Speaking immediately after the votes, the Prime Minister said: "The House has today provided a clear majority against leaving without a deal.

"However I will repeat what I have said before. These are about the choices that this House faces.

"The legal default in UK and EU law remains that the UK will leave the EU without a deal unless something else is agreed.

"The onus is now on every one of us in this House to find out what that is. The options before us are the same as they always have been.

"We could leave with the deal this Government has negotiated over the past two years. We could leave with a deal we have negotiated but subject to a second referendum but that would risk no Brexit at all, damaging the fragile trust between the British public and the members of this House.

"We could seek to negotiate a different deal, however, the EU has been clear the deal on the table is indeed the only deal available.

"I also confirmed last night that of the House declined to approve leaving without a deal on the 29th March 2019 the Government would bring forward a motion on whether the House supports seeking to agree an extension to Article 50 with the EU which is the logical consequence of the votes over the past two days in this House."

Mrs May said that vote would now go ahead.