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Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom says the result of the vote was "incredibly disappointing".

She says it shows "Jeremy Corbyn is just determined to stop Brexit at any cost".

"My real, real hope is that colleagues will reflect overnight" and not take away the prime minister's "negotiating hand", she says.

"If Parliament is determined to take no-deal off the table, there is nothing the EU will negotiate on."

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Conservative MP Mark Harper says he wants his colleagues to give Boris Johnson the chance to get a deal from the EU.

If the bill is passed tomorrow, it means the EU has no incentives to make any changes at all," he says.

"And we will never leave the European Union," he thinks.

Government sources have confirmed to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that all 21 Conservative rebels are having the whip removed.

Removing the whip effectively means expelling the MPs from the parliamentary party.

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Ken Clarke, one of the Tory rebels who faces losing the party whip, insists on BBC Newsnight that he is still a Conservative, but the party has changed.

He says "it’s been taken over by a rather knockabout character who has this bizarre 'crash-it-through' philosophy" and says the cabinet is "the most right-wing any Conservative Party has ever produced".

"They're not in control of events. The prime minister comes and talks complete rubbish to us."

If the bill passes the House of Commons, it then has to pass the House of Lords.

Newsnight political editor Nick Watt says pro-government peers have tabled 92 amendments just to the business motion.

He says opposition figures in the House of Lords are saying "we can beat them, if they are going to be tough we are going to be really tough".

He says the government does not have a majority in the House of Lords, but they are determined to used every procedural device to block this bill there.

Nicholas Watt
Political editor, BBC Newsnight

The defeat was slightly higher than expected.

Boris Johnson was getting some people on his side but that is a heavy defeat.

I spoke to one former minister - a Boris Johnson supporter - who said "it is just not sustainable".

"You cannot take the whip away from that many MPs and really run a credible government."

Jacob Rees-Mogg was accused of contemptuous behaviour for reclining across the seats in the Commons.

Labour's shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer says tonight's vote is "a hugely important step in stopping Boris Johnson's plan for a no-deal Brexit".

While the Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says: "I fear that we are rapidly headed towards a very dark place."

After criticism that the originally proposed date of 14 October would exclude religious Jews, because of a clash with the festival of Succot, the government has made a change.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says, external that if enough MPs back the motion for a general election, it will now be held a day later, on 15 October.

In his point of order the prime minister confirmed that the government would tonight table a motion under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act to hold an early general election.

The debate and vote on that motion could happen tomorrow evening if the opposition and rebels pass their bill.

MPs voted for the motion 328 - 301.

There were 21 Conservative rebels:

• Guto Bebb
• Richard Benyon
• Steve Brine
• Alistair Burt
• Greg Clark
• Ken Clarke
• David Gauke
• Justine Greening
• Dominic Grieve
• Sam Gyimah
• Philip Hammond
• Stephen Hammond
• Richard Harrington
• Margot James
• Oliver Letwin
• Anne Milton
• Caroline Nokes
• Antoinette Sandbach
• Nicholas Soames
• Rory Stewart
• Ed Vaizey

And two Labour rebels:

• Kate Hoey
• John Mann