Theresa May survived the latest showdown in the Commons tonight after screeching U-turns on the possibility of delaying Brexit and allowing MPs to block no deal.
The Prime Minister faced down a Cabinet row and hostile questions from Brexiteers yesterday ahead of the new round of votes in the Commons tonight.
Mrs May has told MPs they must accept her deal by March 12 - but admitted if they refuse the Commons will vote on no deal on March 13. If no deal is blocked, MPs will vote on delaying Brexit on March 14.
Following tonight's votes, Labour MP Yvette Cooper has claimed victory in her efforts to block no deal because the vote on crashing out is effectively a veto.
Ms Cooper's amendment setting out the no deal and delay votes passed by 502 to 20. Another 88 Tory MPs missed the vote endorsing the timetable - signalling another huge Brexiteer rebellion.
Mrs May's motion was then agreed as amended unopposed.
Tonight's votes also marked the moment Labour switched its support from pursuing its own Brexit to backing a second referendum.
Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs on Monday defeat tonight would mean the choice facing Britain was a no deal Brexit or Mrs May's Tory Brexit - meaning a public vote was the only option.
Mr Corbyn's amendment setting out the Labour plan was duly defeated 323 to 240 votes - prompting the Labour leader to declare: 'We will back a public vote in order to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit or a disastrous no deal outcome.'
The Government accepted a further amendment demanding EU citizens in Britain and UK nationals in the EU be protected whether there is a deal or not.
Theresa May (pictured today at PMQs) has survived the latest showdown in the Commons despite Remain MPs claiming she has taken no deal off the table
Labour MP Yvette Cooper - who has led efforts to block no deal - grilled Mrs May's deputy on the promise ahead of tonight's votes
She claimed victory when David Lidington said the Government would be bound by a vote against no deal on March 13.
Ms Cooper said: 'Today the Deputy Prime Minister said that it was no longer Government policy to pursue No Deal on March 29th as the default option if they do not have a deal in place in time, and instead that they will be bound by the decision by Parliament to choose either No Deal or extending Article 50.
'This is a very significant change and implements many of the measures we had put in our Bill to make it possible to avert a damaging No Deal which would hit manufacturing, food prices, medicine supplies, policing and security.
'We will keep up the pressure working cross-party to ensure the commitments are implemented, including keeping the Bill ready in case it is needed to avoid any backsliding and to make sure we do not end up with a chaotic No Deal.
'We will be ready to table further amendments if Ministers go back on their word.
In a major shift yesterday, Mrs May said there would be a second 'meaningful vote' to approve or reject her deal by March 12. If defeated, there will be a vote to approve no deal on March 13. If this is rejected, there will be a vote to approve delaying Brexit on March 14.
No 10 insisted Ms Cooper's amendment spelling out the promises is unnecessary but said it would not oppose the amendment if there is a vote later.
If the Government refuses to do so, Remain MPs could still try to force through a change in the law that would force ministers to delay Brexit to avoid no deal.
As he opened a debate on Brexit ahead of tonight's votes, Mr Lidington told Ms Cooper the 'short answer' to her question was 'yes'.
He said 'the words used yesterday by the Prime Minister were words that had been discussed and agreed at Cabinet yesterday morning'
MPs are due to vote from 7pm tonight on a series of amendments designed to block no deal
Mr Lidington said there has been 'a lot of speculation' about what would happen if MPs vote down Mrs May's deal when it comes back to the House, but said he was confident she can get the Withdrawal Agreement passed.
The PM's de facto deputy said it was due to the 'extensive work that has taken place to make good the call from this House to make legal changes to guarantee that the Northern Irish backstop cannot endure indefinitely'.
He said since the so-called 'Brady amendment' was passed last month himself, Mrs May, Brexit Secretary Steven Barclay and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox have been in 'focused discussions' and are 'making good progress' on coming up with 'alternative arrangements'.
Ahead of the debate, Jacob Rees-Mogg dramatically jettisoned his demand for the Irish backstop to be scrapped completely as Mrs May urged Parliament to 'do its duty' and vote through her Brexit deal.
The leader of the Tory hard Brexit-supporting European Research Group [ERG] has now hinted he could back the PM's divorce from Brussels if it is tweaked rather than re-written.
Mr Rees-Mogg, who had demanded the EU re-opened the Withdrawal Agreement and axed the backstop, now says he would back Mrs May if there was a time limit on the backstop in a document of 'equal legal standing'.
In a major softening of the ERG's stance he said: 'If it were to be an appendix that would be satisfactory.
'But it has to be of equal legal standing'.
The PM's cabinet is at war after she agreed to a vote to delay Brexit - with Brexiteers warning the PM she may have been 'sucked in' to a conspiracy to delay Brexit by up to two years - or avoid it completely.
She will now allow a vote to delay Brexit beyond March 29 if she cannot get her deal through the Commons after ministers including Amber Rudd, David Gauke and Claire Perry threatened to quit.
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The Prime Minister faced down a Cabinet row and hostile questions from Brexiteers yesterday ahead of the new round of votes in the...
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