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| Theresa May survives confidence vote | Theresa May survives confidence vote |
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| Prime Minister Theresa May has won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party by 200 to 117. | Prime Minister Theresa May has won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party by 200 to 117. |
| Mrs May is now immune from a leadership challenge for a year. | |
| Speaking in Downing Street, she vowed to deliver the Brexit "that people voted for". | |
| She said she had listened to the concerns of MPs who voted against her and would be fighting for changes to her Brexit deal at an EU summit on Thursday. | |
| Mrs May won the confidence vote with a majority of 83, with 63% of Conservative MPs backing her and 37% voting against her. | |
| The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said the result was "not at all comfortable" for the prime minister and a "real blow" to her authority. | |
| The confidence vote was triggered by 48 of her MPs angry at her Brexit policy, which they say betrays the 2016 referendum result. | |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg, who led calls for the confidence vote, said it was a "terrible result for the prime minister" and called on her to resign. | Jacob Rees-Mogg, who led calls for the confidence vote, said it was a "terrible result for the prime minister" and called on her to resign. |
| Cabinet minister Chris Grayling said: "This has hardly been a joyful day for the Conservative Party but it has voted very comfortably that it wants her to stay, wants her to take us through Brexit." | |
| The result was greeted by cheers and applause from Tory MPs as it was announced by backbench Tory chairman Sir Graham Brady. | |
| The prime minister still faces a battle to get the Brexit deal she agreed with the EU through the UK Parliament, with all opposition parties and, clearly, dozens of her own MPs against it. | |
| Labour frontbencher Rebecca Long-Bailey said: "This deal that she has on the table will not get through Parliament." | |
| She said Labour would table a no-confidence motion that all MPs - not just Conservatives - will be able to vote in when they felt they had a chance of winning it and forcing a general election. | |
| DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said his party, which helps keep Mrs May in power, was still concerned about the Irish backstop plan, which most MPs were against. | |
| "I don't think this vote really changes anything very much in terms of the arithmetic." | |
| But he said the DUP would not support a no-confidence motion in Parliament at this stage. | |
| The SNP's Stephen Gethins urged Labour to table a vote of no confidence in Mrs May, accusing the government of "playing games with people's lives". | |
| Mrs May earlier vowed to fight on to deliver her Brexit deal, which she argues is the only option for leaving the EU in an orderly way on 29 March. | |
| But in a last-minute pitch to her MPs before the vote she promised to stand down as leader before the next scheduled election in 2022. | |
| If she had lost the confidence vote Mrs May would have been forced to stand down as Conservative Party leader, and then as prime minister. | |
| But she is now expected to travel to a summit in Brussels on Thursday to continue trying to persuade EU leaders to change the deal - they have previously said it can not be renegotiated. |