MPs rejected every alternative Brexit voted on tonight as Brexit descended into a new level of chaos.
Tonight, MPs held a series of votes in the Commons on Brexit alternatives to Theresa May's deal just hours after Mrs May said she would quit once her Brexit deal is delivered - in an attempt to cajole rebel hardline Brexiteer MPs in her own party to support her.
But in a fresh blow to the Prime Minister's plans, the DUP indicated they were still unable to back the deal because it 'poses a threat to the integrity of the UK.'
It means MPs are no closer to agreeing on Brexit after they voted down all eight options in a series of 'indicative votes' designed to establish what kind of deal might secure a majority in Parliament, this evening.
On a dramatic night inside and outside the Commons, a second referendum narrowly won the most votes tonight - losing 295 to 268. A permanent UK-EU customs union won almost as much support and had fewer votes against - defeating it 272 to 264.
No Deal was rejected by 400 to 160, while MPs voted 273 to 184 against cancelling Brexit altogether. A soft Brexit plan to join EFTA and the EEA lost 377 to 65, while a similar Norway-style plan lost 283 to 188. Jeremy Corbyn's plans lost 307 to 237.
The Brexiteers' favoured plan to negotiate a two-year standstill deal with the EU suffered the worst defeat 422 to 139.
At the second meaningful vote on March 12, Mrs May's deal was defeated 391 to 242 - a weaker performance than a second referendum and a permanent customs union.
MPs voted against a backdrop of Mrs May announcing she will quit as PM if MPs back her deal - which was not on the menu tonight. Her deal still appears doomed after the DUP said they would vote against it again.
Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the failure of MPs to find a consensus undermined the need for MPs to back Theresa May's 'compromise' deal. He said failure to do so meant 'there are no guarantees on where this process will end'.
He warned there was 'no simple way forward' and told the Commons 'there are no easy options here'.
The Commons was suspended for 30 minutes so MPs could fill in a green ballot paper, answering yes or no to each of the eight proposals.
Theresa May (pictured returning to Parliament tonight) sensationally promised to quit Downing Street in return for Tory Brexiteer rebels passing her deal tonight as she admitted her time as Prime Minister was almost over
A second referendum narrowly won the most votes tonight - losing 295 to 268. A permanent UK-EU customs union won also as much support and had fewer votes against - defeating it 272 to 264.
Brexiteer Tory MP Michael Fabricant tweeted a picture of his indicative vote ballor tonight.He endorsed plans for a No Deal on April 12 and negotiating a two-year 'standstill' deal with the EU
In a huge blow for the Prime Minister, DUP leader Arlene Foster (pictured tonight on Sky News) said her party still could not support the deal because it 'poses a threat to the integrity of the UK'
A party statement said 'we will not be supporting the Government if they table a fresh meaningful vote' - with Westminster leader Nigel Dodds vowing to vote No
The most favoured options are due to go through to a second round vote next week on Monday.
If there is a firm conclusion then, MPs will then try to pass new laws forcing Theresa May to adopt their favoured option, before Britain will leave the EU on April 12 assuming the Brexit deal does not pass this week.
Labour led the charge for a second referendum and a soft Brexit as Jeremy Corbyn ordered his MPs to vote for watering down the Government deal that has been crushed twice already.
Mr Corbyn was expected to face a raft of resignations from Labour frontbenchers opposed to a public vote.
In the event, shadow housing minister Melanie Onn was the only one to quit - though 27 Labour MPs rebelled overall.
Amid deep Tory splits, most Conservative MPs had a free vote across the board, except for the Cabinet who will be told to abstain.
The move will avoid a dozen or more junior ministers resigning tonight.
Three ministers were among 10 Tory rebels who voted to revoke Article 50 and stay in the EU to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
Foreign Office ministers Sir Alan Duncan and Mark Field were joined by health minister Stephen Hammond in voting for the motion tabled by the SNP's Joanna Cherry, which was defeated by 293 votes to 184.
They were joined by ex-Government figures and Remainer rebels including ex-chancellor Ken Clarke, ex-education secretary Justine Greening and former attorney general Dominic Grieve.
Mr Clarke was also the only Tory to back a motion by Jeremy Corbyn which would back it's alternative Brexit plan, which includes a closer relationship with the EU than Theresa May's deal.
His own motion, that would have backed a Brexit plan with a customs union, was defeated by eight votes after a dozen Labour Leave-supports MPs voted against it.
They included John Mann and Denis Skinner and mostly represented seats in the north which voted to quit the EU
During today's debate Labour's Stephen Kinnock set out Amendment D, which proposes a Common market 2.0 model.
He said: 'This really is five minutes to midnight for this parliament, for this Government and for this country.
'We desperately need to find a way out of this mess. Our country has spent two years tied up in knots by the Prime Minister's incompatible red lines which offered such a narrow interpretation of the referendum result.
'A 52-48 vote was certainly not an instruction for a disastrous no-deal, or a hard Canada-style job-destroying Brexit. It was an instruction to move house but to stay in the same neighbourhood.
Mr Kinnock said the model proposed in Amendment D respected the referendum without 'wrecking the economy'.
'It is worth remembering what Nigel Farage told a Question Time audience in 2016. 'I hear people say' he said, 'wouldn't it be terrible if we were like Norway or Switzerland. Really? They are rich, they are happy and they are self-governing countries'.'
Mr Kinnock said the common market 2.0 model would retain access to the single market with minimal renegotiation, avoiding what he said is the 'forest of unicorns and rainbows' proposed by Eurosceptics.
Speaking in favour of Common market 2.0, Tory Nick Boles (Grantham and Stamford) said he wanted to make the case for 'compromise'.
He said: 'Not as something cowardly but as something courageous. In a divided country and a divided parliament, finding and sustaining a compromise that most people can support is a noble endeavour.
'After years of paralysing conflict we have moral duty to open our minds this afternoon and reach for a compromise that will allow us to put the interminable Brexit row behind us.'
He added: 'The great strength of the Common market 2.0 proposal relative to all other Brexit compromises is that it offers something important and valuable to everyone and every party in this House.'
Mr Boles added MPs would be asked in years to come: 'Did you stand up and lead, did you step forward to help reunite our country, or did you hang back in your party trench, waiting to be told what to do and where to go?
'I have already made my choice at the cost of my future career in this House, it is now time for others to choose.'
Backing No Deal, Tory MP John Baron said: 'There are too many wild predictions flying around this place when really the argument or the discussion should be based on economic reality.
'And I would go one stage further. By introducing a fair and controlled immigration policy, wages will rise faster in this country than if this immigration policy was not in place.'
Mr Baron added: 'I would suggest to the House that scare stories that somehow we are all headed for doom and gloom, that goods will no longer transverse customs unions, trading blocs around the world, they already do that, is very wide of the mark.'
Before the vote, an internal Labour row broke out in the Labour party when, shadow trade minister Barry Gardiner said that Mr Corbyn will order MPs to vote against the 'extreme option' of stopping Brexit and leaving with No Deal tonight because 'Labour is not a Remain party'.
An online petition demanding Article 50 be revoked has now been signed by almost six million people.
But in an interview with the BBC Mr Gardiner also revealed that Labour could have difficulty supporting a plan for a second referendum on any Brexit deal, in case it led to stopping Britain leaving the EU.
He said: 'Our policy is clearly that we would support a public vote to stop No Deal or to stop a bad deal, but not that we would allow a bad deal as long as the public had the opportunity to reject Brexit altogether.
'That implies that you are a Remain party. The Labour Party is not a Remain party now. We have accepted the result of the referendum.'
His intervention has already caused fury among Labour MPs, many of whom are backing the petition calling for Brexit to be stopped, which has gathered more than 5.75 million signatures.
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson took centre stage to demand a second EU referendum at a huge march in central London on Saturday - as Jeremy Corbyn stayed away.
He tweeted today: 'I've had many calls about Barry Gardiner's interview, which I missed. Whipping arrangement have not yet been agreed'.
Backbencher Wes Streeting suggested Mr Gardiner's words could force MPs to quit the party.
He said: 'This the complete opposite of what we've been told is happening today. The opposite of what @Keir-Starmer told the Commons. The opposite of what @EmilyThornberry said last night. The opposite of what Labour stands for. Urgent leadership needed. We live in hope...'
Speaker John Bercow eight options from a possible 16 as debate on the future of Brexit today as an unprecedented debate finally began in the Commons
What PM needs to edge to victory... by just 2 votes. There are 235 Tory loyalists, 10 switchers, 30 who with back the deal if May quits, 10 DUP supporters and 24 Labour
'One thing's for sure: I will be resuming my role as a membership retention hotline in the coming days to ask passionately pro-European Labour members not to leave. Again.
Jess Phillips tweeted: 'It is NOT Labour policy only to vote for peoples vote only in circumstances of no deal. NOT AT ALL. It is Labour Policy & has been for years to support compulsory sex & relationship education, guess we'll see how both are whipped today to see how much we care about members views.
'We cannot be all things to all people and they know that, they are ok with that. I find people don't mind if they don't agree with you, if you are clear, principled and honest. Fudge it and they smell you out a mile off'.
Speaking before whipping arrangements were agreed, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Gardiner's remarks were 'exactly in line' with party policy.
'We had to accept in our manifesto respect for the referendum result. We campaigned for Remain, we lost, we have to accept that,' he said.
'What he is saying is exactly in line with party policy. We have got to prevent a new deal, prevent a bad deal, advocate for our own policy, try to get a general election if we can, but failing that, if there is a logjam, yes, we will if necessary go back to the people.'
Tonight MPs will consider a motion, tabled in the name of former foreign secretary Dame Margaret Beckett, requiring a public vote before ratification of any deal, in a series of indicative votes on Wednesday.
More than a million anti-Brexit campaigners took part in the People's Vote March in London - but Jeremy Corbyn did not go
However Mr Gardiner said that if Labour voted for it, it could suggest that they were a 'Remain party' - which was not the case.
He said that under the terms of the motion, any referendum could be a choice between Theresa May's deal or staying in the EU.
'It would be saying we could accept what we have always said is a very bad deal.
'Therefore it looks as if the attempt to have a public vote on it is simply a way of trying to remain because nobody likes this deal,' he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
'To put that up as the only alternative in a public vote and say we will let it go through looks as though you believe that at the end of it Remain would be the result.
'It is not where our policy has been'.
Tom Watson told crowds in Parliament Square that he would only support Theresa May's deal if the public were allowed a vote on it too.
His appearance at the march was in stark contrast to Mr Corbyn's lukewarm support for a so-called 'People's Vote'.
It comes amid speculation that Labour will swing strongly behind a second referendum over the next few days.
Organisers of the People' Vote campaign claimed that 1 million people attended the march on Saturday.
Addressing the crowd, Mr Watson urged the Prime Minister to 'let the people take control'.
'At every turn we have been ignored,' he said. 'At every stage Theresa May has doubled down rather than reaching out.
'She has made it impossible for anyone who cares about jobs, about solidarity at home and abroad, about friendship across borders and between communities to support this Brexit.'
Who could replace Theresa May?
Here are the top runners and riders to replace the Prime Minister, their odds with Ladbrokes and how they voted in the 2016 referendum:
Michael Gove 4/1
Michael Gove's odds have shortened in recent days
- Leading Vote Leave figure in 2016 who now backs PM's Brexit deal
- Former journalist, 51, who stood for leadership in 2016
- Was sacked as education minister by Theresa May
- Later returned as Environment Minister
A Brexiteer with a machiavellian reputation after the 2016 leadership campaign in which he first supported Boris Johnson for the leadership and then stood against him, to their mutual disadvantage.
The former education secretary - sacked by Mrs May - was rehabilitated to become a right-on environment secretary - complete with reusable coffee cups and a strong line on food standards after Brexit.
Despite being a former lead figure in the Vote Leave campaign alongside Mr Johnson the former journalist and MP for Surrey Heath has swung behind Mrs May's Brexit deal.
At the weekend he denied being involved in a coup seeking to make him a caretaker PM.
Seen as one of the Cabinet's strongest political thinkers and having stood once it is unthinkable that he would not stand again.
Boris Johnson 4/1
Boris Johnson is very popular with the Tory grassroots
- Former foreign secretary and mayor of London
- Voted leave and has become an increasingly hardline Brexiteer
- As likely to make headlines over his private life
- Has recently lost a lot of weight and smartened up his appearance
The former foreign secretary who quit last July and has been tacitly campaigning for the leadership ever since returning to the backbenches with a regular stream of attacks on Mrs may and her Brexit strategy.
Never far from the limelight it is his private life that has seen him most in the news recently after splitting from his wife Marina and embarking on a relationship with a former Conservative communications staffer 20 years his junior.
A hawkish Brexiteer hugely popular with the party faithful, in recently weeks he has further boosted his frontrunner credentials with what might be deemed a 'prime ministerial' makeover.
He has lost weight and taming his unruly mop of blonde hair into something approaching the haircut of a serious senior statesman.
Jeremy Hunt 8/1
Jeremy Hunt backed Remain in 2016 but has undergone a conversion to the Brexit cause
- The Foreign Secretary voted Remain
- But has become an increasingly vocal Brexiteer
- Backs May's deal
- Has approached ministers about running as a unity candidate
The Foreign Secretary who has undergone a Damascene conversion to the Brexit cause in with a series of hardline warnings to the EU.
The 52-year-old South West Surrey MP is the most senior Cabinet minister in contention.
He has reportedly been selling himself to colleagues as a unity candidate who can bring together the fractious Tory factions into something approaching a cohesive party.
A long-serving health secretary, he replaced Mr Johnson as the UK's top diplomat and has won some plaudits over issues like the imprisonment of British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran.
But critics point to tub-thumpingly comparing the EU to the USSR at the party conference last year - which was very badly received in Brussels - and a gaffe in which he referred to his Chinese wife as 'Japanese' as a reception in China.
Dominic Raab 10/1
The former Brexit Secretary is now a Theresa May critic
- Shortlived Brexit secretary last year, replacing David Davis in the hot seat
- But walked in November over terms agreed by PM
- Voted for Brexit in 2016
Mr Raab, 45, is another Vote Leave member who became Brexit secretary after David Davis quit alongside Mr Johnson last July over the Chequers plan.
But he lasted just a matter of months before he too jumped ship, saying he could not accept the terms of the deal done by the Prime Minister.
Like Mr Johnson and Mr Davis he has become an increasingly hardline Brexiteer, sharing a platform with the DUP's Arlene Foster and suggesting we should not be afraid of a no-deal Brexit.
The Esher and Walton MP's decision to quit in November, boosted his popularity with party members but he lacks the wider popular appeal of Mr Johnson.
And like Mr Johnson he might benefit from having quit the Cabinet at an earlier stage and dissociating himself with the dying days of the May administration.
Sajid Javid 12/1
Sajid Javid has kept a relatively low profile throughout the Brexit chaos
- The most senior cabinet contender
- Voted Remain but wants to see Brexit delivered
- Faced criticism as Home Secretary
- But has taken a hard line on Shamima Begum case
The Home Secretary, a Remainer who wants to see Brexit delivered, was the leading candidate from inside the Cabinet to replace Mrs May.
After replacing Amber Rudd last year he consciously put clear ground between himself and the Prime Minister on issues like caps on skilled migrants after Brexit.
But his credentials have taken a hit in recent weeks. He finds himself facing ongoing criticism of his handling of the knife crime crisis affecting UK cities, which sparked a cabinet row over funding for police.
He also lost face over his handling of the influx of migrants crossing the English Channel in January, being seen to move slowly in realising the scale of the problem.
But more recently the 49-year-old Bromsgove MP has made a serious of hardline decision designed to go down well with Tory voters.
Most notably they have included moving to deprive London teenager turned Jihadi bride Shamima Begum, 19, of her British citizenship.
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