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Brexit โ€“ what happens now?

Late on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May lost an MPsโ€™ vote on her Brexit deal by 230 votes โ€“ the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.

The defeat was not unexpected โ€“ but it is what comes now that is becoming unpredictable.

MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject Mrs Mayโ€™s Treaty and Declaration on Britainโ€™s exit from the EU on 29 March. While the opposition parties might have been expected to oppose the deal, many pro-Brexit MPs in Mrs Mayโ€™s own party felt her Treaty, which set out the terms of the departure left the UK too close to the EU. At the same time most pro-Remain Conservatives and all the opposition parties felt the Declaration, which holds out plans for the future, was far too vague.

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