The UK House of Commons has rejected all eight potential Brexit scenarios put to it in a series of ‘indicative votes’ aimed at finding a way forward on Brexit.

The majority of the votes were heavily defeated.

Two of the votes came close to passing. These were the proposal for a customs union and the proposal for a "confirmatory vote.”

The Customs union motion was defeated by 273 votes to 264.

The motion calling for the UK People to be offered a “confirmatory vote” on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement was defeated by 295 votes to 268.

The results in full are available below.

Step down

It comes after the UK Prime Minister told Conservative MPs that she will quit if the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is passed by the House of Commons.

Theresa May made the pledge in a speech to the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs.

Addressing the committee she said: "I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to secure a smooth and orderly Brexit."

She did not offer a clear timetable, but she reportedly gave a sense that she would be stepping down "reasonably soon" and acknowledged she had made "some mistakes" in the process up to now.

Theresa May’s pledge to Tory MPs to stand down if they vote for her deal shows once and for all that her chaotic Brexit negotiations have been about party management, not principles or the public interest.

A change of government can't be a Tory stitch-up, the people must decide.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) March 27, 2019

It means that if the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is passed, Mrs May will not lead the next phase of negotiations, which will establish the UKs future trading relationship with the EU.

Last Year, Mrs May told the same Tory committee that she would not lead the party into the 2022 general election.

The promise is credited with helping her survive a confidence vote in the House of Commons last December.

If Brexit ends up being forced through on the basis of a deal no one supports - indeed a deal so bad that the PM has to promise to resign to get it through - it will make an already bad project even worse.

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) March 27, 2019

Mrs May plans to bring the agreement back for a third meaningful vote in the coming days – however, House Speaker John Bercow has warned he will only allow the vote to go ahead if what is on offer is “substantially” different to the first two attempts.

Leading Tory Brexiteers Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson and William Hague yesterday indicated that their opposition to the deal may be softening- and Mrs May’s offer could convince more to follow suit.

Backstop

However, this evening, the DUP confirmed that it will not support the agreement when it comes to a third vote.

In a statement, the party said the changes it had sought to the backstop have not been secured and it believes there is a “remaining and ongoing strategic risk that Northern Ireland would be trapped in backstop arrangements at the end of the implementation period.”

“The backstop if operational has the potential to create an internal trade border within the United Kingdom and would cut us off from our main internal market, being Great Britain,” it said.

It said the backstop “poses an unacceptable threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom and will inevitably limit the United Kingdom’s ability to negotiate on the type of future relationship with the EU.”

DUP leader Arlene Foster at the Irish Goverment residence in Belfast, 08-02-2019. Image: Liam McBurney/PA Wire/PA Images

After the announcement, party leader Arlene Foster said the backstop would “cause damage to the UK.”

“What we can’t agree to is something that threatens the union,” she said.

“Which has a strategic risk to the union because for us in the DUP, the union will always come first.

“That has been the issue right from the beginning of all of this.”

'Indicative votes'

Breaking: first images of tonight's #indicativevotes papers ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/XVTB0jJQKm

— Commons Press Office (@HoCPress) March 27, 2019

The results of this evening's indicative votes were:

• Leave the EU without a deal on April 12th: Defeated by 400 votes to 160.
• Norway + model - remain in the Single Market with a customs arrangement and membership of the European Free Trade Association: Defeated by 283 to 188.
• Norway model without a customs union: Defeated by 377 to 65. 
• Leave the EU with a UK-wide customs union: Defeated by 272 to 264.
• Permanent customs union, including alignment with single market on future EU rights and regulations: Defeated by 307 to 236.
• Revoke Article 50 if no-deal Brexit is not explicitly approved by MPs a day before the UK is due to leave: Defeated by 293 to 184.
• A "confirmatory" second referendum in which UK citizens will be asked to choose between any withdrawal agreement and remaining in the EU:  Defeated by 295 to 268. 
• If no withdrawal agreement agreed, seek a "standstill" agreement with the EU while negotiating trade deal: Defeated by 422 to 139.

Border

Earlier, the Taoiseach again warned that Northern Ireland will have to be treated differently to Britain if a hard border is to be avoided under a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.

Leo Varadkar said MPs in London had misrepresented Ireland's position on what would happen if the UK crashed out of the EU without a deal.

“Let there be no doubt, in this house or in Westminster, when I talk about arrangements I mean treating Northern Ireland differently from the rest of the United Kingdom," he said.

“It is the UK Government’s proposal to do exactly that – not in four or five year’s time if the backstop ever has to be implemented, but in a few weeks time in the event of no deal.”