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May Faces Worst Government Defeat in 95 Years in Key Brexit Vote

"Theresa May wins confidence vote - BBC News"

By Thomas Penny and Robert Hutton
January 15, 2019, 10:22 AM GMT+11

* With victory apparently impossible, focus is on size of defeat

* Prime minister’s opponents prepare for next phase of battle

Prime Minister Theresa May is set to see her Brexit deal rejected in the biggest Parliamentary defeat for a British government in 95 years after her last minute pleas for support appeared to fall on deaf ears. The battle now is over not whether May loses, but how badly.

At least 70 of her Conservative Party, as well as sometime allies in the Democratic Unionist Party, are publicly pledged to join opposition Members of Parliament in voting against her agreement Tuesday. That would translate into a defeat by a margin of 150 or more, the largest in over a century. Even if some abstain, a defeat by more than 100 would be the worst since 1924.

Continued - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-14/may-faces-worst-government-defeat-in-95-years-in-key-brexit-vote