A no confidence vote that could oust Theresa May will be held today after Jeremy Corbyn launched his attack seconds after the Brexit deal was crushed.
The Labour leader is seizing on the Brexit chaos to try to force the Tories out of power and get the keys to Number Ten for himself.
But braced for the attack, the PM told the Commons she would face a confidence vote before he had a chance to announce his plan.
Getting to his feet at the end of an explosive day in Parliament, Mr Corbyn said the PM had suffered a 'catastrophic' defeat that has left her Brexit plan in tatters.
He said: 'The result of tonight’s vote is the greatest defeat for a government since the 1920s in this House. This is a catastrophic defeat for this government.
'After two years of failed negotiations, the House of Commons has delivered its verdict on her Brexit deal and that verdict is absolutely decisive.'
His spokesman even suggested that if Labour lose tonight's vote they could table another no confidence vote in future weeks.
The move triggers a high-stakes contest that, if he wins, could send Mrs May tumbling from office and pave the way for a general election.
But Mrs May looks set to cling on tonight after the DUP and her hardline Brexiteers confirmed they would vote for her - despite pulling their support last night.
Jeremy Corbyn is hoping to seize on the chaos of the PM's deal being voted down to table a no confidence motion and try to topple Mrs May
Theresa May (pictured in the Commons last night after her crushing defeat) will face a fresh attack tonight as Labour try to topple her from power
Jeremy Corbyn (pictured leaving Parliament last night) said it was a 'catastrophic' defeat for the Government and confirmed he would seek to oust Mrs May tonight
Mr Corbyn had been under a huge amount of pressure from his MPs to table the vote to try to topple the PM after her humiliation last night.
He had threatened to hold the vote last month, but U-turned on it in a move which saw him mocked by his critics.
Backbencher Gavin Shuker said failure to force a vote would be an 'abdication of leadership' and prove that the Labour leader is just trying to dodge backing a second Brexit referendum.
Mr Shuker said yesterday: 'A failure to table a no confidence motion would be a huge betrayal tonight.
'An abdication of leadership; the act of someone trying dodge a People's Vote and run down the clock.'
Labour want to oust Mrs May, force a general election, seize power and take control of the Brexit talks.
They insist that a Labour government would do a better job in the talks than the PM.
But Labour are deeply divided on Brexit - with many Remainer MPs clamouring for a second referendum while voters in the Labour heartlands overwhelmingly backed Brexit.
Mr Corbyn is under huge pressure from his backbenchers to back a second referendum, dubbed a 'People's Vote'.
But he has tried to dodge these demands by saying that he will push for another election but after that all options are on the table.
And yesterday his spokesman suggested that they could repeatedly try to delay the moment of truth when they will have to decide whether or not to back another referendum by tabling more than one no confidence vote.
Mr Corbyn's spokesman said: 'Motions of no confidence can happen more than once.'
Mrs May lost the crucial vote on her Brexit deal by a staggering 230 votes tonight - the biggest defeat inflicted on a PM in over 100 years.
The previous largest was 166 by the minority Labour government in 1924.
She is now desperately scrambling to try to drum up support from Labour moderates for another tweaked version of her Brexit deal.
If she survives tonight's confidence vote to cling on as PM, then she will hold a series of meetings with MPs across the House to try to find a way forward.
But only three Labour MPs defied their party to vote with the PM on her Brexit plan tonight - John Mann, Ian Austin and Kevin Barron.
Seizing on the PM's defeat to try to push his new bid for power, Mr Corbyn told the Commons: 'I hear the words of the Prime Minister but the actions of her government in these past two years speak equally clearly.
'She is only attempting to reach out now, to try to keep her failed deal alive after it has been so roundly rejected by parliament on behalf of the people of this country.
'Labour had laid out our priorities consistently: no deal must be taken off the table, a permanent customs union must be secured and people's rights and protections must be guaranteed so they don't fall behind.
'At every turn the Prime Minister has closed the door on dialogue.
'Businesses begged her to negotiate a comprehensive customs union, trade union leaders pressed her for the same thing. They were ignored.
'In the last two years, she has only had one priority: the Conservative Party.
'Her governing principle of delay and denial has reached the end of the line.
'She cannot seriously believe that after two years of failure, she is capable of negotiating a good deal for the people of this country.
'On the most important issue facing us, this government has lost the confidence of this House and this country.'
DUP leader Arlene Foster had some solace for Mrs May today as she confirmed that the confidence and supply deal with the Tories - which props them up in power - still holds.
The commitment means there should be little chance of Labour winning a vote.
Mr Corbyn had accused the Prime Minister of trying to 'blackmail' Labour MPs into supporting her Brexit deal.
If the no-confidence motion passes – and a new government with the support of a majority of MPs cannot be formed within a fortnight – Parliament will be dissolved and an early election called.
But the DUP - whose 10 MPs prop the Tories up in power - have vowed to back the PM.
And the Brexit-backing Tory group European Research group, which represents around 60 to 80 Tory MPs - have also pledged to support her.
It came as a poll showed Labour falling six points behind the Conservatives despite the Brexit chaos engulfing Mrs May's party.
In the YouGov poll for the Times Mr Corbyn's party plunged to 35 per cent, its lowest rating since mid December, while the Tories score 41 per cent.
Mr Corbyn is believed to have held off on challenging the Government amid fears that failure to trigger a general election could lead to a second referendum.
Under Labour's Brexit plans, decided at its conference in September, the party's policy is to seek a general election first. If the party cannot secure one, Labour has promised to look at all options – including another referendum.
Polling suggests that a large majority of Labour members want Mr Corbyn to actively back a so-called People's Vote.
But this would prompt a backlash from his pro-Brexit voters in the party's Northern heartlands.
There were noisy protests outside of Parliament tonight as MPs inflicted the historic defeat on Mrs May
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Main photo article A no confidence vote that could oust Theresa May will be held today after Jeremy Corbyn launched his attack seconds after the Brexit deal was crushed.
The Labour leader is seizing on the Brexit chaos to try to force the Tories out of power and get the keys to Number Ten for himself.
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