In dramatic scenes last night The House of Commons voted by 328 to 301 to take control of the agenda, allowing them to bring forward a bill requesting a Brexit delay.

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has fought back by saying he will call a general election if he is forced to request an extension to the 31 October deadline. MPs will now vote on the Brexit delay bill. If it passes, the vote on whether to hold an election will follow.

But unless two thirds of MPs back the move for an election it cannot be called due to the Fixed Terms Parliament Act. The labour Party has been calling for a General Election for weeks but it now appears they will back down from the move leading to an even greater stalemate.

This is the first time since William Pitt the Younger in the 18th Century that a Prime Minister lost his first vote in Parliament.

Wednesday in the Commons will also see Chancellor Sajid Javid outline the government’s spending plans, with the health service, education and the police expected to fare well.

Speaking late on Tuesday to a packed House of Commons, the prime minister said the MPs’ bill would “hand control” of Brexit negotiations to the EU and bring “more dither, more delay, more confusion”.

He told MPs he had no choice but to press ahead with efforts to call an October election, adding: “The people of this country will have to choose!”

Watch below as Jacob Rees Mogg delivers one of the Commons most barn storming speeches ever seen:

The other big story of the night was the ruthless, but many would say welcome decision, by the Tories to purge the party of the 21 MPs who voted against the Government. On Newsnight last night Ken Clarke, the former chancellor and now father of the house, also spoke out. He was one of the 21 who lost the whip last night, and he said he did not know if he would even vote Conservative at the next election. He stated:

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