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• Theresa May’s Brexit defeat: The funniest Twitter reactions

  15-01-2019 23:55
  'Alexa, where's the nearest field of wheat?'
  
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• Neymar, Mbappe join PSG team mates in Qatar

  15-01-2019 23:53
  Neymar and Kylian Mbappe joined their Paris St. Germain team mates for a training session in Qatar.
  
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• MPs preparing bid to delay Brexit, ministers tell business leaders

  15-01-2019 23:42
  Members of Parliament are preparing a motion to delay the Article 50 process of leaving the European Union, government ministers told business leaders, according to a source who was on the call.British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected by MPs on Tuesday night, and in a call with business leaders some of her senior ministers raised the notion that the March 29 date to exit the bloc might be pushed back.Finance minister Philip Hammond, business minister Greg Clark and Brexit mi
  
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• Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: Palace smell blood after latest injury news - Rush The Kop

  15-01-2019 23:40 via rushthekop.com
  Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: Palace smell blood after latest injury news  Rush The KopTrent Alexander-Arnold: Liverpool defender out for at least two weeks with knee injury  BBC SportLiverpool injury updates - latest on Alexander-Arnold, Wijnaldum, Gomez and Oxlade-Chamberlain  Liverpool EchoLiverpool: Jurgen Klopp gambled – could it come back to haunt him?  Rush The KopLiverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold out for up to month with knee injury&nbs
  
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• Ministers split over whether May should soften Brexit deal after defeat

  15-01-2019 23:37
  Theresa May listens to the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, after she lost landmark vote.Conservative MPs voiced shock and concern at the scale of the defeatof Theresa May’s Brexit deal, as cabinet ministers split over whether the prime minister should prioritise her overtures towards the Democratic Unionist party or Labour MPs.Should the prime minister win her no-confidence vote on Wednesday, May said she would seek to find a consensus across the house by speaking to various factions in the
  
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• Alvaro Morata's Chelsea departure hangs in the balance as Atletico Madrid refuse to buy the striker - Daily Mail

  15-01-2019 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  Alvaro Morata's Chelsea departure hangs in the balance as Atletico Madrid refuse to buy the striker  Daily MailHow Tottenham Hotspur could land "future Cristiano Ronaldo" thanks to Chelsea  HITCAtletico Madrid play hardball over Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata  Tribal FootballMorata doesn't fit Atletico mould, so why does Simeone want him?  Daily MailAtletico Madrid are desperate to sign Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata - this is why  Express.co.ukVie
  
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• China expresses 'strong dissatisfaction' with Trudeau as countries spar

  15-01-2019 23:34 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister should ‘respect the rule of law’, a spokeswoman said after Trudeau criticised a Canadian man’s death sentenceChina has expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with Justin Trudeau after he criticised the death sentence passed on a Canadian man convicted of drug trafficking, as the two countries continued to spar over detained citizens.The Canadian prime minister should “respect the rule of law, respect China’s judicial sovereignty, correct mista
  
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• Newcastle see off Blackburn with Joselu and Ayoze Pérez extra-time flourish

  15-01-2019 23:33 via theguardian.com
  In word and deed Rafael Benítez gives the impression the FA Cup is a competition Newcastle can do without. His players’ commitment to victory at Blackburn suggested otherwise. The Premier League strugglers lost a two goal lead and two central defenders to injury before securing their place in round four with a spirited, clinical performance at Ewood Park.Newcastle were taken to extra time – an exertion both managers would rather have avoided – by Tony Mowbray’s det
  
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• Theresa May suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her

  15-01-2019 23:28
  Theresa May has pledged to face down a vote of no confidence in her government, after her Brexit deal was shot down by MPs in the heaviest parliamentary defeat of the democratic era.On a day of extraordinary drama at Westminster, the House of Commons delivered a devastating verdict on the prime minister’s deal, voting against it by 432 to 202.The scale of defeat, by a majority of 230, was unprecedented in the modern parliamentary era, as ardent Brexiters such as Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris J
  
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• Wednesday's national newspaper front pages - Sky News

  15-01-2019 23:24 via news.sky.com
  Wednesday's national newspaper front pages  Sky NewsParliament acted in best interests of UK - EU has hard questions to answer, says DUP after May's crushing Brexit defeat  Belfast TelegraphJeremy Corbyn tables no confidence vote in government after Brexit humiliation  Mirror OnlineBrexit vote D-Day as May faces defeat and a vote of no confidence  Daily MailTheresa May to blame if we back second vote, say Labour  The TimesView full coverage on Go
  
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• EU leaders express dismay after May's Brexit defeat

  15-01-2019 23:22
  European Union leaders expressed dismay and regret on Tuesday after the British parliament rejected a Brexit divorce deal, saying they were stepping up emergency planning and warned London was running out of time.The EU's chief executive, the European Parliament Brexit negotiator and a host of prime ministers took to Twitter to call on London for ideas on what to do now to stop Britain crashing out of the bloc with no deal on March 29.European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits
  
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• El Chapo paid $100m bribe to former Mexican president Peña Nieto, witness says

  15-01-2019 23:04 via theguardian.com
  Alex Cifuentes, a close associate of the cartel chief, testified that he told US authorities about the alleged bribe in 2016
  A witness at the US trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has testified that he told US authorities the accused Mexican drug lord once paid a $100m bribe to former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.Alex Cifuentes, who has said he was a close associate of the Sinaloa cartel chief for years, discussed the alleged bribe under cross-examination
  
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• Donald Tusk says Brexit deal looks impossible

  15-01-2019 23:04
  European council president Donald Tusk called for Theresa May to urgently clarify her next move on Brexit.Donald Tusk has made a thinly veiled call for the UK to stay in the EU, suggesting the prime minister’s historic loss in parliament left a deal looking “impossible”.As the scale of the defeat was announced, the president of the European council called for Theresa May to urgently clarify her next move.
  
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• Junior high school students caught forming swastika with their bodies

  15-01-2019 23:01 via theguardian.com
  California youths traded racist and violent messages in county called ‘hotbed for white supremacists’A group of California junior high students were caught forming a swastika with their bodies on school grounds and exchanging racist and violent messages on a group chat, administrators said.The scandal at Matilija junior high school, which culminated in an emotional meeting with parents and school officials Monday night, has sparked intense debate in a region that has experienced a sh
  
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• After May's Massive Brexit Defeat, What The Hell Happens Next?

  15-01-2019 23:01
  In 2017 she lost her majority. In 2018, she lost her authority. Tonight, she
  
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• The Passage review – a vampire drama to sink your teeth into

  15-01-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The hunt is on to create a super-vaccine to save humanity from a vampiric vaccine-gone-wrong in this credible, pacy take on Justin Cronin’s bestsellerHow wise dear Blaise Pascal was when he wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” If only the good doctors in the opening scenes of this adaptation of Justin Cronin’s bestseller The Passage (Fox) had imbibed his words before they went spelunking for vampires.Tha
  
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• Brexit options: What potential outcomes remain?

  15-01-2019 23:00
  From no deal to the Canada or Norway proposals we look at where the UK could end up.
  
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• May should hold second Brexit referendum, Scotland's Sturgeon says

  15-01-2019 22:59
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May should suspend the Brexit process and hold another referendum, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday after May's Brexit deal was rejected by lawmakers.
  
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• Twitter adds chronological timeline button to its Android app - Engadget

  15-01-2019 22:58 via engadget.com
  Twitter adds chronological timeline button to its Android app  EngadgetTwitter's chronological timeline rolls out to Android app  Android PoliceTwitter brings the reverse-chronological feed to Android  The VergeTwitter for Android widely rolling out reverse-chronological timeline  9to5GoogleTwitter for Android can now show your timeline in chronological order  CrackBerry.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Macron - Britain would be biggest loser in case of no-deal Brexit

  15-01-2019 22:54
  French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Britain would be the biggest loser if it left the European Union without a deal, after the British parliament resoundingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce agreement.The first losers in this would be the British," Macron told mayors during a town hall meeting in Normandy."In that case, we'll look into it, maybe we'll make improvements on one or two things, but I don't really think so because we've reached the maximum of what we
  
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• Result of Brexit vote increases risk of UK crashing out of EU – Irish government

  15-01-2019 22:53
  The Irish government said the outcome adds to the uncertainty 'about the nature' of the UK leaving the European Union.
  
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• Factbox - How will the confidence vote in May's government work?

  15-01-2019 22:51
  British lawmakers will on Wednesday vote on whether they have confidence in the government, after Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal suffered a heavy defeat in parliament.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will open the debate on the motion at around 1300 GMT.May's government needs 318 votes to win the vote, as seven members of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party do not sit, four speakers do not vote and four MPs who help count votes, known as tellers, are not counted.
  
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• Grace Millane: Man denies murdering British backpacker

  15-01-2019 22:49 via bbc.co.uk
  A man accused of killing Grace Millane in New Zealand denies the charge.
  
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• Police forced to step in as tensions between Remainers and Brexiteers rise outside Parliament - Evening Standard

  15-01-2019 22:48 via standard.co.uk
  Police forced to step in as tensions between Remainers and Brexiteers rise outside Parliament  Evening StandardVote Leave LOSES bid to fight Brexit referendum spending watchdog in High Court  Mirror OnlineUNITY AT LAST! Brexiteers and Europhiles celebrate TOGETHER after May's Brexit deal defeat  Express.co.ukRemainers and Brexiteers united in 'despair' ahead of Meaningful vote  Evening StandardView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Pregnant MP reignites proxy voting debate

  15-01-2019 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Tulip Siddiq was due to have an elective Caesarean section, but delayed it so she could vote on Brexit.
  
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• Brexit bedlam: May's EU divorce deal crushed by 230 votes in parliament

  15-01-2019 22:45
  British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin on Tuesday, triggering political chaos that could lead to a disorderly exit from the EU or even to a reversal of the 2016 decision to leave.After parliament voted 432-202 against her deal, the worst defeat in modern British history, opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn promptly called a vote of no confidence in May's government, to be held at 1900 GMT on Wednesday.With the clock ticking down
  
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• Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian admit they’ve both taken ecstasy just 2 months after sister Kim’s drug con - The Sun

  15-01-2019 22:44 via thesun.co.uk
  Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian admit they’ve both taken ecstasy just 2 months after sister Kim’s drug con  The SunKim Kardashian would rather be stuck in a lift with Taylor Swift than Drake, so that’s awkward  Cosmopolitan.comKhloe Kardashian suffers wardrobe mishap in sexy Instagram snap | Daily Star  Daily StarKhloe and Kourtney Kardashian admit they've done ecstasy like Kim  Daily MailKim Kardashian baby: Kanye West's wife CONFIRMS four
  
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• How Labour’s no confidence motion will work

  15-01-2019 22:40
  The procedure is being used for the first time under the provisions of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.
  
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• PM vows to 'listen' to concerns after historic defeat on Brexit deal

  15-01-2019 22:39
  MPs have emphatically rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal - the biggest loss suffered by a government in 94 years.Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a no confidence motion in Theresa May's government, giving her less than 24 hours to fight for her job.The Withdrawal Agreement had been sealed with Brussels in November after two years of negotiation, and the historic vote now plunges the nature of the UK's departure from the European Union into doubt.
  
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• ‘Time is almost up,’ Europe warns the UK

  15-01-2019 22:37
  The European Commission's Jean-Claude Juncker said the risk of a disorderly Brexit had increased and urged Theresa May to make her intentions clear.
  
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• The Maybot, zen-like, finds comfort in the certainty of defeat | John Crace

  15-01-2019 22:36 via theguardian.com
  Her deal has been obliterated and the country is in chaos, yet May felt weirdly OKWe should never have doubted her. Even after her government had suffered the most humiliating defeat on record, there was only the slightest chink in the prime minister’s denial. After seizing the initiative by volunteering to accept a motion of no confidence the next day and insisting she would listen to parliament and reach out to other parties, Theresa May retreated into her shell. Something would happen s
  
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• The Maybot, zen-like, finds comfort in the certainty of defeat

  15-01-2019 22:36
  After seizing the initiative by volunteering to accept a motion of no confidence the next day and insisting she would listen to parliament and reach out to other parties, Theresa May retreated into her shell.Jeremy Corbyn duly tabled his vote of no confidence and the SNP’s Ian Blackford and Labour’s Yvette Cooper implored the prime minister to extend article 50.
  
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• Australia weather: record-breaking heatwave enters third day as temperatures soar

  15-01-2019 22:35 via theguardian.com
  Extreme weather fuelled by pool of hot air circulating over Australia’s inland prompts emergency warning and a code red in South AustraliaCoping with extreme heat: share your photos
  Temperatures are set to reach up to 48C in some parts of Australia as a record-breaking heatwave enters its third day, with health authorities warning of high ozone pollution in parts of western Sydney.All states and territories except Tasmania have centres where the temperature is due to stretch into the 40s.
  
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• Pregnant Labour MP Tulip Siddiq arrives at Brexit vote in WHEELCHAIR after delaying c-section - Mirror Online

  15-01-2019 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  Pregnant Labour MP Tulip Siddiq arrives at Brexit vote in WHEELCHAIR after delaying c-section  Mirror OnlinePregnant MP reignites proxy voting debate  BBC NewsTory accuses pregnant Labour MP over pledge to attend Brexit vote  The GuardianKemi Badenoch accuses Tulip Siddiq of delaying her caesarean to 'make a point' on Brexit  Daily MailLabour MP votes on Brexit vote in wheelchair having delayed caesarean  Metro.co.ukView full coverage on Google N
  
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• How does a no-confidence motion work, and what's next for May?

  15-01-2019 22:30
  After Theresa May’s huge defeat over her Brexit deal, parliament and the country face an uncertain next few days.On Wednesday, a no-confidence motion in the government will be debated.If the government loses there could be a general election.
  
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• Brexit vote: Remain and Leave's reaction shows enormity of PM's failure

  15-01-2019 22:30
  This was worse than even the government feared.Theresa May's indefatigability, however, remains apparently undimmed.Instead, she essentially invited the Opposition to table a motion of no confidence against her own government.
  
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• Brexit: MPs vote 'no' to Theresa May's deal

  15-01-2019 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  The biggest ever government defeat in history sees Theresa May lose the vote by 432 to 202.
  
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• How did your MP vote on May's Brexit deal?

  15-01-2019 22:11 via theguardian.com
  MPs rejected the prime minister’s withdrawal agreement with the EU by a margin of 230 votes, prompting a motion of no confidence from Jeremy Corbyn. Find out how your MP voted in the historic voteBrexit vote – live updates and reaction Continue reading...
  
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• How did each MP vote on May's Brexit deal?

  15-01-2019 22:11
  In order to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, a backstop arrangement that keeps the UK in the customs union and requires Northern Ireland to follow single market rules would prevail until a free-trade agreement is reached that avoids such a frontier.The UK and EU negotiators have agreed the former should honour those commitments it made while a member of the bloc – finally settling on a figure of £39bn.The deal would secure a status quo transition period to negotiate the
  
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• Crushing defeat for PM must pave way for second EU referendum, Sturgeon demands

  15-01-2019 22:08
  Nicola Sturgeon said a fresh vote on the matter was now the 'only credible option'.
  
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• Corbyn and Labour must now go hell for leather for another referendum | Polly Toynbee

  15-01-2019 22:05 via theguardian.com
  Until now, the left’s voice has been missing. This is the moment when the Labour leader can change hearts and mindsAt last! Labour’s hour has come. Until now, Labour’s voice has been almost unheard in the greatest debate of our time. Jeremy Corbyn has now been obliged to call a vote of no confidence in a government whose policy has crashed in ignominy. No one predicted the monumental, breathtaking scale of this.Theresa May and her government look set to survive, as Jacob Rees-M
  
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• Sterling bounces on resounding defeat for May’s Brexit deal - Financial Times

  15-01-2019 22:04 via ft.com
  Sterling bounces on resounding defeat for May’s Brexit deal  Financial TimesPound volatile as Brexit uncertainty drags after May defeat  Sky NewsPound to euro exchange rate: How will crunch Brexit vote affect sterling today?  ExpressBrexit Knocks the Wind Out of the U.K. Economy  BloombergPound sterling plummets then rallies as Commons overwhelmingly rejects Theresa May's Brexit deal  The IndependentView full coverage on Google News
  
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• The Guardian view on May’s Brexit deal: it’s over, but what’s next? | Editorial

  15-01-2019 22:01 via theguardian.com
  The PM leads a party that is divided and a country stockpiling food and medicines as if preparing for war. She needs to humbly reach out to her opponents and find a way to prevent Britain crashing out of the EU in weeksThe overwhelming and decisive rejection by MPs of Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement to leave the European Union is a shattering blow to the authority of the prime minister. She has spent two years negotiating a deal, which in substance was the opposite of what she said she
  
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• 10-year challenge: how did Donald Trump's top team look a decade ago?

  15-01-2019 21:59 via theguardian.com
  Kellyanne Conway was a calendar model, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were newlyweds and Mick Mulvaney was planning to open a Mexican restaurantIt’s not clear who started it, or why the rather banal social media challenge has taken off , but the last two days has seen Facebook, Instagram and Twitter awash with people partaking in the #10yearchallenge, by posting photos of themselves from 2009. Everyone from Cardi B to the hosts of Fox & Friends have been getting involved.Sadly no senio
  
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• Stand aside and make way for our deal, Britain's Labour tells May

  15-01-2019 21:57
  Britain's main opposition Labour Party said on Tuesday it was pressing for a new national election because its alternative plan for leaving the European Union was the only one that could pass through parliament and unite the country.A Labour spokesman also said the party believed that a no confidence motion, which it launched on Tuesday, could happen "more than once", suggesting that if it lost the vote against the government on Wednesday, it could try again.
  
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• Parliament acted in UK’s best interests by spurning Brexit deal, DUP leader says

  15-01-2019 21:57
  Arlene Foster has urged Prime Minister Theresa May to go back to EU leaders and renegotiate.
  
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• Upskirting to be crime after Lords back bill

  15-01-2019 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman took her campaign to MPs after a man took pictures of her at a gig in London's Hyde Park.
  
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• Cricket’s vices are no more common – it’s just harder to keep them secret | Andy Bull

  15-01-2019 21:56 via theguardian.com
  Players have been fighting, drinking and sleeping around for as long as they’ve been batting, bowling and catching but these days you can guarantee everyone will know about itWhenever David Green belched he would say “Boycott!” and since he belched a lot “Boycott” was probably one of the first few words I ever heard him say, followed, in short order, by a philippic against “whichever fucker” had forgotten to replace the cellophane wrap on the tray of san
  
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• 'We are staring down the barrel': reactions to May's Brexit deal defeat

  15-01-2019 21:54
  European Union leaders said they would step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit and British business groups reacted with alarm after British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin on Tuesday.
  
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• What were the previous biggest government defeats in the House of Commons?

  15-01-2019 21:51
  Until now, all the biggest defeats had taken place under Labour administrations.
  
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