Britain was plunged into fresh crisis tonight as UK MPs crushed Theresa May's Brexit deal just 17 days before the country leaves the EU.The 149-vote majority is a final humiliation for the cold-ridden Conservative Party leader - who spent the final hours begging them to back her with a hoarse sore throat.
Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now But Jeremy Corbyn declared: "The prime minister has run out the clock - and the clock has run out on her. Perhaps now is time for a general election and the people can make their choice." Tonight's vote - 992 days after the EU referendum - prompts what Mrs May herself admitted would be a "crisis" and unravels two months of work in an instant.The Prime Minister was desperate to renegotiate her deal since it was defeated by a 230-vote majority in January.
A "joint instrument" would have let the UK to quit the backstop - if it could prove Brussels was trying to trap us inside indefinity. By contrast four independents voted for the deal - ex-Labour MPs Ian Austin and Frank Field, ex-Lib Dem Stephen Lloyd, and independent unionist Sylvia Hermon.The dam broke at 11am today when her own Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, admitted there were "no lawful means" of quitting the backstop without agreement.
DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds warned the UK could stay "trapped" in the Northern Ireland backstop.
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