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Realistic, never mind theoret theoretical, does he have a realistic chance of getting the deal through which would mean defeating the amendment? >> it is genuinely too close to call, i mean, it really, really is looking at the numbers but they've all been shifting within the last half hour. last night, we saw him get 500 votes, he needs 320, we have a tweet from the chairman of the europe mean union, that is the hardline, and many of them, some of them administered in boris johnson's government, in the last half hour, we just tweeted steve baker saying, one for boris' deal in the national inte...

In what, three or four -- oh, there we go. >> off to the races. yes. stop brexit, there we go. we'll have more of our special parliamentary coverage in just a moment. by the way, we'll talk about whoever that chap is and why he keeps shouting. we'll talk about the amendment that's about to happen, after the break. s, this, and even this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans now cleans itself.

Year. this brings the hurdle up in a different way, and it just makes it much harder for him to stick to his word. this is perhaps the worst nightmare in a way, base it clouds the issue that he had managed to reduce down to simple deal or no deal motions today. >> and he and his supporters would call this an insurance policy to absolutely guarantee that britain can't brush out without a deal, even though it would be contingent on eu extending in a fashion that mirrors the amendment, but those with boris johnson call this a wrecking ball because it removes that binary choice. >> it hasn't calle...

Misinformation and misunderstanding, really, so it was hardly democratic. >> prime minister boris johnson received a blow to his latest attempt to pass a deal, but he still has a chance to push his bill through. here's what happened. members of parliament did not vote on brexit deal itself, but for the letwin amendment, which requires the prime minister seeks a delay from the european union. now let's go to the aforementioned steve patterson in london, covering this all day. run us through what happened here and where does parliament go next? >> reporter: as for what happened, you basically me...

No on big tobacco. no on prop c. breaking in london. another devastating loss for prime minister boris johnson in his brexit crusade. 322 members of parliament stood in favor of the letwin amendment, effectively delaying a vote on the latest brexit plan. prime minister boris johnson said he will put a bill up for a vote next week to avoid another delay. he said he will not ask for an