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Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Commons defeat after MPs voted down her approach to Brexit talks.

MPs voted by 303 to 258 - a majority of 45 - against a motion endorsing the government's negotiating strategy.

The defeat has no legal force and Downing Street said it would not change the PM's approach to talks with the EU.

But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Mrs May to "admit her Brexit strategy has failed" and to come forward with a plan Parliament would support.

The defeat came after the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative MPs announced it had taken a "collective decision" to abstain, because backing the motion would have amounted to an endorsement of efforts to rule out a no-deal Brexit.

Mrs May has consistently rejected calls to rule out a no-deal Brexit, but Tory Brexiteer rebels believed the wording of what was meant to be a neutral government motion opened the door to that.

The motion reiterated support for the approach to Brexit backed by MPs in votes last month, one of which ruled out a no-deal Brexit.

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The voting figures showed it was not just hardline Brexiteers that failed to support the government - a number of Tory Remainers also declined to vote, as more than a fifth of the party in the Commons failed to back the government.

Five Conservative MPs - Brexiteers Peter Bone, Sir Christopher Chope, Philip Hollobone, and Anne Marie Morris, and the pro-Remain Sarah Wollaston - even voted with Labour against the motion.

Downing Street blamed Mr Corbyn for the defeat, saying he had "yet again put partisan considerations ahead of the national interest" by voting against the government's motion.

A No 10 spokesman said the PM would continue to seek legally-binding changes to the controversial Irish backstop, as MPs had instructed her to do in a Commons vote on 29 January.

"While we didn't secure the support of the Commons this evening, the prime minister continues to believe, and the debate itself indicated, that far from objecting to securing changes to the backstop that will allow us to leave with a deal, there was a concern from some Conservative colleagues about taking no deal off the table at this stage," he added.

Plasters lose their stick, revealing the hurt underneath. And the fragile patch that was covering the Tory truce has been well and truly torn.

Just when Theresa May wanted to show the European Union that she could hold her party together to win, she lost.

And at home the prime minister has been shown in no uncertain terms that she simply can't count on the factions in her party to come through for her.

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Downing Street had earlier warned that defeat could damage the prime minister's negotiating position, as she seeks to make changes to the controversial backstop "insurance policy" in her deal to avoid customs checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

ERG deputy chairman Steve Baker told BBC News the group still supported efforts to get "alternative arrangements" to replace the controversial Irish backstop plan, describing Mrs May's defeat as a "storm in a teacup".

Image caption Jeremy Corbyn: 'This can't go on'

But business minister Richard Harrington said ERG members should join former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's new Brexit party, telling them: "In my view you're not Conservatives."

In an interview with The House magazine, he urged ministers opposed to a hard Brexit not to "give in" to the ERG by resigning.

He also said he was "disappointed" that Mrs May had not made a statement to the Commons today, and given MPs an outline of a revised deal to vote on.

"We're now told it will be in another two weeks' time so, being very conscious of the damage that not ruling out a hard Brexit is having on business and industry, I'm concerned that it's going to drag on.

"What concerns me most is there is now talk that there won't be a final decision until the next EU Council on 21 March which, as far as business is concerned, is completely unacceptable."

Going nowhere fast?

By BBC Europe editor Katya Adler

EU leaders still believe this is not the time to budge.

They see the UK arguing, debating and negotiating with itself again - as it has done so often during the Brexit process - rather than engaging with Brussels.

As a result of all this, the new round of EU-UK negotiations are going nowhere fast.

"Window-dressing" is how one senior EU figure described the talks to me - with each side simply repeating their red lines to the other.

So, the current favourite prediction in Brussels is that things will only be resolved in March.

Read Katya's blog

Commenting on Mrs May's latest defeat, Jeremy Corbyn said: "Two weeks ago, the prime minister told Parliament that her new approach could 'secure a substantial and sustainable majority' in Parliament.

"However, tonight's vote has proved that there is no majority for the prime minister's course of action.

"This can't go on. The government can't keep ignoring Parliament or ploughing on towards 29 March without a coherent plan."

He added that the PM needed to admit her strategy had failed "and come back with a proposal that can truly command majority support in Parliament".

Pro-EU Conservative MP Anna Soubry said: "The prime minister has been dealt yet another body blow. This is really serious stuff.

"What is happening is a profound lack of leadership from the very top of government."

She said it was "chilling" that ministers were still keeping no-deal on the table when they had seen economic analysis showing that it would be "absolutely disastrous" for the country.

"What an absolute fiasco this is," she added, blaming a "lack of leadership in both of our broken parties".

Mrs May has promised MPs a final, decisive vote on her Brexit deal with the EU when she has secured the changes to it that she believes MPs want to see.

She believes she can secure a Commons majority for the deal if she can get legally binding changes to the backstop clause - something the EU has consistently ruled out.

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A Labour amendment calling for the final, meaningful vote to be held before 27 February was earlier defeated by 16 votes.

An SNP amendment, backed by the Liberal Democrats and calling for Britain's departure from the EU on 29 March to be delayed by three months, was defeated by 93 votes to 315 after most Labour MPs abstained.

Anna Soubry withdrew an amendment calling on the government to publish the latest cabinet briefing on the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit after ministers agreed to meet her and publish relevant documents. Ms Soubry said she would table it again on 27 February if ministers did not keep to their promise.

Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay had pledged to call the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier after the vote to discuss the result. The two men are set to resume talks in Brussels early next week.</s>LONDON — Theresa May faces a Commons defeat on Thursday if Eurosceptic MPs carry out their latest threat against the prime minister to thwart her Brexit plans.

MPs will vote this afternoon on what was supposed to be a straightforward motion endorsing the prime minister's Brexit strategy, which won a majority in the Commons in January.

However, the European Research Group of Brexit-supporting Tory MPs is unhappy with the wording of the motion, which states that parliament "reiterates its support for the approach to leaving the EU expressed by this House on 29 January."

The problem is that MPs voted that day, not only for a motion stating that the backstop must be replaced by "alternative arrangements," but also for a motion tabled by Conservative MP Caroline Spelman saying that no deal must be prevented.

One ERG member told Business Insider: "We need to make sure the motion is more neutral before supporting it as Spelman is referred to in the motion which we disagree with, so rather than "welcomes" it needs to say "notes discussions ongoing.""

If the ERG — which can count up to 60 votes — decides to vote against the motion on those grounds, it means the prime minister will suffer another humiliating defeat on what should have been an easy win.

Trade secretary Liam Fox warned on Thursday morning: "Our European partners will be watching our debate and listening today to see if they get the impression that if they were to make those concessions Parliament would definitely deliver."

"There's a danger that we send the wrong signals."

This afternoon's vote is non-binding, unlike the House of Commons defeat on her Brexit deal last month, which was the biggest in modern British history.

However, it would weaken the hand of the prime minister who is trying to demonstrate a united domestic front to Brussels in an attempt to renegotiate parts of her deal.

The news comes as reports emerged that Remain-supporting ministers are once again planning to seize control of the Brexit process by the end of February. The long-awaited rebellion from Remain-supporting ministers could finally happen on February 27, the FT reported.

Backbench MPs including Labour's Yvette Cooper and Conservative Oliver Letwin are planning to table an amendment which would seek to take no deal off the table and put the next stages of Brexit in parliament's hand, rather than Downing Street's.

The prime minister's aides have reportedly conceded that there is a good chance that Cabinet ministers will quit in order to support the initiative.</s>British prime minister Theresa May has been defeated over her Brexit plan B on Thursday.

Asked to “reiterate its support for the approach to leaving the EU” expressed by the House of Commons on January 29th, it voted 303 against the motion, tabled by the government.

The prime minister was not present for the vote.

She had been seeking MPs’ backing for her approach to renegotiating her withdrawal agreement with the EU after the House of Commons emphatically rejected it last month.

Although Mrs May is seeking to finalise a revised Brexit deal with the EU, she has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK crashing out of the bloc without an agreement.

But Eurosceptic Conservative MPs are angry that a government motion about Mrs May’s strategy that they are being asked to approve on Thursday “welcomes” recent votes in parliament, including one rejecting a no-deal Brexit.

Many Eurosceptics argue that a no-deal option is necessary as a negotiating tactic with Brussels.

“It makes sense that we keep no deal on the table, because we know the history of the EU that they do make concessions at the last moment,” said Shailesh Vara, who resigned as a minister in protest at Brexit policy. “We need to hold our nerve.”

Some members of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory MPs, led by Jacob Rees-Mogg, are now expected to abstain in the vote on Thursday, which could result in the government motion being rejected, and thereby undermine Mrs May’s credibility with Brussels.

Adding to the prime minister’s difficulties, Europhile Conservative MPs criticised Brexit secretary Steve Barclay after he said that the UK could leave the EU without a deal on March 29 despite parliament having voted against such a possibility.

Caroline Spelman, the Conservative MP who spearheaded the Commons vote last month against leaving without a deal, suggested that the government was “contemptuous” of the Commons.

MPs were asked to vote up to four times on Thursday. Three amendments to the government motion have been selected for debate: one by Labour, which seeks to force the government to give MPs a further vote on Mrs May’s strategy on February 27th; another by the Scottish National party, calling for steps to revoke Brexit; and a third by Europhile MPs, ordering the release of the government’s no-deal assessments.

This third amendment, led by the Conservative Anna Soubry and Labour’s Chuka Umunna, was later withdrawn.

Mr Barclay tried to assuage Eurosceptic Tories in his speech at the start of the Commons debate on Thursday. “We do need as a parliament to hold our nerve, and we do need to send a clear signal to those in the European Union with whom we’re discussing this deal,” he said.

Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said Mr Barclay was “all over the place on all of the important issues”, and accused Mrs May of “running down the clock, hoping to get to March or even the end of March” before presenting MPs with a choice of her withdrawal agreement or a no-deal Brexit. – Financial Times</s>Jacob Rees-Mogg, chairman of the Eurosceptic Tory European Research Group (ERG), emphasised that the voting taking place in the House of Commons regarding Theresa May’s motion and a handful of amendments. BBC’s Politics Live host Andrew Neil read out the Government’s motion which said: ”That this House reiterates its support for the approach to leaving the EU expressed by this House on 29 January 2019. In response, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “Frankly today is not important if today were important Rachel and I would be in the chamber of the House of Commons not in this studio.

“If it were a really important day we would be in the House of Commons. The Politics Live host then queried why Mr Rees-Mogg would not let Theresa May’s motion go. He added why MPs don’t show Brussels that the House of Commons is capable of behaving reasonably regarding motions that don’t have any real impacts.

Mr Neil then questioned how Mr Rees-Mogg was going to tell ERG members to vote on the motion. The ERG leader responded: “I’m going to tell them that this motion does not really matter. “So then you have a choice. “Do you wish to vote for it, do you wish to abstain, do you feel that the bit that I have referred to earlier as more important.

“I’m not ready to say what I will recommend. “Because it is a courtesy to my members that I should tell them first.” Theresa May’s main motion was voted down by a majority of 54. An estimated 30 members of the ERG decided to abstain from the vote showing diminishing support for the Prime Minister. Theresa May now faces an uphill struggle in going back to Brussels with European leaders expected to push her into accepting the support of Jeremy Corbyn.</s>Theresa May has continuously remained optimistic on a breakthrough in Brexit talks with the EU despite the bloc's seemingly unwavering position. Theresa May addressed the House of Commons today regarding another vote on her Brexit deal and spoke to MPs for over three hours on the details. Brexiteer Bill Cash said: “Theresa May is facing intransigence both from the undemocratic EU and from MPs who voted for the referendum act, the notification of withdrawal act itself and the appeal of the 1972 act.

Will Theresa May walk away from the Brexit negotiations

“And are now trying to reverse all of this with their own votes.

“Theresa May has not signed the withdrawal agreement which itself has undemocratic and unconstitutional features including the backstop and Article 4 which removes control over our law making.

“Will she therefore, if this undemocratic intransigence continues, walk away from the negotiations.”

Theresa May then responded: “Obviously what we are doing now is working with the European Union to achieve what Parliament has said it wants to see achieved.</s>Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a defeat on her Brexit strategy on Thursday that undermined her pledge to European Union leaders to get her divorce deal approved if they grant her concessions.

In a show of muscle, hardline Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party decided to abstain, handing her an embarrassing, albeit symbolic, defeat as she tries to renegotiate her deal with the EU.

While it will not deter May from trying to secure changes on the most contentious issue of the deal – the Irish “backstop” – the vote does show that her pro-Brexit lawmakers are a major obstacle to passing any agreement.

May was absent from the House of Commons for the debate and the outcome of the vote, which deepened the sense of political crisis over Britain’s departure, more than two years after voters opted to leave the bloc by a margin of 52 percent to 48.

The crunch vote is now expected to come on Feb. 27, when May is due to return to parliament – and lawmakers who fear leaving without a deal could try to seize control of Britain’s departure from the EU.

The latest twist in the two-year negotiation to leave the EU underlines the rifts in parliament over how, or even whether, Britain should leave the bloc, its biggest political and trade policy shift in more than 40 years.

It increases the possibility of Britain leaving without a deal, a nightmare scenario for many businesses, but also of Brexit being delayed or potentially never happening at all.

May’s spokesman said she still believed parliament wanted her to keep pressing for changes to the Brexit deal: “The government will continue to pursue this with the EU to ensure we leave on time on 29th March.”

EU leaders, meanwhile, have repeatedly said there can be no substantive change to the legally binding withdrawal agreement containing the backstop, a guarantee that there can be no return of border controls between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU-member Ireland.

With trust in the prime minister at an all-time low, one Conservative pro-Brexit lawmaker said the government could no longer ignore eurosceptics’ views.

“While the vote might not be of substantive importance, what it does do is to tell the government that they really can’t take Brexiteers for granted,” the lawmaker said on condition of anonymity.

With many Conservative lawmakers abstaining, the government defeat on its motion reaffirming support for May’s strategy was a heavy one, at 303 votes to 258.

The pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG), several dozen strong, had said they would defy May unless she dispelled their concern that she might after all baulk at a no-deal exit.

Ministers were keen to shrug off the defeat.

ERG members say ruling out a no-deal Brexit would not only weaken Britain’s negotiating hand but also remove what, for many, is the desired end-point: the cleanest possible break.

But some Conservative and many opposition lawmakers accuse May of “running down the clock”, edging Britain closer to the exit date to try to force parliament into a choice between backing her deal or leaving without an agreement.

A majority of lawmakers agree with businesses, which say that outcome would be catastrophic for the world’s fifth largest economy: causing delays at ports, fracturing crucial international supply chains and hindering investment.

Opposition Labour lawmaker Alison McGovern said it was time to stop the clock on Brexit.

“In any normal circumstances, this would be general election territory. It is clear that the prime minister cannot easily command a majority in the House of Commons, and that is central to our system,” she told Reuters.</s>Theresa May suffered yet another humiliating defeat tonight in the latest Commons showdown over Brexit.

Eurosceptic Conservative MPs refused to support the Government as it sought Parliament’s backing to go back to Brussels and renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement that was rejected by MPs last month.

The latest plan, which called on MPs to rubber-stamp previous votes ordering the Government to win concessions from EU leaders on the Irish backstop and to avoid a no-deal Brexit, was defeated by 258 - 303.

Members of the backbench European Research Group had earlier threatened to vote down the motion as they said it effectively blocked a no-deal Brexit, undermining Britain’s negotiating position.

But the group’s deputy chairman Steve Baker later said there has been a “collective decision” to abstain.

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Speaking after the vote, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “Tonight’s vote shows there is no majority for the Prime Minister’s course of action in dealing with Brexit.

“Yet again her Government has been defeated. The Government cannot keep on ignoring parliament or ploughing on towards 29 March without a coherent plan.

“She cannot keep on just running down the clock and hoping that something will turn up.”

During a five hour Commons debate yesterday, ministers urged MPs to swing behind the latest Brexit strategy, warning that a defeat for the Prime Minister would send the “wrong signal” to Brussels.

The defeat will come as a fresh blow to Mrs May as she prepares to relaunch efforts to win compromises on the Withdrawal Agreement from EU leaders.

In response, a Downing Street spokesman said: “Jeremy Corbyn yet again put partisan considerations ahead of the national interest – and yet again, by voting against the Government’s motion, he is in effect voting to make no deal more likely.

“While we didn’t secure the support of the Commons this evening, the Prime Minister continues to believe, and the debate itself indicated, that far from objecting to securing changes to the backstop that will allow us to leave with a deal, there was a concern from some Conservative colleagues about taking no deal off the table at this stage.

“The motion on 29th January remains the only one the House of Commons has passed expressing what it does want – and that is legally binding changes to address concerns about the backstop. The Government will continue to pursue this with the EU to ensure we leave on time on 29th March.”</s>London, Feb 16 (IANS) British Prime Minister Theresa May is to return to Brussels within days to meet European Union (EU) officials in a bid to rescue her Brexit deal.

Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the House of Commons, said in a radio interview on Friday that May will go to Brussels in the coming days to continue negotiations, but no timetable was stated.

Referring to the Thursday night vote, when MPs were asked to re-endorse May’s Brexit deal, Leadsom said the defeat in the vote was more of a hiccup than a disaster, Xinhua news agency reported.

May’s proposed cross-channel excursion follows a humiliating defeat Thursday fuelled by a rebellion by 60 of her own Conservative MPs who voted against endorsing the EU deal she has already agreed.

May’s hope is that EU negotiators will present her with enough wriggle-room over the Northern Ireland border issue to win backing from lawmakers in a looming showdown.

Political commentators and some leading politicians are describing the expected showdown in the House of Commons on February 27 as a “high noon” for May, just four weeks before Britain’s planned departure from the bloc.

Former attorney-general Dominic Grieve said in the Times newspaper that a dozen or more government ministers could quit during the so-called high noon round of Brexit votes on February 27.

The resignations are being threatened if it appears likely that Britain faces crashing out of the EU without a deal, say observers.

In media interviews, Grieve said that if May failed to remove the threat of no deal, there could be resignations on a scale that might bring down the government.

May will present the latest version of her deal to MPs on February 27, but political experts say she is likely to face a number of amendments, including demanding a delay in Britain’s departure date, a guarantee that a no-deal Brexit will be ruled out, or calls for a second referendum or “people’s vote” on her deal.

Until now, the EU has insisted that there can be no changes to the so-called backstop, a measure designed to ensure there is no hard border on the island of Ireland in the event of no deal being agreed.

Ambassadors from EU member states met the Brexit Secretary in London Friday to brief them on Britain’s latest position.</s>
• Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Brexit defeat after the House of Commons on Thursday rejected a motion seeking endorsement for her Brexit plans.
• MPs voted 303 to 258 to reject the government’s motion after dozens of pro-Brexit MPs abstained.
• Some Brexit advocates argued that the motion would have effectively ruled out a no-deal Brexit.
• May had asked MPs to send a “clear message” to the European Union.
• It is the eighth time the government has lost a House of Commons vote on Brexit.

LONDON – Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Brexit defeat in the House of Commons after rebel Conservative MPs abandoned their support for her plans to break from the European Union.

The prime minister had asked MPs to send a “clear message” to the EU about their desire for “legally binding changes” to her Brexit deal, with the UK’s scheduled exit just weeks away.

But in another day of Westminster drama, MPs voted 303 to 258 on Thursday evening to reject the prime minister’s motion seeking endorsement for her plan to renegotiate the controversial backstop for Northern Ireland.

A majority of Conservative MPs in the pro-Brexit European Research Group abstained from the vote, which is what led May’s government to its eighth Brexit defeat in the House of Commons.

The prime minister’s opponents called on her to change course.

“Tonight’s vote shows there is no majority for the prime minister’s course of action on Brexit,” the Labour Party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, told MPs immediately following the vote.

“Yet again she has been defeated. The government cannot keep on ignoring parliament.”

David Lammy, a Labour MP who supports the anti-Brexit Best For Britain campaign, described the result as a “massacre for the government and a damning indictment of the Prime Minister’s Brexit plan.”

He added: “The Prime Minister has nowhere left to hide.

“Her threats to throw the country off a cliff edge if MPs do not vote for her deal will be exposed as deeply cynical by a leader more concerned with the future of her party than her country. She should now rule out no-deal and put her deal to a public vote with the option of remaining in the EU.”

Thursday’s vote wasn’t legally binding, but it had symbolic weight and puts even greater pressure on May to change her Brexit strategy.

The vote was originally expected to be a straightforward victory for the government as it sought a repeated endorsement for a motion previously passed by MPs two weeks ago.

But pro-Brexit MPs in the European Research Group abstained on the prime minister’s motion, as they believed it also endorsed a previous amendment that called on the government to rule out a no-deal Brexit.

Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay had insisted in the Commons that a no-deal Brexit was still possible. Conservative rebels accused the government of “doublethink,” however, after ministers refused to rewrite their motion.

“We’re now truly entering the world of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth,” Conservative MP Bill Cash told the Commons.

“In his book 1984, Orwell said doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and expecting both of them. This double motion is doublethink in action and I cannot possibly vote for it.”

Pro-Brexit MPs were split on whether to back the prime minister, with some members of the anti-EU European Research Group breaking to back May’s motion.

The result means the prime minister will return to Brussels later this month without the clear support from Parliament for a renegotiated deal.

It will also add to growing pressure on May to shift toward backing a customs union with the EU to win support from Labour and other opposition parties.</s>MPs will make another attempt to reach agreement about Brexit in a fresh series of votes on Wednesday, February 14.

And there was unexpected drama at Westminster as pro-Brexit Conservative MPs threatened to vote against Theresa May, risking another defeat for the Government - because they feared she was ruling out a “no deal” Brexit.

Meanwhile, MPs who oppose leaving the EU without a deal are keeping their powder dry until later in the month, when they will attempt to begin the process of delaying Brexit if no withdrawal agreement has been approved by Parliament.

Theresa May could face a rebellion from pro-Brexit Tories

Mrs May is to move a motion in the House of Commons saying that MPs welcome a statement she delivered on Tuesday.

This was not expected to be controversial. But Conservatives in the European Research Group (ERG), the Tory group that firmly backs Brexit, are objecting to a sentence in Mrs May’s motion that says the House of Commons “reiterates its support for the approach to leaving the EU expressed by this House on 29 January 2019”.

They point out that the Commons voted for two things on January 29 - to removed the “backstop” from the proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement, a decision they approve of, but also to rule out a “no-deal” Brexit.

ERG vice-chair Mark Francois told the BBC that this meant the group would not vote for the government motion. There are 50 MPs in the ERG, although they don’t always vote as a bloc.

In response, Number 10 insisted that the Government was not ruling out a no-deal Brexit.

Mrs May’s official spokesman told reporters at a Westminster media briefing: “No-deal is an eventuality we wish to avoid, but one we continue to plan for. Does no-deal remain on the table? The answer is yes.”

If the ERG really do refuse to vote for the Prime Minister's motion then the result is unpredictable, as Labour is likely to oppose it.

Labour wants to set Mrs May a deadline of February 27

A number of amendments to Mrs May’s motion have also been submitted, and these could provide an opportunity for MPs to influence the Brexit process.

A Labour amendment from party leader Jeremy Corbyn, backed by Shadow Cabinet members, would set the Government a deadline of February 27 to agree a new deal with the EU which could then be put to Parliament.

It follows suggestions that Mrs May might not put a deal to a vote until shortly before the UK is due to leave the EU on March 29.

Labour says this is a deliberate attempt to “run down the clock” and to “blackmail” MPs into voting for the deal, because at that stage it might appear that the only other option is a “no-deal” Brexit.

Mr Corbyn’s proposal is unlikely to be approved, as Conservative MPs will close ranks to vote against an official Labour amendment, probably joined by their allies in the DUP.

Some backbenchers want a big vote on all the Brexit options

Conservative MP Ken Clarke is proposing that MPs hold a vote in which they rank every Brexit option in order of preference.

Instead of the traditional House of Commons method of voting, which involves walking through corridors known as lobbies, MPs would vote on sheets of paper.

Any proposal supported by at least 50 MPs will be eligible to appear on the ballot. Examples could including backing Theresa May’s deal, leaving without a deal or holding a second referendum.

Others want the Government to reveal what a no-deal Brexit would mean for jobs

Conservative MP Anna Soubry and Labour MP Chuka Umunna are proposing an amendment calling on the Government to publish its most recent research about the effect of a no-deal Brexit on business and trade.

And there's a proposal for a second referendum

Other amendments that could be considered on February 14 include a proposal from Birmingham Labour MP Roger Godsiff for a second referendum giving the public three choices - to cancel Brexit, to leave with the Government’s deal or to leave with no deal.

Commons Speaker John Bercow will decide which amendments are debated and voted on.

There's a plan to delay Brexit if no deal can be approved

Another group of MPs, including Labour’s Yvette Cooper and Conservative Sir Oliver Letwin, have set out plans that could lead to Brexit being delayed, but this will be put forward for a vote on February 27.

This is backed by West Midlands MPs Jack Dromey (Lab Erdington) and Caroline Spelman (Con Meriden).

Their plan is to set Theresa May a deadline of March 13 to win Commons approval for a withdrawal agreement.

If she fails then the Prime Minister would have to make a choice between delaying Brexit or asking the permission of the House of Commons to go ahead with a no-deal Brexit. However, if she did this and the Commons refused to give its permission, she would be forced to ask the EU for a delay.

In practice, the proposal means Brexit will almost certainly be delayed if there is no deal agreed by March 13.

The initial vote by MPs on February 27 will be to decide whether to allocate time in Parliament to debate the plan. If they do so then Ms Cooper and Sir Oliver will propose legislation to put it into effect.
The House of Commons votes to reject British Prime Minister Theresa May's negotiating strategy with the EU, though this motion has no legal force.