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Ken Clarke, a veteran Conservative MP, says the UK and the EU need a settled new arrangement in place before it can leave. There is no point inflicting damage on all our economies by leaving on 29 March, he says.

Asked about the public who say "let's just leave", he replies: "I understand the public are fed up and exasperated and hold Parliament in contempt.

"It's the duty of Parliament to live in the real world. We're reversing 50 years and abandoning all our arrangements and Parliament has got to ask a lot of detailed questions."

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Guy Verhofstadt, who is also the European Parliament's chief Brexit spokesman, says that the UK "seems to be spinning out of control".

He calls for a compromise between the Conservatives and Labour, with an agreement between the two parties.

"I think that what is needed is that in British politics, Queen and country are put first instead of the party politics that are governing the UK politics and the House of Commons."

He adds that he does not want a "long" extension to Brexit talks, warning that the upcoming European Parliament elections could be "hijacked by the Brexiteers".

He says any extension should be based on a "clear opinion of the House of Commons for something".

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Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry tells BBC Radio 5 live that Labour will never vote for Theresa May's deal.

"There are many different choices, there is not just Theresa May’s deal," she adds.

"For the last four months she has been flogging a dead horse.

"This is not leadership."

She says if the UK ends up in a "logjam" then "we are going to have to go back to the people".

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Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he hopes he "won't be coming back here again" when the European Parliament reconvenes in July after upcoming elections.

"I'm sure many of you would share that sentiment", he adds to some applause.

He says Mr Barnier "pushed his luck too far" with the Brexit withdrawal treaty and "asked for too much".

He says the House of Commons could later "betray the Brexit vote" by voting against the idea of leaving on 29 March without a deal.

He says a "simple solution" to continued uncertainty would be for the EU to veto any UK request to extend Article 50 talks.

Mrs May told the party

Last night, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would once more put forward its own proposal for a deal and repeated his demand for a general election.

But notably, he didn't mention a second referendum.

Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd says the argument for another referendum is "still there".

But fellow Labour MP Owen Smith tweets that Mr Corbyn "doesn't want one", adding that: "We are all being played for fools".

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Another German MEP, Udo Bullman, who leads the main centre-left group in the assembly, calls on the House of Commons to "take a sensible decision".

He says there should be a cross-party solution among British MPs for the next steps.

His compatriot Hans-Olaf Henkel, a conservative MEP, says the "better solution" is to "keep Britain in the European Union".

He says the EU should "stop bashing London", adding that the EU should "help the Remainers in London to go for a second referendum".

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German Christian democrat MEP Manfred Weber, who leads the centre-right EPP group, says yesterday's vote has led to a "disaster".

Mr Weber is the group's candidate to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the next head of the European Commission later this year.

The EU, he adds, cannot "rescue Great Britain" and must prepare for a no-deal scenario.

He says there must be "reasonable arguments" for any extension to Article 50, and a "clarification of what they want to achieve".

In a series of tweets, the Times' Brussels correspondent Bruno Waterfield comments on the possibility of the EU granting the UK an extension.

He says extensions "short or long will have lots of conditions and must come with a plan".

"To sum it up: a very badly damaged May is going to have to persuade EU leaders on an extension. It is by no means a given. As MPs drop no deal Brexit, EU will do the opposite and step up the threat of no deal. It now has maximum leverage."

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German tabloid Bild says the PM's "fight was, at least for the time being, in vain, and so were the months-long negotiations with Brussels". It adds: "Only one thing is clear for now - Brexit is likely to be postponed."

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung journalist Jochen Buchsteiner writes: "For the second time, the British House of Commons has rejected May's Brexit deal with the EU. But the twice-rejected agreement could be resurrected again - there is no end in sight to misery."

France's Le Monde says: "Metaphorical or not, Theresa May's loss of voice on Tuesday symbolised the state of a country deemed pragmatic but remaining without a voice for failing to compromise with its neighbours."

Centre-right Le Figaro says the vote was "a new humiliation for Theresa May's deal". The paper noted that half the Conservative benches were empty for "what was supposed to be a historic debate".

"Now what? That is the big question," the Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblad asks. "If nothing happens, the UK will leave the EU on 29 March without a deal - a chaotic Brexit without any agreements. A disastrous scenario, many people think."

Spain's La Vanguardia says the PM "put on the best face and sang victory," a "titanic" effort from someone "as robotic and one-dimensional as her".

Victoria Derbyshire

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith asks some departing cabinet ministers as they leave their morning meeting: "Is there going to be another vote on Mrs May's deal?"

Silence.