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This evening MPs rejected Boris Johnson's plan for an early general election.

The government motion was backed by 299 to 70 - falling well short of the two-thirds majority needed under the Fixed-Term Parliament Act.

In response, the prime minister said he'd bring in a short bill tomorrow to try again for a 12 December election. Unlike tonight's attempt, this will only need to be backed by a simple majority of MPs to pass.

The bill is yet to be published, but a key argument will be over the proposed date.

Lib Dem and SNP MPs want an election on 9 December, which they say would prevent the prime minister's Brexit deal being approved before Parliament is dissolved.

However, No 10 says that date wouldn't leave enough time for the bill to pass through the Commons and the Lords.

Without a Commons majority, Mr Johnson will need the support of some opposition MPs tomorrow if the bill is to pass.

Negotiations between the two sides are reportedly continuing tonight.

Labour says it will study the details of the legislation but would only support an election once a no-deal Brexit had been taken off the table.

MPs will vote on the bill tomorrow. Join us then.

The BBC's Katya Adler says the EU will want to keep another extension up its sleeve come January.

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Ex-Labour MP Chris Leslie, from the Independent Group for Change, says he does not support an election and would rather have a further EU referendum.

This would give people a "specific way" to "make a decision on Brexit", whereas a general election is "just going to complicate this question," he adds.

He claims the numbers to support a "confirmatory public vote" on the PM's deal are "nearly there" - and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, who dismissed this earlier, "doesn't know for sure".

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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson says her party will be "looking carefully" at the government's bill for a 12 December election and discussing it with other parties.

She says she "remains open" to the government instead supporting her party's idea for a law specifying a 9 December poll date.

Asked what difference it would make to hold an election just a few days earlier, Ms Swinson says she is not prepared to give the PM any "wiggle room" to get his Brexit deal bill through Parliament.

Pressed that Downing Street has already said it will not bring the bill back, she says she "doesn't trust" either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn.

If MPs agree to vote for an early general election, how quickly could it take place?

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Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald says the government's decision not to bring its Withdrawal Agreement Bill back to the Commons is "bizarre".

He says the prime minister should be "coming back" with the bill so MPs can scrutinise it. He adds Labour wants to amend it, to "deal with all of the issues".

He says he does want a general election, but would "caution" against holding one on either 12 December or 9 December.

He says this would involve asking elderly people "to go out into the polling stations in the depths of winter," as well as the risk of students being "disenfranchised".

No 10 confirms the government will not try to bring the Withdrawal Agreement Bill back to the Commons.

It comes after the Lib Dems and SNP said they wouldn't vote for a December election tomorrow unless the prime minister committed to dropping the bill.

MPs have rejected the prime minister's call for an early election for the third time.

Find out how your MP voted tonight here.

PM Boris Johnson has lost a vote on his motion proposing a general election on 12 December.

Vicki Young
Chief Political Correspondent

There is more than one way to get to a general election. The way they have tried tonight is through the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and you need two thirds of MPs to back it.

Another way of getting to an election is to introduce a bill which says "forget about the Fixed-term Parliaments Act we're going to have an election on a certain date" and that date is then put in the bill.

That bill would then only require a simple majority.

Don't forget it means going through several stages in the House of Commons, crucially it also has to go through the House of Lords and their might be peers in the House of Lords who would also do what they could to try and block a general election.

So it's not an easy path.

The big question now is whether the SNP and the Lib Dems would go for the bill when it's brought forward tomorrow - if they supported it, it wouldn't matter what Labour would do as there would be enough MPs for it to pass.