Kent MPs remain divided over Brexit as questions about the government’s deal were left unresolved after a series of votes in the Commons.

MPs rejected eight proposals which were designed to see if a consensus could be built around the UK's terms of departure from the EU.

A commitment by the Prime Minister to stand aside once the first phase of Brexit had been accomplished won over two of the county’s MPs who previously opposed the deal.

Dover MP Charlie Elphicke and Gillingham MP Rehman Chishti both declared they were prepared to back the plan.

But there was no sign of the deadlock being broken.

Meanwhile, Ashford MP Damian Green said it would be extraordinary if the Speaker of the House John Bercow refused to allow the deal to be presented to parliament for a third time.

“It would be very peculiar for the government to say ‘look this is the most important issue to come before Parliament for decades and we have something that will allow it to move on’ for it to be stopped by House of Commons procedure.”

On the continued opposition of some MPs to the deal, he said: “I think that it is interesting to observe that those who has spent a lifetime campaigning for Brexit, when it is about to happen, they become a problem - it is extraordinary.”

“I hope we can move on and get past this phase because the country just wants nice to get on with it.”

But he would not be drawn on when the deal could come forward.

Speaking on Sky News last night, he said: “I think it would be entirely sensible for the government to wait until it knows it can get it through.”

The South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, a member of the Eurosceptic ERG group, mocked the debate and vote on eight different options.

He tweeted: “After a day of pointless parlour games & setting aside all @HouseofCommons usual standing orders & precedents relating to voting - nothing passes.

"And we have to go through the whole charade again on Monday 1st April.

"I suppose April Fools’ Day is appropriate.”

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