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“Brextinct”, is its headline and they have pasted May’s face onto a dodo. Presumably the headline intends to speak to the prime minister’s tenure as much as her deal. The Sun (@TheSun) Tomorrow's front page: Theresa May's EU deal is dead after she suffered the largest Commons defeat in history https://t.co/v42ielZThE pic.twitter.com/T7o7VoQKgS January 15, 2019 The Guardian features a rare picture of the No lobby, which is packed with MPs walking through it to vote against May’s Brexit deal. The headline is “May suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her” and the paper paints a picture of how the remarkable day unfolded, saying: “On a day of extraordinary drama at Westminster, the House of Commons delivered a devastating verdict on May’s deal, voting against it by 432 to 202. The scale of the defeat, by a majority of 230, was unprecedented in the modern parliamentary era and saw ardent Brexiters such as Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson walk through a packed division lobby cheek-by-jowl with passionate remainers.” (@guardian) The Guardian front page, Wednesday 16 January 2019: May suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her pic.twitter.com/CFcSyQeL4k January 15, 2019 The Daily Mirror focuses on the no-confidence motion launched by Jeremy Corbyn, with the splash: “No deal, no hope, no clue, no confidence.” Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) Wednesday’s Daily MIRROR: “No deal.. No hope.. No clue.. No confidence “ #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/Lf5tUGh3jU January 15, 2019 “A complete humiliation,” says the Telegraph, which reports her Brexit deal has “turned to dust”. (@Telegraph) The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph 'A complete humiliation' #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/KiMQDCy2Xa January 15, 2019 “May suffers historic defeat,” is the Times’ headline. But the paper, which is pro-Brexit, is not angry with May, whom the paper says “valiantly fought for her deal”. Now it’s time for the MPs to do their duty and work with Theresa May for a deal that satisfies the 17.4m who voted Brexit … Don’t fail us!” (@Daily_Express) After a day of Brexit chaos, here's tomorrow's Daily Express front page. pic.twitter.com/NknHcyHzYQ January 15, 2019 Even the Daily Mail, which is usually incredibly supportive of the prime minister, can only muster: “Fighting for her life”. Another defeat could trigger an election and put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.” Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) Wednesday’s Daily MAIL: “Fighting For Her Life” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/1UNiCOj8dC January 15, 2019 The Financial Times’ headline is “May’s Brexit deal crushed by Commons” and its story tries to convey the scale of the defeat, saying “Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the product of two years of torturous negotiations in Brussels, was last night overwhelmingly rejected by the House of Commons.” (@FinancialTimes) Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Wednesday 16 January https://t.co/UOUnhWap6i pic.twitter.com/xYLndUCO3H January 15, 2019 The i calls the day’s events a “historic humiliation”, pointing out that Tory backbenchers voted “six to one against her Brexit deal” and the Scotsman runs the simple headline “Crushed”.

The debate about whether Jeremy Corbyn called the prime minister a "stupid woman" or said "stupid people" in the Commons yesterday continues on most of the front pages. The Daily Mail and the Daily Express enlist the help of lip-reading specialists who each deliver the same damning verdict. Mr Corbyn's "forward lip movement", they claim, could only have been the result of pronouncing a word beginning with the letter "W" - casting doubt on what the Mail calls his "brazen" denials. "Panto politics" is the headline on the front page of the i, which says the drama will have led to consternation among the public, coming at a time when Parliament is faced with one of the biggest decisions on the fate of the country since World War Two. The Daily Telegraph notes that the row occupied more parliamentary time than Prime Minister's Questions and laments that it overshadowed the long-awaited publication of the government's Immigration White Paper, a key part of its post-Brexit planning. "A pipsqueak opposition leader, a stubborn prime minister, a paralysed government and an unruly parliament are overseeing the most momentous decision in recent British history. The Sun criticises the EU's proposals for a structured no-deal Brexit as a "barrage of punitive threats" issued to British tourists, ex-pats and businesses. "All trust is gone," says the paper, concluding that we must be ready for Brexit on March 29th without a deal. HuffPost UK says it has obtained data which shows the government has spent £1.4 billion outsourcing contracts linked to the roll out of Universal Credit and other welfare reforms, since 2012. The Times reports that The British Institute of Verbatim Reporters has listed the words that floored a good many of us in 2018.

The warning from the Bank of England governor Mark Carney about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit is all over Thursday’s front pages, with papers showing their Brexit colours in their reporting of the news. Economic forecasts strike blow to Theresa May's Brexit deal Read more The Telegraph has labelled Carney’s announcement “doomsday analysis”, and its story says: “Mark Carney has been accused of undermining the Bank of England’s ‘independence and credibility’ after publishing an analysis of the economic impacts of no deal so bleak it has been dubbed ‘project hysteria’.” The source of this “Project Hysteria” line is staunch Eurosceptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. (@Telegraph) The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph 'Carney unleashes Project Hysteria' #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/VYKt7bUm2W November 28, 2018 The Daily Express also has Rees-Mogg’s quote in its splash: “Bank boss Carney’s ‘Project Hysteria’” and showed its leanings by leading not with the straight news of Carney’s comments but with the fact he “faced a furious backlash”. “MPs tore into the governor’s latest bleak prognosis, accusing him of meddling in politics by attempting to stoke up Project Fear once again,” said the paper The Sun runs the punny headline “Carnage”, under a picture of Carney’s face, leading with the impact of a “brutal no deal Brexit” on house prices, which Carney warned could crash by 30%. The Sun (@TheSun) Tomorrow's front page: House prices would plunge by 30% as Britain falls into recession in brutal No Deal Brexit, Bank of England warns https://t.co/qO0whglB5h pic.twitter.com/JuhTnk5S4l November 28, 2018 The Daily Mail ignores Carney’s comments, focusing instead on news that reflects more favourably on the PM. Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) Thursday’s Daily MAIL: “Key Cabinet Brexiteer: I’m Backing May’s Deal” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/BYkTHZjJxg November 28, 2018 The Guardian plays it straight: “Warnings over economy deal blow to May’s Brexit strategy”, citing the Bank of England’s warning and the “official Whitehall analysis [which] concluded that in all Brexit scenarios, including May’s final deal, the UK would be worse off”. (@guardian) Guardian front page, Thursday 29 November 2018: Warnings over economy deal blow to May's Brexit strategy pic.twitter.com/EDqFU5jzFc November 28, 2018 The Times follows a similar vein, and reports Carney’s comments: “No-deal Brexit ‘would be worst crash since 1930s’”. Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) Thursday’s TIMES: “No-deal Brexit ‘would be worst crash since 1930s’ “ #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/MtrN8nXpQz November 28, 2018 The FT says “May forced to concede all Brexit roads will lead to a poorer Britain”. The i also lays things out pretty straight “Bank warns of worst economic slump since second world war”, adding “Labour now warming to a second referendum”. Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) Thursday’s Daily MIRROR: “May’s Deal Will Cost Us £100 Billion” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/v0lrtNQiMj November 28, 2018