Vote likely to rule out no-deal exit

London, March 13: A day after British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce bill was rejected in a bruising 149vote defeat, MPs will return to the House of Commons on Wednesday to vote on whether to prevent the UK's exit from the EU by March 29 without any deal in place.

The latest motion to try and avert a chaotic nodeal Brexit, which would see Britain crash out of the 28-member economic bloc without any transition phase, follows a rejection of May's withdrawal agreement 391 to

242 despite a final push by her to try and convince hard-Brexiteers that the concessions she had won to the controversial Irish backstop clause would not see the UK tied to the EU rules indefinitely.

Speaking moments after yet another Parliament defeat over Brexit on Tuesday night, May said that MPs would have to decide whether they want to delay Brexit, hold another referendum, or whether they “want to leave with a deal but not this deal”.

She made her own opposition to a no-deal Brexit very clear, warning of potential damage to the Union that leaving without a deal could do.

The motion to be voted on Wednesday reads: “This House declines to approve leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement and a framework on the future relationship on 29 March.” In an unusual move aimed at curbing further dissent between the various warring cliques within her own Conservative Party, May announced that her party MPs will be given a free vote on the motion and not be whipped to vote in any specific way by the government.