Theresa May is truly on the ropes. But there may yet be life in her deal | Martin Kettle

With the vote against no deal, power is passing to coalitions of MPs. But the prime minister may still be able to push her preferred Brexit through

And so the Brexit options facing Theresa May tighten again, remorselessly and painfully, and with more pain to come. A day after a second decisive defeat for her withdrawal deal with the EU, and amid threats and chaos in the Westminster lobbies, MPs narrowly wrested control from May by four votes over the possibility of no deal. Then in a second vote they drove the message home again, this time by an unambiguous majority of 43.

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