{"id":182202,"date":"2019-01-15T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182202"},"modified":"2019-01-17T05:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T05:31:43","slug":"theresa-may-loses-brexit-deal-vote-by-majority-of-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182202","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May loses Brexit deal vote by majority of 230"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Heather Stewart \u2013 Guardian.co.uk Jan 15, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Theresa-May-March-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-168856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Theresa-May-March-2018-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa May March 2018\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/theresamay\">Theresa May<\/a><\/strong><\/span> has sustained the heaviest parliamentary defeat of any British prime minister in the democratic era after MPs rejected her Brexit deal by a resounding majority of 230.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The prime minister immediately announced that she would welcome a vote of no confidence in her own government, and would make time for it on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, quickly confirmed he had tabled the motion, with the support of the leaders of all other opposition parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Corbyn told MPs: \u201cThis is a catastrophic defeat. The house has delivered its verdict on her deal. Delay and denial has reached the end of the line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">May said if she survived the vote \u2013 which appeared likely, after the Democratic Unionist party said it would back her \u2013 she would hold cross-party meetings with senior parliamentarians \u201cto identify what would be required to secure the backing of the house\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Brexit-supporting Conservatives joined with opposition parties and the DUP to trounce the government in the \u201cmeaningful vote\u201d, which the prime minister delayed before Christmas in the vain hope of winning over waverers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jan\/15\/theresa-may-loses-brexit-deal-vote-by-majority-of-230\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa May suffers the heaviest defeat by any sitting prime minister in the modern era<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182206,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182202\/revisions\/182206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}