'Theresa May Will Lose Tonight' - Liz Kendall

By Tino Okere

Theresa May (Source: AP: Alastair Grant)

In what has been dubbed 'the meaningful vote', Members of Parliament (MPs) will this evening vote FOR or AGAINST Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.

Statistics from Sky News Analysis states that 192 of Conservative MPs indicated that they will vote for Mrs. May's deal but the rest 111 of her MPs would vote against it. Other MPs voting against are 10 of the Democratic Unionist Party, 248 from the Labour Party, 35 of the Scottish National Party, 11 Liberal Democrats, one from the Green and four of the Plaid Cymru. Others expected to vote for the deal are three rebel Labour MPs and three Independent, giving a defeat gap of 227 against Theresa May. 

The hugely resilient Prime Minister is not thought to resign after the imminent defeat with some political analysts saying she doesn't draw her strength form the parliamentarians but from the 'will of the British public who voted to leave the European Union'. 

On the brink of defeat, Theresa May this afternoon in Parliament asked MPs to, "give this deal a second look" but Labour MP Liz Kendall had earlier indicated that the EU and Brexit are "not the answers to people's genuine problems' but a second referendum is the answer.

Liz Kendall (Source: AP)

"The people's vote may be the only way out of the logjam because what is on offer now is completely different from what people voted for in the referendum," she said during an interview with Sky News. 

"You can't believe that what people are being offered in Brexit is the same thing they were promised by the leave campaign in 2016...it's completely different. We're not gaining greater sovereignty, we are actually giving it up, we're not getting billions (of Pounds) more in the National Health Service - we're actually giving that up so when the facts change, we have to give it back to the people", she added.

Kendall intimated that the Prime Minister was to lose the vote today. 

Political analysts and politicians alike feel that crucial legally binding assurances like Article 50 have not been met which are crucial if Brexit is to work in favour of the United Kingdom.