Summary

  • MPs back Brexit bill by 498 votes to 114

  • Bill gives go-ahead for Article 50

  • White Paper on Brexit published

  • It sets out UK's Brexit talks strategy

  1. Which Labour MPs rebelled?published at 20:19 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

    In all, 47 Labour MPs voted against the bill. They were: 

    Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East)

    Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow)

    Graham Allen (Nottingham North)

    Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting)

    Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree)

    Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)

    Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West)

    Lyn Brown (West Ham)

    Chris Bryant (Rhondda)

    Karen Buck (Westminster North)

    Dawn Butler (Brent Central)

    Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth)

    Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)

    Ann Coffey (Stockport)

    Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark)

    Mary Creagh (Wakefield)

    Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)

    Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West)

    Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth)

    Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge)

    Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood)

    Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside)

    Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme)

    Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford)

    Mike Gapes (Ilford South)

    Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South)

    Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood)

    Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch)

    Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton)

    Peter Kyle (Hove)

    David Lammy (Tottenham)

    Rachael Maskell (York Central)

    Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East)

    Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North)

    Madeleine Moon (Bridgend)

    Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)

    Stephen Pound (Ealing North)

    Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall)

    Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn)

    Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith)

    Jeff Smith (Manchester Withington)

    Owen Smith (Pontypridd)

    Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central)

    Stephen Timms (East Ham)

    Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green)

    Alan Whitehead (Southampton Test)

    Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge)

  2. Adjournment debate on World Hijab Daypublished at 20:18 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

    House of Commons
    Parliament

    Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

    After all the dramatic votes, SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh opens the adjournment debate, which concerns World Hijab Day.

    "Hijab is an Arabic word meanign barrier or partition," she says, though it has a broader meaning in Islam.

    She insists that a woman wearing a hijab "absolutley should be a matter of choice".

  3. Labour splitpublished at 20:09 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  4. When MPs voted to back Article 50 billpublished at 20:09 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

    MPs argued for and against, then voted, by a majority of 384, to allow Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way.

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  5. Reports: Diane Abbott missed votepublished at 20:03 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  6. SNP MP: Tories back-slappingpublished at 20:03 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  7. Boris Johnson: History has been madepublished at 20:03 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  8. Who rebelled? Three Labour whips namedpublished at 19:57 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  9. Israel's Netanyahu 'to visit PM'published at 19:56 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  10. Speaker's endurance praisedpublished at 19:56 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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    John Bercow

    There is more loud disagreement on motions relating to the Trade Union Act but those divisions are deferred until a future date.

    Just before further business, Conservative MP Sir Gerald Howarth thanks Speaker John Bercow "for having sat in the chair for most of yesterday and today" and conducting "historic" proceedings.

    "The honourable gentleman is a gentleman," the Speaker replies.

  11. Watson: 47 Labour MPs rebelledpublished at 19:49 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  12. Tonight everything in politics 'changes for good'published at 19:48 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

    Analysis from BBC political editor

    Laura Kuenssberg
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    On a wet Wednesday, the debate didn't feel epoch-making, but think for a moment about what has just happened. 

    MPs, most of whom wanted to stay in the EU, have just agreed that we are off. 

    This time last year few in Westminster really thought that this would happen. The then prime minister's concern was persuading the rest of the EU to give him a better deal for the UK. 

    His close colleagues believed the chances of them losing, let alone the government dissolving over the referendum, were slim, if not quite zero. 

    Then tonight, his former colleagues are rubber stamping the decision of a narrow majority of the public, that changed everything in politics here for good. 

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  13. Programme motion passespublished at 19:47 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017
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    European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

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    Parliament

    MPs approve the programme motion by 329 votes to 112 - a majority of 217.

    This gives MPs three days of further debate on the bill, as the government wanted.

    If it passes those remaining stages, it will go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.

  14. A big majoritypublished at 19:47 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  15. Division on bill timetablepublished at 19:38 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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    The bill has passed with a majority of 384 - but there is one more vote to go.

    This is on the programme motion, which sets out the timetable for the next stages of the bill.

    If it passes, MPs will have three days next week for detailed consideration at committee stage, report stage and third reading - and the chance to propose amendments.

    Many MPs have argued that this is insufficient time.

  16. Labour whip and frontbencher 'rebel'published at 19:37 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  17. Who are they?published at 19:36 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  18. Brexit bill passes second readingpublished at 19:34 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017
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    The bill to trigger Article 50, enabling the UK leave the EU, clears its first hurdle in the Commons.

    MPs approve it at second reading by 498 votes to 114.

  19. Peston: Baby in the chamberpublished at 19:34 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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  20. Guardian political editor's sources reveal...published at 19:27 Greenwich Mean Time 1 February 2017

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