May loses Brexit deal vote by 230
Labour's Corbyn tables motion of no-confidence in government
DUP says it will back prime minister despite opposing agreement
Risk of disorderly exit increased, 'time running out' - EU's Juncker
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement was heavily defeated on Tuesday night by 432 votes to 202, the biggest government loss since 1924.
May immediately offered opposition parties the opportunity to table a no-confidence motion in her government. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn confirmed quickly that he had done so with a vote scheduled for 1900 GMT on Wednesday after a debate.
The prime minister said it was "clear that the house does not support this deal. But tonight’s vote tells us nothing about what it does support. Nothing about how – or even if – it intends to honour the decision the British people took in a referendum parliament decided to hold".
May said she would hold talks immediately with her MPs and other parties "to identify what would be required to secure the backing of the house".
"The government will approach these meetings in a constructive spirit, but given the urgent need to make progress, we must focus on ideas that are genuinely negotiable and have sufficient support in this house...if these meetings yield such ideas, the government will then explore them with the European Union," she said.
Corbyn said the result was "a catastrophic defeat".
"The house has delivered its verdict on her deal. Delay and denial has reached the end of the line,” he said.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
It appeared unlikely on Tuesday night that there would be enough Tory rebels prepared to topple their own government and force an election, even though 118, or 37% of the parliamentary party, voted against May's deal.
In addition the Democratic Unionist Party, whose 10 votes prop up the minority administration under a "confidence and supply" agreement, said it would back May, largely because it dislikes Corbyn even more than the Brexit deal.
If Corbyn was to win on Wednesday night there would be a 14 day period in which the government can seek to regain the confidence of MPs, or form another government.
If this failed, parliament would be dissolved, with a 25 working-day gap required before a General Election is held.
Even if May holds off the challenge on Wednesday she must then present an amendable motion on the withdrawal agreement to parliament by Monday. This means backbenchers could shape any alternative agreement if Commons speaker John Bercow allows it.
EU WARNS 'TIME IS ALMOST UP'
European Council President Donald Tusk suggested after the vote that the only realistic option for the UK was to remain within the 28 member bloc.
"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?"
His European Commission counterpart Jean-Claude Juncker said he noted the outcome "with regret...I urge the UK to clarify its intentions as soon as possible".
"We will continue our preparations for all outcomes, including a no-deal scenario. The risk of a disorderly exit has increased with this vote, and while we do not want this to happen, we will be prepared for it."
"Time is almost up."
"The EU27 will remain united and responsible as we have been throughout the entire process and will seek to reduce the damage caused by Brexit."
"We will continue the EU’s process of ratification of the agreement reached with the UK government. This agreement is and remains the best and only way to ensure an orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union."
Irish Taoseach Leo Varadkar said a disorderly Brexit was a "bad outcome for everyone, not least in Northern Ireland”.
“It is not too late to avoid this outcome and we call on the UK to set out how it proposes to resolve this impasse as a matter of urgency,” he said in a statement.
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit representative, said the UK parliament had said "what it doesn't want. Now is the time to find out what UK parliamentarians want".