Heather Stewart and Jessica Elgot
Fri 29 Mar 2019 14.55 EDT

Theresa May hopes to bring her Brexit deal back to parliament again next week after it was rejected for a third time by MPs – and appears poised to trigger a general election if parliament fails to agree a way forward.

May hints at possible need for election, saying MPs 'reaching limits' of Brexit process - live news
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Despite the embattled prime minister’s dramatic promise on Wednesday that she would hand over the keys to 10 Downing Street if her Tory colleagues backed the withdrawal agreement, parliament voted against it on Friday, by 344 to 286.

The Commons vote was held on the day when Britain was meant to be leaving the European Union, and with Parliament Square outside overflowing with raucous pro-Brexit protesters.

A string of leave-supporting Conservative backbenchers who had twice rejected the deal, including Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, switched sides to support the agreement. But with Labour unwilling to shift its position, and the Democratic Unionist party’s 10 MPs implacably opposed, it was not enough to secure a majority for May ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/29/mps-reject-theresa-mays-brexit-deal-third-time

... but someone compared May to the Black Knight in Monty Python.

My dialogue

Parliament: "You are indeed brave Mrs. May May but the fight is ours"
May: "It's just a flesh wound."

William James, Kylie MacLellan, Elizabeth Piper

... The decision to reject a stripped-down version of May’s divorce deal has left it totally unclear how, when or even whether Britain will leave the EU, and plunges the three-year Brexit crisis to a deeper level of uncertainty.

“I fear we are reaching the limits of this process in this House,” May told parliament after the defeat. “The implications of the House’s decision are grave.”

Within minutes of the vote, European Council President and summit chair Donald Tusk said EU leaders would meet on April 10 to discuss Britain’s departure from the bloc.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu/death-knell-for-mays-brexit-deal-as-lawmakers-reject-it-by-286-to-344-idUSKCN1RA0SW

March 29, 2019, 6:50 AM EDT / Updated March 29, 2019, 12:19 PM EDT
By Alexander Smith

... The result means the new Brexit deadline is April 12. However, moments after the vote, European Council President Donald Tusk announced he had called a summit on April 10.

This could mean the E.U. is prepared to give another extension, raising the possibility that the U.K. will participate in European elections. Anti-Brexit campaigners hope this might increase the chances of a less-extreme departure from the E.U., a second referendum or even no Brexit at all.

After the vote, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, urged her to resign and call an election.

"This deal has to change, there has to be an alternative found," he said. "If the prime minister can't accept that then she must go" ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/britain-s-brexit-was-meant-happen-today-instead-everyone-s-n988731