MPs have once again rejected a series of alternative Brexit plans as four options failed to get a majority in the Commons.

A proposal from Tory grandee Ken Clarke for a customs union arrangement with the EU was rejected by only three votes, while a demand for a second referendum was defeated by 12 and a Norway-style deal beaten by 21.

A fourth option, which called for Article 50 to be revoked if a deal could not be agreed and MPs rejected leaving without a deal, went down by 191 votes to 292.

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Mr Clarke's motion demanding the UK form a customs union with the EU came closest to passing, garnering 273 votes, with 276 MPs casting ballots the other way.

Nick Boles' motion calling for a Common Market 2.0 - a plan for close engagement with the EU after Brexit along the lines of Norway's relationship with the bloc - got 261 votes in favour, with 282 ballots against.

Mr Boles declared that he would no longer sit as a Conservative MP after the defeat.

A motion calling for a second referendum on any Brexit deal passed by parliament gained the highest number of votes in favour - 280 - but 292 MPs voted against it.

The motion with the heaviest defeat margin called for Article 50 to be revoked in the event that a deal could not be agreed and MPs rejected leaving without a deal, which went down by 191 votes to 292.

Click on the links below to find out how your MP voted on previous Brexit debates. </s> MPs again rejected all options set out in Parliament last night in a series of "indicative votes" aimed at finding a way forward for Brexit.

It was the second time in the space of a week that all alternatives to Theresa May's deal were rejected by Parliament after the Commons took control of the Brexit process following the Prime Minister's three defeats on her plan.

Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay told MPs that the default outcome was now a no-deal Brexit on April 12, but said it was still possible to leave with a deal - and avoid holding European Parliament elections in May - if the Commons approves an agreement this week.

Cabinet will meet today for five hours to try and thrash out a way forward.

Here's how our MPs voted for each of the alternative plans set out last night:

The UK would join the European Free Trade Association and European Economic Area with countries such as Norway, allowing us to remain part of the single market, retaining freedom of movement, so British citizens would keep the right to live and work in the EU and vice-versa.

Former Conservative MP Nick Boles's Common Market 2.0 motion was defeated by 282 votes to 261, majority 21.

Would see the Government to negotiating "a permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU" as part of any Brexit deal.

Would give the UK a closer trading relationship with the EU and reduce the need for some (but not all) checks at the Irish border.

Tory former chancellor Ken Clarke's customs union motion was defeated by 276 votes to 273, majority three.

Gives the public a vote to approve any Brexit deal passed by Parliament, before it can be implemented.

MPs voted by 292 votes to 280, majority 12, to reject Labour MP Peter Kyle's second Brexit referendum motion.

Giving MPs power to block leaving with no-deal by cancelling Brexit if EU won’t grant a further extension beyond 12 April

SNP MP Joanna Cherry's proposal saw 191 votes for, 292 against, defeated by a majority 101 </s> Paul O'Connor, Head of the UK-based Multi-Asset Team, discusses the ongoing impasse within Parliament as MPs unsuccessfully attempt to narrow down approaches to Brexit.
• None The Brexit process remains gridlocked after none of the eight withdrawal deals presented to Parliament could muster a majority vote on March 27.
• None We believe Prime Minister Theresa May could try a third time to get support for her Brexit plan, but the prospects are not encouraging.
• None With the clock ticking toward the April 12 deadline for a "no deal" Brexit, a general election seems to be a growing possibility.

Sixteen different potential approaches to Brexit were presented to British members of Parliament (MPs) this week, eight were voted on March 27 - none received majority support. The Brexit process remains gridlocked.

Advocates of softer forms of Brexit might take encouragement from the fact that the two most popular solutions were ones involving the UK remaining in a permanent customs union with the European Union (EU) and another proposing a second referendum on the withdrawal deal. Still, these options did have more votes against them than in favor, and it remains the case that a wide range of outcomes are still plausible, including the hardest "no deal" Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed plan, softer versions of Brexit or even Brexit being revoked.

In terms of parliamentary procedure, the plan from here is for a shorter list of Wed.'s options to be presented to MPs again on Monday, probably with a new voting mechanism, in a renewed effort to establish majority support for one option.

Before then, there is a good chance that Ms. May will try one more time to get support for her Brexit plan, which has already been rejected twice by Parliament. The prospects here are not encouraging given that Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), led by Arlene Foster and, in Westminster, by deputy leader Nigel Dodds, remains opposed to the deal in its current form and the prime minister has limited scope to amend it. Parliamentary arithmetic suggests that Ms. May's deal has little chance of being passed without the support of the DUP. Even the prime minister's promise made Wed. to quit if her Brexit plan was voted through was not enough to shift the DUP position.

The clock is ticking and the pressure is building. If Parliament cannot establish support for either Ms. May's plan or one of the other Brexit options in the days ahead, then the UK will need to request an extended delay to the Brexit process to avoid the alternative "no deal" Brexit on April 12. Before granting a longer extension, the EU is likely to demand that the UK identify some way of breaking the deadlock. A general election is a growing possibility here, although it is far from obvious why this would be an effective solution given how polarized and entrenched political opinion on Brexit is in the UK. As the eight votes showed last night, it is not hard to get agreement on rejecting options for Brexit but establishing consensus for a way forward remains elusive.

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A vote in the House of Commons has been defeated by one vote after the Speaker John Bercow cast the deciding ballot.

MPs were voting on a motion to hold more indicative votes on alternative plans for Brexit but the result was tied with 310 votes for and 310 against.

Mr Bercow then voted "no" in accordance with precedent. </s> The proposal for indicative votes was spearheaded by former Conservative minister Sir Oliver Letwin as an attempt to break the Brexit impasse. On Monday night, a 29-strong rebellion by Tory MPs saw the government defeated and Sir Oliver's proposal backed. This means on Wednesday, the votes will take precedence over Government business, which will be sidelined - an extraordinary move in the shift of control.

The purpose of these votes is to see what - if anything - commands a majority in the House of Commons. After MPs rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal twice, then voted against no deal, and then voted for an extension to Brexit, these votes are meant to clarify what the house would support. However, it’s worth noting the outcome of these votes doesn't hold any legal weight. READ MORE: What is the Brexit backstop? A really simple explanation

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday the Government would listen to MPs but "can't pre-commit to following whatever they vote for". How will it work? MPs will have until the end of the day on Tuesday to table different Brexit options for the Commons to vote on in indicative votes. These will likely include a permanent UK-EU customs union; a Norway-style relationship with the EU; a no-deal Brexit; a "confirmatory" referendum on any Brexit deal; or even the revocation of the Article 50 notification and the cancellation of the UK's exit from the UK.

On Wednesday around 3pm, speaker John Bercow will announce which of the options he has chosen for debate and to be voted on. These will then be debated until 7pm, at which point MPs will be given half-an-hour to vote on the various options. They'll each be handed a piece of paper and asked to write "aye" or "noe" next to each option. MPs can vote for more than one option - they can support as many plans as they want, even if they’d technically cancel one another out. </s> MPs Reject Plan For More Indicative Brexit Votes After John Bercow Breaks Tie

MPs have rejected a plan to hold a third round of indicative Brexit votes after Speaker John Bercow broke the tie by voting against the amendment.

They voted by 310 to 310 on Labour MP Hilary Benn's amendment on Wednesday afternoon.

After the tie was announced, Speaker John Bercow casted his vote, in line with precedent, with the noes.

He said it was not for him to "create a majority which does not otherwise exist".

This meant Mr Benn's amendment was defeated by 311 votes to 310, majority one.

His proposal sought a third round of Brexit indicative votes on Monday April 8 - the previous two bouts had failed to find a majority.

It was the first tie in a Commons vote since 1993.

Meanwhile, MPs later approved the motion to allow them to take control of the Commons agenda to debate Labour MP Yvette Cooper's

European Union (Withdrawal) (No 5) Bill by 312 votes to 311, majority one.

They will consider on Wednesday all stages of Ms Cooper's Bill, which requires Prime Minister Theresa May to table a motion seeking MPs' approval for an extension to the Article 50 process beyond April 12 to a date of her choosing. </s> LONDON (AP) — Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union.

The "People's Vote March" snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

Marchers carried European Union flags and signs praising the longstanding ties between Britain and continental Europe. The protest drew people from across Britain who are determined to force Prime Minister Theresa May's government to alter its march toward Brexit.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, invited to help lead the march, called the crowd impressive and unified.

"There is a huge turnout of people here from all walks of life, of all ages and from all over the country," he tweeted. "We are a Remain country now with 60 percent wanting to stop the Brexit mess."

Police did not provide a crowd estimate. Independent legislator Chuka Umunna and others supporting a second Brexit referendum estimated the crowd at 1 million.

More than 4 million people endorsed an electronic petition this week in favor of revoking Article 50, the act that formally triggered the Brexit process.

The march comes as May, who opposes a second referendum on Britain's EU membership, is easing away from plans to hold a third vote on her troubled Brexit withdrawal plan, which has been strongly rejected twice by Parliament.

In a letter to lawmakers on Friday night, May said she might not seek passage of her Brexit withdrawal plan in Parliament next week. The embattled leader said she would only bring her EU divorce plan back to Parliament if there seems to be enough backing for it to pass.

"If it appears that there is not sufficient support to bring the deal back next week, or the House rejects it again, we can ask for another extension before 12 April, but that will involve holding European Parliament elections," she said.

May's changing stance reflects the plan's dismal chances in the House of Commons after two prior defeats.

She also says she would need the approval of House Speaker John Bercow to bring the plan back for a third time. Bercow has said a third vote would violate parliamentary rules against repeatedly voting on the same thing unless May's Brexit divorce plan is altered.

Almost three years after Britons voted to walk away from the EU, the bloc's leaders this week seized control of the Brexit timetable from May to avert a chaotic departure on March 29 that would be disruptive for the world's biggest trading bloc and deeply damaging for Britain.

EU leaders at a summit in Brussels set two deadlines for Britain to leave the bloc of nearly half a billion people or to take an entirely new path in considering its EU future.

They agreed to extend the Brexit date until May 22, on the eve of the EU Parliament elections, if May can persuade the British Parliament to endorse her Brexit divorce deal.

Failing that, they gave May until April 12 to choose between leaving the bloc without a divorce deal or deciding on a radically new path, such as revoking Britain's decision to leave, holding a new referendum on Brexit or finding a cross-party consensus for a very different kind of Brexit.

Despite May's letter to lawmakers, it was not clear what path her minority government would take this week.

The anti-Brexit marchers on Saturday included 63-year-old Edmund Sides, who spent the last three weeks walking from Wales to London in order to take part.

Sides, a geologist, said he wanted to be able to speak to people along the way, encouraging families that have been split between Leave and Remain to mend their fences and talk.

"The whole country isn't doing enough of that," he said.

He is worried about the vicious tone that Brexit arguments have started to take and worries about national cohesion.

"People fear the atmosphere is very dangerous in this country," Sides said.

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Danica Kirka contributed to this report.

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Follow AP's full coverage of Brexit at: https://www.apnews.com/Brexit </s> MPs have again rejected a series of alternatives to Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

A call for a customs union after Brexit was defeated by just three votes, a referendum on any deal was rejected by 12 votes, the Common Market 2.0 plan lost by 21 votes and cancelling Brexit to prevent a no-deal scenario was defeated by 101.

So what happens next?

– Tuesday April 2



 Theresa May has scheduled a five-hour Cabinet meeting instead of the usual 90 minutes. The first three hours will be a political Cabinet in the absence of civil servants – fuelling speculation the senior Tories will consider the prospect of a snap election, the timing of the Prime Minister’s departure or the potential for ministerial resignations if there is a change in Brexit strategy.

Backbench MPs will again take charge of the Commons timetable to consider Brexit plans under Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin’s scheme to break the Parliamentary deadlock.

After the latest round of indicative votes failed to produce a clear winner, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said: “If the House were to agree a deal this week it may still be possible to avoid holding European parliamentary elections.”

That could be an indication the Prime Minister might risk a fourth showdown on her Withdrawal Agreement in the hope that more Tory Eurosceptics will accept the choice is between her plan and a softer Brexit.

– Wednesday April 10



 An emergency summit of European Union leaders will consider any request by the UK for a longer delay to Brexit. To be granted a further postponement the Government will have to set out what purpose it would achieve and it will almost certainly involve taking part in the European elections.

The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on April 12 after MPs rejected the Prime Minister’s deal last week.

If Europe’s leaders have agreed an extension to the Article 50 process, the UK will elect MEPs to the European Parliament.

The breakaway Independent Group of MPs has announced it intends to set up a fully fledged political party – Change UK – to fight the elections on a pro-EU platform.

Nigel Farage will seek to continue as an MEP, this time for the newly formed Brexit Party.

Mrs May warned MPs before they rejected her deal that a long extension would “at least delay and could destroy Brexit”.

Three years after the referendum, it is possible the UK will still be in the European Union, have newly elected MEPs and will be contributing to the Brussels budget.

The current make-up of the House of Commons has so far proved unable to agree on any Brexit plan so the Prime Minister could be tempted to call a snap election to break the deadlock.

But having promised not to lead the Tories into the scheduled 2022 election and then said she would quit before the next phase of the Brexit process, would her MPs allow her to fight another contest as leader?

And would a new election produce a decisive result to give whoever occupies Number 10 a majority to steer such a divisive issue through Parliament?

The call for another referendum was defeated by just 12 votes and campaigners seized on the fact it had more MPs voting in favour than any other option.

The narrow defeat for a customs union will increase pressure on Mrs May to move in favour of the measure.

But that would tear the Tory party apart and would be likely to result in Cabinet resignations as critics of the customs union believe it robs the UK of one of the major Brexit prizes – the ability to strike trade deals with countries such as the US. </s> British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered an early defeat to her Brexit plans on Wednesday when members of parliament demanded the government come up with a plan B.

The parliament demanded the alternative plan should be submitted within days if she loses a vote on her deal to leave the EU.

It is less than three months before Britain is due to leave the EU.

The parliament began a five-day battle over May’s Brexit plan with a show of force – undermining her preferred timetable if MPs vote down her deal on Tuesday.

May has refused to retreat from her unpopular deal, which envisages close trading ties with the EU after leaving in March.

She also prefer to press ahead with the vote that she looks set to lose after failing to win over her nominal Northern Irish allies.

Losing the vote would deepen the uncertainty over the future of Brexit, Britain’s biggest shift in foreign and trade policy for more than 40 years.

The possible loss could open the way for several different outcomes, ranging from a disorderly exit to another referendum.

MPs voted 308-297 in favour of demanding the government come up with an alternative plan within three working days after Tuesday’s vote, rather than a planned 21-day limit.

It was a largely symbolic vote aimed at putting pressure on the government.

There were turbulent scenes in parliament when some in May’s Conservative Party accused the speaker of bias.

May’s spokesman said the government’s advice was that parliament could not change its so-called business motion.

The motion sets out the procedure for the Brexit vote, but played down the impact of the vote for its overall plans.

“We are doing everything we can to win the meaningful vote that happens on Tuesday,” the spokesman said.

“But it is also the intention, if that were not to take place that we respond quickly to provide certainty on the way forward following that vote.”

Combined with a vote late on Tuesday when the government lost on the finance bill, the defeats underline May’s precarious position in parliament and the difficult she will have in winning approval for her Brexit deal.

The opposition Labour Party has said that it will immediately table a vote of no confidence in the government if May loses the vote.

With the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit rising, the EU is looking at how Brexit might be postponed.

Pro-EU campaigners are testing ways Britain could hold another referendum after voters narrowly backed leaving in 2016.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, at 2300 GMT.

The government needs 318 votes to get a deal through the 650-seat House of Commons, as seven members of Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein do not sit, four speakers and deputy speakers do not vote and the four tellers are not counted.
The British parliament votes against four alternative Brexit plans.