left the EU or begun a transition process to withdraw by April.

"It will be really serious indeed," he says.

On the EU, Mr Davis suggests that the EU Commission, Berlin and Paris are the core influencers of the EU, noting that if they all agree on something "then that happens".

Mr Davis says the way in which this influence has been exercised has changed in recent years, with more confidence and assertiveness being shown by the Commission, but that this is accepted as the price to pay for being in the EU.

Daniel Smee in Croydon, Surrey tells the BBC:

"No one knew two years ago what Brexit truly meant - now we have a bit more of an idea.

"I, for one, would vote differently knowing what we now know!"

Generation X member, Steve King, has been in touch: "For 50 years, all domestic political decisions have been tested first for their affect on the baby boomers.

"Without another referendum, the baby boomers will have made their children and grandchildren poorer for the rest of their lives, without having to pay a penny themselves.

"Eventually the baby boomers will be seen to be the most spoiled and self-indulgent generation in this nation's history."

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Conservative George Freeman says the Conservatives have introduced a "welfare system there for those who need it", and adds that the government have "put in more" to the NHS since the last election than Labour were calling for in their manifesto.

Labour's Helen Jones says that the government has inflicted "damage" on her constituency. She accuses the PM of being "so narrow in outlook" that she tried to "appease the extremists on her own backbenches".

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BBC political editor

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"She is as inflexible as a dodo," one member of the government says of Theresa May - but that's not the only reason why she has been slow to compromise.

We all know that if you stretch an elastic band at both ends, eventually it snaps. And throughout her leadership, the PM has had Parliament as a whole pulling at one end, and the Eurosceptics in her party at the other.

It may be that in the next few days, the length of elastic finally can't cope with the tension anymore.

One formerly extremely loyal Tory MP said this morning: "Just at the moment when we need the maximum flexibility, we have the leader worst suited to it."

Read the full article

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"Labour is not a government in waiting, it is an opposition in hiding," says former minister Sam Gyimah.

He confirms he will support the prime minister in the vote tonight.

The DUP's Westminster Leader Nigel Dodds says he will be voting to support the government.

The DUP "want an orderly exit" from the EU but the backstop has been "fatal" to the agreement reached, he states. "The majority of Conservative members" not on the "government payroll" oppose the deal as well, he says.

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Comedian David Whitely, aka 'Sideman', said discussions around Brexit are failing to engage young people.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: "For young people it's like what are you saying? What're you saying to me?"

"You said 'drama', you said 'vote of no confidence'. These are terms and phrases where it's like 'What does that mean for my day to day life'?"

"I'm not saying there aren't ways that it will affect our day-to-day life... but what are they?

"I think there's a lack of information when it comes to young people and Brexit and why we should care about it."

On re-engaging young people with Brexit, he said: "Speaking as an influencer myself, I can't even think what the angle would be for getting people to revisit Brexit as a topic with the same intensity that you found the young community visiting it at first."

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Former Brexit secretary David Davis says the lack of a "worked up set of plans" for both possible referendum outcomes was "a disgrace".

He says he suspects they were told not to prepare, in case it got out during the referendum campaign that they were preparing for a Leave option.

"You can't blame the civil service for this, it is down to the political class who they rely on."

BBC Radio 5 live

BBC Radio 5 Live are are speaking to members of the public around the British Isles about their thoughts on the Brexit situation. Chloe Watmore, a Managing Director of a thermal insulation manufacturer from Chesterfield, imagines it as a business decision.

Join in the conversation - 85058 on text or @bbc5live, external on social media.

Steve Baker, a former Brexit minister, tells the BBC that he is backing the prime minister in the no confidence vote.

But he says possible attempts to compromise with opposition MPs by remaining in the EU customs union risked creating a split in the Conservative Party.

He feels that if the UK stays in a customs union it will be "under the control" of the European Union and commercial interests would be prejudiced.

"It would be a grave mistake," he says.