EU leaders express dismay after May's Brexit defeat
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-vote-tusk/eu-leaders-express-dismay-after-mays-brexit-defeat-idUSKCN1P92LP
European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, suggested the only real solution was for Britain to stay in the EU after British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin of 432 to 202.
“If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?” Tusk tweeted after the vote.
Updates as MPs reject withdrawal deal
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/46874049
Macron: 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 could do with the deal."
Guy Verhofstadt, chief Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament, tells the BBC that British political parties must put aside their differences for the good of the UK and EU.
"There is a need for cross-party cooperation so that the national interest of Britain and in the interest of the European Union prevails. And that is not the case today," he says.
He says MPs must make clear what withdrawal deal they could support.
"The House of Commons has said that they don't want this deal. I want to know what deal the House of Commons really wants. Because otherwise you cannot make an agreement."