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The British Parliament has voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, just weeks before the UK is due to exit the European Union.
MPs voted 432 to 202 to defeat the proposal.
Mrs May had called for politicians to back her deal or risk “letting the British people down” but many of her own MPs joined opposition parties to vote against it.
The massive defeat — the worst in Parliament since the 1920s — will mean further turmoil for British politics only 10 weeks before the country is due to leave the EU on March 29.
The result was widely expected but is still devastating for Mrs May, whose fragile leadership is now under siege as the Brexit process is plunged into chaos.
Immediately after the vote, Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister, calling the defeat “catastrophic” for the Government.
But Mrs May reiterated her commitment to seeing through Britain’s divorce from the EU, telling Parliament her Government would make a statement about the way forward by Monday.
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