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Theresa May says last night was the moment that she believed Jeremy Corbyn would reveal his Brexit alternative, "but nothing came".

She adds that Mr Corbyn has refused to answer the question on his position on the UK leaving the EU, whereas the Conservative party are clear that they want to fulfil the result of the referendum.

Theresa May says by tabling this motion of no confidence in the government, Jeremy Corbyn is suggesting he would be the better leader of this country. She questions how Mr Corbyn would have dealt with the events she has dealt with in the last 12 months, including the Russian spy poisoning.

Mr Corbyn has been a betrayal of everything the Labour party has stood for, she says.

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European newspapers and broadcasters have reacted with surprise to the scale, if not the fact, of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Commons defeat on her Brexit deal.

Although few are willing to predict what happens next, many expect a delay to the 29 March deadline for Britain to leave the European Union.

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Asked whether she is ruling out a customs union with the EU, the prime minister says she wants to deliver on what people voted for.

Veteran Conservative MP Ken Clarke says he has never heard anyone who voted for Brexit tell him that they were voting to leave the customs union, or that there should be trade barriers between the UK and Europe.

He says the PM is committed to keeping open borders with the EU, but points out: "There is nowhere in the world where two developed countries are able to have an open border unless they have a customs union."

Theresa May says people voted to ensure they have a good trading relationship with the EU, but others as well. The deal that was rejected by MPs would have delivered that.

She says she will speak to MPs from across the House to work out how to move forward.

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Veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett says if Theresa May wants to work on a deal and shift the vote of so many MPs, she needs to approach Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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Theresa May says she is confident the government will retain the confidence of the House, and after this is confirmed, she will set out how the government will go about future Brexit discussions.

She says last night the House "spoke clearly", and meetings with senior Parliamentarians across the House about Brexit will be the government's priority if they win the confidence vote this evening.

"The aim is to identify what would be required to secure the backing of the House," she adds, noting that if the talks "bear fruit", she will communicate these results with the EU.

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Conservative MP and former cabinet minister John Whittingdale says he will be supporting the government in the no confidence vote later.

Mr Whittingdale, a Leave supporter, was one of a number of Tory MPs to have submitted a letter of no confidence in Theresa May's leadership last year - which led to a vote which she won.

The Maldon MP tells 5 live: "I will be voting for the government this afternoon because of course I want a Conservative government to continue.

"I didn't vote for her [in the confidence vote on her leadership of the party] - but I respect the outcome of the vote which my party held in the same way that I respect the outcome of the referendum."

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Prime Minister Theresa May says a general election "would be the worst thing that we could do".

"It would deepen divisions when we need unity, it would bring chaos when we need certainty," she says, "a general election is simply not in the national interest."

Parliament must "finish the job" and deliver Brexit, she says, while an election would delay it.

The current situation would not change as a result of five weeks of general election campaigning, she says. An election is not guaranteed to deliver a parliamentary majority for either side.

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Asked if there is still time to leave the EU with a deal passed through Parliament, Justice Secretary David Gauke says: "It's still possible, but it is very tight. We don't have a lot of spare time, frankly.

"I think we've got days before we will start to run out of parliamentary time. I hope we can meet that timing."

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells a news conference that his country actually favours a united European Union.

"They say constantly that Russia is rubbing its hands with glee - this is not true," he says.

"We always said - long before the idea of Brexit took shape - that it is in our interests to have a united, strong, and most importantly independent European Union."

He says that Russia "will be ready to cooperate" with the EU and Britain if Brexit goes ahead.

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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said this morning that the UK "shouldn't be afraid" to leave the EU with no deal and trade under WTO terms.

Reality Check's Chris Morris has previously looked into what this would mean. You can read his analysis here.

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Theresa May is now responding to Labour's no confidence motion.

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Conservative MP Anna Soubry intervenes to ask why the Conservative party are still 6% ahead in the opinion polls, questioning whether it is because Jeremy Corbyn is "the most useless leader of the Opposition we have ever had".

Jeremy Corbyn says he looks forward to testing the public opinion in a general election, which he "truly believes" would be the best outcome for this country.

"The scale of the crisis means we need a government with a fresh mandate," he adds, noting that a general election would give a new start to Brexit negotiations.

He argues that a prime minister who is confident that she has a good Brexit deal and has prevented the country from injustices "should have nothing to fear."

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Jeremy Corbyn says: "[The prime minister] has wasted two years, recklessly ploughing on with her doomed strategy".

He says that "another month" was "wasted" by pulling the vote in December.

"What we have seen over the past three months is not stoical," he argues, saying Theresa May is governing for "narrow party interest" rather than "the public interest".

Conservative George Freeman asks when Mr Corbyn begins cross-party talks, will he campaign for Brexit as he does in the north, or campaign for remain as he does in the south east.

Mr Corbyn replies that "there has been no offer of all party talks". He adds that the PM has said "she might reach out to some members of the House".

Twenty-nine-year-old Aaron Ewers from Wales tweeted what the politicians need to do.

There are five hours to go, however...