Brexit vote
Breitbart
Members of Parliament have thrown out Theresa May’s contentious Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union in the long-awaited “meaningful vote” on the deal. The Prime Minister’s Brexit deal was crushed by a historic margin of 202 in favour to 432 against, paving the way for a vote of no-confidence in the Government by the Opposition, which Mrs May told MPs she would make time for on Wednesday, January 16th.
Independent
MPs overwhelmingly rejected Theresa May’s divorce deal with the EU on Tuesday evening, plunging the Brexit process into chaos. The defeat was widely expected, but the scale of the House of Commons’ vote – 432 votes against the government and 202 in support – was devastating for Ms May’s fragile leadership. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn put forward a confidence motion in the aftermath of the crushing loss, which made history as the biggest ever government defeat on the floor of the House of Commons
UKIP
Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement has been rejected in the House of Commons by a margin of 230. UKIP Leader Gerard Batten said, “This result is no surprise for anyone. With her agreement, Theresa May achieved what was thought to be impossible – the unity of Leavers and Remainers in opposition to her plan. Only Mrs May’s most ardent supporters could have supported it. “We now enter a deeply uncertain period as the political establishment continue their project of stopping Brexit.
What next?
Huffington Post
MPs could stage a series of ‘knock-out’ votes on Brexit under a radical new plan to stop the UK from crashing out of the EU without a deal, HuffPost UK can reveal. After the historic defeat of Theresa May’s proposals on Tuesday, cross-party moves are underway to effectively force the House of Commons to find a majority for an alternative way forward. Under a new amendment drafted by Welsh party Plaid Cymru, MPs would be asked to list their preference for a range of options including a Norway-style Brexit, a second referendum and remaining in the EU.
Times
Theresa May was under mounting pressure last night to delay Brexit after she suffered the largest Commons defeat in British political history. The prime minister offered cross-party talks after MPs rejected her deal by a majority of 230, with more than a third of Conservatives rebelling. With only 72 days to go before Britain leaves, however, Labour MPs demanded that she extend Article 50 to give time for a consensus to be found. Jeremy Corbyn warned Mrs May that she had reached the “end of the line” as he tabled a motion of no confidence in her government that will be voted on today.
Fox News
British Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered a seismic defeat. The House of Commons on Tuesday rejected her proposed withdrawal agreement with the European Union by a 230 vote margin. Among those voting against her: 118 rebel Conservative MPs who saw the deal as a weak-kneed surrender to the European Union. This is the biggest defeat suffered by a UK Prime Minister in a major vote in modern times.
Sun
THERESA May dared MPs to vote for a General Election last night after her Brexit deal suffered the worst defeat in British history. The PM asked Labour to call a confidence vote in the House of Commons after 432 MPs voted to kill off the withdrawal agreement with only 202 backing her. The crushing defeat – which saw 118 Tories turn against the PM – is the worst since the advent of full democracy and suggests Mrs May will never win enough support for her strategy.
Westmonster
The latest YouGov poll has exposed very little appetite for a second referendum, despite constant whinging by MPs in Westminster to the contrary. Just 8% support a second referendum as what they want the next move to be on Brexit. A further 28% back stopping Brexit and remaining. But 22% have No Deal as their first choice, along with 15% for Theresa May’s deal and another 9% wanting the British government to negotiate another deal. Canada+, for example? That means combined, 36% of Brits back options that could mean remaining in the European Union. But 46% are in favour of leaving, deal or No Deal. That’s a 10-point lead for a Brexit way forward.
Times
What will Theresa May do next? In the immediate aftermath of her defeat the prime minister announced that for the first time in the Brexit process she would work with MPs from other parties to try to identify “what would be required” to secure parliamentary backing for an alternative deal to leave the European Union. She added that if those meetings yielded ideas, the government would “explore them” with the EU.
Mail
Theresa May suffered the predicted humiliation in the Commons last night and must now face the unpredictable consequences. Following the showdown, the real question is what the Prime Minister wants to do after losing and whether or not she will be able to get her way. There is an almost unlimited number of possible scenarios of what might happen in the aftermath of last night’s defeat. Britain is currently due to leave the EU on March 29 – but tonight’s defeat could force a delay to the two year Article 50 process.
No confidence
Telegraph
Theresa May’s future rests in the balance after Jeremy Corbyn tabled a no-confidence motion on Tuesday night, just minutes after the Government suffered an unprecedented defeat over its Brexit deal. With MPs voting by 432 to 202 to reject the draft withdrawal agreement, Mr Corbyn raised a point of order requesting that a vote be held on Wednesday, after Prime Minister’s Questions. Speaking in the Commons, Mr Corbyn highlighted that the defeat was the largest inflicted on any Government since the 1920s, adding that Mrs May had “lost the confidence of this House and this country.”
Sky News
Theresa May has just over 12 hours to save her premiership, as she faces a vote of no confidence which, if successful, could topple the government. The prime minister will look to her own MPs to back her, after more than a third of them voted down her Brexit deal in the biggest Commons defeat in nearly a century. She tried to head off the bid to oust her by welcoming the no-confidence vote before it had even been tabled by Jeremy Corbyn. But the Labour leader’s bid will be debated for around six hours in the Commons on Wednesday, culminating in another dramatic vote at around 7pm.
ITV News
Theresa May is battling on two fronts as the Prime Minister fights to retain her grip on power while attempting to find a Brexit compromise that could command majority support in the Commons. Mrs May faces a vote of no confidence on Wednesday after suffering a massive parliamentary defeat over her controversial EU withdrawal agenda. Labour launched a bid to oust the Government after Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement was overwhelmingly rejected by 432 votes to 202. Despite the humiliating defeat, Government sources remained optimistic about seeing off the Labour challenge after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
BBC News
Theresa May’s government faces a vote of no confidence later after MPs rejected the PM’s Brexit deal. Labour launched the bid to trigger a general election after the deal setting out the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU was rejected by 230 votes. However, one senior party figure has suggested it is unlikely to succeed, with Northern Ireland’s DUP and Tory rebels saying they will back the PM. The confidence vote is expected to be held at about 19:00 GMT. Mrs May has told MPs she will return to the Commons with an alternative plan next week, provided she survives the confidence vote
Guardian
Labour tonight threatened to bring a no confidence vote in the government “again and again and again”. But her government is expected to win the vote – and avoid a general election – because her DUP allies will back her thanks to the £1.5bn bung she handed the party in 2017. Fortunately for Labour the party can call unlimited no confidence votes – a prospect Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman refused to rule out.
Express
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in the Government after the Brexit deal was defeated tonight, with the hope of triggering a general election. But will there be a snap election? Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was rejected tonight, despite getting backing from the European Union. The vote could even be one of the largest defeats in Commons history. But Mrs May has made it clear she won’t back away from Brexit in response.
Times
Labour could table multiple votes of no confidence if it fails to trigger a general election today. Senior party sources said last night that they would make a series of attempts to oust Theresa May’s government. One said: “This is not about one vote of no confidence in the government, it is about a sustained campaign to show it has no majority.” Jeremy Corbyn’s tactic risks a row with MPs who want to clarify the party’s position on a second referendum.
Mail
Theresa May is set to cling on to 10 Downing Street in a confidence vote today, after her Brexit deal was crushed in the worst ever Commons defeat for a sitting government. An extraordinary 118 Tory rebels, more than a third of the parliamentary party, joined forces with Labour to sink Mrs May’s withdrawal agreement by 432 votes to 202 – a majority of 230 – on a dramatic day at Westminster. Moments after the result was announced Jeremy Corbyn announced he would table a no-confidence motion, which MPs will vote on tonight, in a bid to force a general election.
Independent
Jeremy Corbyn has launched a bid to topple Theresa May in the aftermath of the prime minister’s Brexit deal being rejected in a historic Commons defeat. Immediately after the vote, the Labour leader moved to table a formal motion of no confidence in Ms May’s government, claiming it would allow MPs to give their “verdict on the sheer incompetence of this government”.
Boris
Mail
Boris Johnson last night insisted the Brexit deal can be renegotiated without delaying Britain’s departure from the bloc. The former foreign secretary said he did not ‘rejoice’ in the massive defeat suffered by Theresa May, but demanded that she ditches the Irish border backstop and takes a ‘fresh approach’. He dismissed the idea that would mean extending the Article 50 process, which has just 10 weeks left to run, saying most of the other terms were ‘fine’.
Sun
BORIS Johnson BACKED Theresa May last night after her humiliating Brexit defeat – but only because he fears a Jeremy Corbyn government. Mr Johnson said he would support the Prime Minister when she faces a vote of no confidence today. The arch Brexiteer told Sky News: “I will certainly vote for her and for the Conservative government in the division lobbies because one thing I do not want is Jeremy Corbyn taking over as our Prime Minister.” He added that no-deal was “not at all” off the table, saying: “We should not only be keeping the good bits of the deal, getting rid of the backstop, but we should also be actively preparing for no-deal with ever more enthusiasm.”
Westmonster
Brexiteer Boris Johnson used his speech yesterday in Parliament to strongly warn against any delay to Brexit, whilst advocating a vote against Theresa May’s deal. He said that the country “can’t seriously contemplate delaying Article 50” and that if such a delay did take place “the public would accuse us of deliberately setting out to frustrate their wishes and they would conclude that there was some plot by the deep state to kill Brexit”. Boris described the backstop as a “trap” and said that passing May’s deal would mean “blatantly negating many of the potential benefits of Brexit”.
EU
Times
A chaotic no-deal Brexit moved closer after last night’s defeat, the European Union’s leading officials warned. Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, appealed to MPs to find answers and strongly hinted at the need for a second referendum or parliamentary vote to cancel the decision to leave. “If a deal is impossible and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?” he said
Sun
EU boss Donald Tusk last night warned that Brexit could be cancelled after Theresa May suffered the biggest defeat in British political history. The President of the European Council slammed the UK’s indecision and said a deal was now “impossible” just moments after the Prime Minister’s plan for leaving the EU was crushed by 432 votes to 202. The Eurocrat wrote on Twitter: “If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?” The only way for Brexit to be cancelled would be for Theresa May to revoke Article 50 – or for a second Brexit vote where Brits opted to stay IN the bloc.
Express
MPs rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal in the meaningful vote tonight but were taunted by European Union leaders who warned their “time is almost up” – here is how Europe reacted to the Brexit defeat. Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating loss in the Commons as her Brussels-approved deal lost by 230 votes. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, a far bigger landslide than had been expected. This has now increased the odds of the UK crashing out of the European Union on March 29 without any deal.
Breitbart
The European Union has ruled out a special summit or reopening negotiations on Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement, according to bloc sources, whilst Brexiteers have called the Prime Minister’s Commons defeat a “catastrophic failure of leadership”. It looks unlikely after the crushing defeat of the “worst deal in history” in the House of Commons vote on Tuesday night — where the Prime Minister lost by a historic margin of 202 in favour to 432 against — that the intransigent European Union will budge on the wording of the document.
Guardian
Donald Tusk has made a thinly veiled call for the UK to stay in the EU, suggesting the prime minister’s historic loss in parliament left a deal looking “impossible”. As the scale of the defeat was announced, the president of the European council called for Theresa May to urgently clarify her next move. Brussels had expected the prime minister to lose the vote on the deal she had agreed with the EU, but the size of the majority against – 230 votes – meant there was little hope of the agreement being salvaged.
Mail
The EU has hinted that Brexit should be cancelled after Theresa May’s deal was voted down in the biggest defeat suffered by a Prime Minister in over 100 years. EU Council President Donald Tusk suggested if MPs cannot agree a deal and don’t want to crash out without one, they should consider reversing the historic vote. While EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned that ‘time is almost up’ as he announced no deal planning will be ramped up in the wake of the defeat.
Breitbart
The European Union and Britain’s prime minister are seeking new ways to avoid a no-deal departure of the UK from the bloc but the EU Commission president insists there cannot be a renegotiation of the draft Brexit deal. Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday that despite the difficulties of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May to get the deal through Parliament, he continues to hope she can pull it off next Tuesday. To help her get the deal through, “We are checking with Downing Street what the clarifications could amount to,” he said.
NHS
Times
Dozens of lives could be saved every year by keeping livers alive in a “mechanical body” that has been approved by the NHS to make more organs available for transplant. The liver-in-a-box technology mimics the way in which the body supplies the liver with oxygen and nutrients to keep it alive for longer outside a donor. This gives more time for it to be transplanted into a patient and enables doctors to check whether it is doing its job before they use it.
Mail
Health officials have approved the NHS using a revolutionary machine that keeps livers alive before they are transplanted. Watchdog Nice today publishes guidance recommending perfusion devices that act as ‘life-support machines’ for the organs after they are removed from a donor, pumping them with blood so the tissue does not deteriorate. This can triple the length of time a liver remains viable outside the body – from as little as eight hours if stored on ice to roughly 24 hours.
Times
Dogs can be trained to alert people with type 1 diabetes when their blood sugar falls dangerously low, scientists have shown in a large trial. In some cases the animals’ warnings were quicker to raise the alarm than sophisticated glucose-monitoring devices of the type used by Theresa May. Researchers from the University of Bristol examined more than 4,000 incidents where the blood sugar of a diabetic person teamed with a specially trained dog had dipped dangerously low.
Pensions
Independent
Poorer pensioner couples will lose more than £7,000 a year, under a cut “sneaked out” while MPs are preparing for the showdown Brexit vote. Ministers have been accused of attempting to bury the impact of the change to pension credit, which tops up the incomes of hard-up elderly people. It means couples where only one partner is over the state pension age, which is now 65 or for both men and women depending on when they were born, will no longer receive the extra benefit. It will take effect from 15 May, when the partner below the pension age is required to make a claim for universal credit, which merges six working-age benefits into a single payment.
Drugs
Mail
Gangs are ruthlessly exploiting a legal loophole to get away with luring children as young as 12 to become ‘county lines’ drug mules, police revealed yesterday. Hundreds of vulnerable boys and girls have been groomed by gangs based in Britain’s biggest cities to carry cocaine and heroin to small market towns and seaside resorts, exposing them to horrific violence. Gangs tell the children that if they are caught by police peddling drugs they should cite Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act – effectively protecting them from prosecution. MPs were told yesterday that ‘Mr Bigs’ are abusing the law, introduced by Theresa May as home secretary in 2015, to safeguard their illicit networks.
Education
Times
More than a dozen universities would lose about a third of their students if plans to stop youngsters with low A- level grades getting tuition fee loans go ahead, official data shows. Theresa May has set up a review, headed by the banker Philip Augar, of university funding, which is expected to recommend a cut to tuition fees. However, a leak from the review has also suggested that student loans should not be granted to pupils who get fewer than three Ds at A level. That would effectively stop them from going to university.
Church attacks
Times
At least 15 Catholic churches have been threatened with bomb attacks and stabbings, forcing police to watch over services to protect congregations. They all received menacing letters, leading one school to withdraw pupils from all services at their local church. St Mary’s, in High Green, Sheffield, received a handwritten letter on January 4 warning its leaders that they must “stop all your services straight away”. It said: “If you don’t, your church will be petrol bombed while in service. Continue behind closed doors, your congregation members will be stabbed one by one. Blood on your hands. You have been warned.”
There is a small suggestion I would like to make , can we all refer to the condition of leaving the EU as doing a WORLD TRADE ORDER DEAL and not as a NO DEAL
…..It makes it sound less intimidating to those that don’t understand fully what we are striving for
Who cares a jot about what the European Union thinks about anything, and who cares a jot what Theresa May thinks, and increasingly what any of our political class think as well. The majority do not represent the people of this country, and need to be junked sooner rather than later There has to be a re-alignment of political parties as soon as possible to bring together like minded people from across the political spectrum. The time for talking has finished we want some action. More importantly we want the return of a fully independent United Kingdom by the 29th March 2019, able to determine its own laws, able to control our own borders, able to trade with whom we like, outside of the single market and customs union. No ifs and no buts, no deals, no strings and no conditions. If the EU don’t like it tough. There is a whole world waiting for us out there…………
I am intrigued what the EU thinks. How many want us to leave, how many are cheering us on, How many want to invade, How are these split by country , are the yellow vests behind us,, ARE WE BEHIND THE YELLOW VESTS. ? IF NOT WHY NOT ?What is Norways take, What do swiss think. I’m clear that America is with us, as is ( now ), Brasil as well., Iceland , Holland Spain is terrified, but watching microscopically at Gibraltar for any signs of idiot Corbyn. Most politicians worldwide are looking to their own skins.!
Why are we obsessed with our own bowels. I suppose its as good a place to start as any.
The entire country is in dire straights. Various governments have held onto or gained power with unaffordable bribes and borrowing and have now tried every trick in the book to get more tax and now killed the golden goose. There are now almost no wealth producing industries left and they are being propped up by working on government projects or public money. We can’t even borrow except from our own banks eg not just more debt but also devalueing the currency and making things even worse
Without the opportunities of Brexit we are dead in the water. I recommend we all leave and let foolish remainers suffer the consequences.
OUT, we stand a chance. We have to leave. Politics is frightened. What used to work no loger works
Education.
It’s fair to say that students with low grades should not have access to university as they still would be committing to massive loans to take useless low-grade degree courses when they are not ready.
However this should not mean that such students don’t have access to further education at all.
Some kids may take longer to mature. Grades at 17/18 might not be indicative of potential in all cases.
In those cases young people should be encouraged to study later, perhaps at 21, or even later , when they have matured a bit more and when they are more committed to study.
‘Access’ courses, which allow anyone from any background to take pre-university studies, are extremely useful and even the top universities welcome Access students who perform well.
I saw Jon Snow of C4 interviewing Nigel Farage last night. Snow was so rude. Such a comparison to other interviews.
National newspaper headlines today reach an all time low in journalistic standards a perfect example of the recent British media , are they following the public or are the public setting the standard. If it’s the latter than the country is facing real problems.
The EU has suggested that Brexit should be cancelled after the vote last night. This cannot be done as we the British people voted to Leave in 2016, well over 2 years ago and the largest vote in our history must be honoured by the government. I cannot understand how May has survived after the largest defeat for a government in our history. It is really quite simple for the Conservatives they must make May resign and replace her with a Brexiteer who will take us out on WTO rules. Forget the scare stories about no deal we are a member of the WTO and the rest of the world trade on these terms.
I’m fed up of reading statements such as “chaotic no-deal Brexit”.
A no-deal Brexit is exactly what we voted for when we put our X against the “Leave the European Union” option on the ballot paper, aka as truly leave and trade on WTO rules as we do with most of the world. As for chaotic it will only be so owing the the actions of those in government still trying to prove the veracity of their ridiculous claims.
The “stupid” (in reality not stupid but evil) woman will still not give up. I hope that she suffers for it.