A series of votes in the U.K. Parliament on Wednesday evening showed that political deadlock over Brexit is as strong as ever. Here's the lowdown on what just happened and what could happen next.
Members of Parliament voted on a range of options put forward by lawmakers on Brexit and what relationship the U.K. should have with the EU once it leaves the bloc. The results showed that there is no majority support for any of the eight alternative proposals that were voted on, however.
MPs did not vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal which has already been rejected twice by Parliament. "While none of the eight Brexit options won a majority in the U.K. parliament tonight, the 'indicative votes' nonetheless yielded a few clear insights," Kallum Pickering, senior economist at Berenberg Bank, said in a note Wednesday night after the votes.
As Berenberg's Pickering noted,"the calculus may change for a significant number of MPs so that a majority in favor of one of the options that almost made it tonight could emerge. 320 votes guarantees a majority in the House of Commons." Faced with the prospect of a delayed departure, some Brexiteers agreed Wednesday to back May's deal if a third vote was held. But it's nowhere near certain that she would get the support the deal needs to get through Parliament, particularly after the DUP said again that it would not support it.
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