Summary

  • Theresa May to publish her new Brexit plan to Parliament on 21 January

  • Full debate and key vote on that plan on 29 January

  • PM holding talks with MPs and urges people to "work constructively together"

  • Jeremy Corbyn refuses to take part unless the PM rules out a no-deal Brexit

  • Mrs May has held meetings with the Lib Dems, SNP and Plaid Cymru

  • Government paper suggests new EU referendum would take "in excess of a year"

  1. Countdown to confidence vote...published at 06:26 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    Theresa May signals to the Commons speakerImage source, Mark Duffy/UK Parliament

    As if leading her government to the heaviest defeat in Commons history on one day wasn't bad enough, Theresa May wakes up the next looking forward to the prospect of a no confidence vote with the potential remove her party from power.

    However, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled the motion, one of his top team says he's not confidence of success. Find out why in our look ahead to Wednesday's events in Parliament.

  2. EU wants to know what UK wantspublished at 06:04 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

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    Brexit: EU want to know what UK wants

    European leaders say Britain needs to clarify what sort of Brexit it can agree to after MPs rejected Theresa May's deal.

  3. How will the EU respond?published at 05:47 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    A placard reading 'Time For A EU Turn' is seen as protesters hold flags as they demonstrate on the day that MPs vote on Theresa May's Brexit dealImage source, Getty Images

    The BBC's Katya Adler assesses the EU's reaction to MPs rejecting Theresa May's Brexit deal.

  4. 'What do MPs actually want?'published at 05:33 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    A German counterpart is confused...

    Kai Whittaker, a member of the German parliament in Angela Merkel's CDU party, told the BBC that Tuesday's vote has left he and his colleagues "a little bit puzzled about what the British politicians actually want".

    "If parliament doesn't want to have no deal, and they don't want this deal, and they can't agree on what they actually want, then they have to give back the vote to the British people," he said.

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    My suggestion is they don't have a clue."

  5. MP delays C-section for Brexit votepublished at 04:38 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

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    Brexit: MP Tulip Siddiq delays C-section for Brexit vote

    Labour MP Tulip Siddiq called it "the most important vote in [her] lifetime".

  6. 'Heroic... magnificent... brave'published at 04:22 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    Mail columnist praises the PM

    The front pages might make grim reading for the prime minister but Peter Oborne, writing for the Daily Mail, external, says there is no questioning Theresa May's "tenacity, courage or guts".

    "Heroic, yes. Magnificent, certainly. Brave, beyond doubt," he says of her performance in the Commons. But he says she may yet become a victim of the "war" within her party that, he believes, is about to reach an "ugly conclusion".

    "And with so much at stake I don’t believe that Jacob Rees-Mogg or John Redwood can any longer stay in the same party as Michael Heseltine or Anna Soubry," he writes.

    Theresa May in the CommonsImage source, Mark Duffy / UK Parliament
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    Make no mistake, if Mrs May attempts to stay on and arbitrate between the party’s two factions, her Conservative foes will try to hunt her down like a wild animal."

    Mr Oborne continues: "In my view, her best chance of survival is to take sides with the Brexiteers. There were some indications last night that in a desperate attempt to rescue her premiership she was trying to do just that.

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    But does Mrs May really want to become their hostage?"

  7. Brexit: What happens next?published at 03:42 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

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    Brexit: What happens next?

    After a Commons defeat and vote of no confidence, where does Theresa May go with her Brexit plan? BBC political correspondent Chris Mason explains in two minutes.

    Brexit: What happens next?

    After a Commons defeat and vote of no confidence, where does Theresa May go with her Brexit plan?

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  8. Vote making waves abroadpublished at 03:29 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    It's not only in Brussels that politicians are reacting to the news from Westminster.

    A South Korean official has told the BBC's Laura Bicker its government will hold an inter-agency meeting later to discuss measures in response to Parliament's rejection of the deal.

    "The plan is to review treaties to modify which include the South Korea-EU FTA, and the direction of related consultations with Britain, according to ministers in Seoul," says our reporter.

    UK-South Korea talks on the issue were already scheduled for 23 January in London. More than 100 South Korean firms operate in Britain, with two-way trade totaling US$14.4bn, she adds.

  9. EU's Tusk suggests UK should cancel Brexitpublished at 03:24 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    Image shows Donald TuskImage source, Getty Images

    The European Council president sends a cryptic tweet after Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected. Read our round-up of reaction from across Europe.

  10. One view from the USpublished at 02:22 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    A Washington Post columnist writes...

    "This messy, unpopular deal, the most unpopular government policy that anybody can remember, was produced by a political class that turned out to be ignorant - about Europe, Europeans, trade arrangements, institutions - and arrogant, disdaining knowledge and expertise," argues Anne Applebaum, external.

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    It was the work of leaders who favored identity politics over economics, who preferred an undefined notion of 'sovereignty' to the real institutions that gave Britain influence and power, who believed in fantasies and scorned reality."

    "Time that could have been spent on other things - on debating defense (sic), or poverty, or clean beaches - has been wasted on a policy that won’t make Britain happier, wealthier or stronger. Instead, this long debate has produced confusion and gridlock. And after Tuesday’s vote, more of that is coming."

  11. Press digests 'historic humiliation' for Maypublished at 01:34 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    Composite image showing Guardian and Mirror front pages

    Want to know how newspapers reacted to the crushing defeat of Theresa May's Brexit deal? See our round-up of all the front pages in one place.

  12. Do Labour MPs think they can win?published at 01:26 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    Iain Watson
    Political correspondent

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    The opposition know that they are unlikely to be able to force an election but see Wednesday's vote as the start of a process. The shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner suggested the PM could face a series of confidence votes in the coming weeks."

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  13. May must 'think hard' about leadershippublished at 01:18 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    The Daily Telegraph

    "At the Dispatch Box, the prime minister gave the honest impression that she believes this deal is the only way to do Brexit, and by investing everything in it - running down the clock and issuing wild warnings of the dangers of no deal or no Brexit - she staked her entire credibility, her ability to govern even, on the fate of the agreement," the Daily Telegraph says in a scathing editorial, external.

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    Defeat is therefore a personal humiliation, although it has been paid for by more than just No 10. The country has been trapped in limbo while waiting for the inevitable."

    "The Government must regain the confidence of the House, rethink the agreement and go to the Europeans with a united front. Whether or not Mrs May leads that effort is a decision upon which she will now have to think very hard," the paper adds.

  14. How should the EU respond?published at 01:10 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    A former Brexit secretary has a few ideas...

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  15. Did May 'paint herself into a corner'?published at 01:04 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    One commentator suggests it might be the case

    In a piece examining decisions through the years that may have contributed to the result of Tuesday's vote, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland writes , externalthat some would suggest Theresa May was a victim of her own "bright red lines".

    "Once she had committed to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice, and once she accepted that there could be no hard border in Ireland, then she had all but written the withdrawal agreement that MPs rejected tonight," he writes.

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    The EU laws of physics dictated that there could be almost no other outcome."

  16. 'Normal rules don't seem to apply'published at 00:34 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    The view from a governance think tank

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  17. With friends like thesepublished at 00:14 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

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  18. Can May win concessions from Brussels?published at 00:04 Greenwich Mean Time 16 January 2019

    Press Association

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    Chancellor Philip Hammond and Business Secretary Greg Clark have used a private telephone call to tell business chiefs not to expect changes to the legal Brexit withdrawal text, but rather to the political declaration on future relations with the EU, according to Government sources."

    Brussels has repeatedly insisted that measures agreed in the Brexit text are not open for renegotiation, the UK news agency points out.

  19. Brexit vote Northern Ireland reaction round-uppublished at 23:57 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2019

    As Theresa May's Brexit deal is emphatically rejected by Parliament, BBC News NI looks at some of the reaction.

    Brexit vote reaction round-up

    As Theresa May's Brexit deal is emphatically rejected by Parliament, BBC News NI looks at some of the reaction.

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  20. More meaningful than the 'meaningful vote'?published at 23:36 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2019

    One MP thinks things are about to get more constructive

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