<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May" id="mwAYI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>'s UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Government_defeats_in_the_House_of_Commons_(1945–present)" id="mwAYM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of Government defeats in the House of Commons (1945–present)">modern times</a>, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_withdrawal_agreement" id="mwAYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brexit withdrawal agreement">European Union withdrawal agreement</a>, giving her opponents a majority of 230.<sup about="#mwt132" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_15#cite_note-23" id="mwAYU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAYY">[23]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"><cite about="#mwt129" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCIk"><a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46885828" id="mwCIo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Brexit: Theresa May's deal is voted down in historic Commons defeat"</a>. <i id="mwCIs">BBC News</i>. 15 January 2019<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCIw">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCI0">2019-01-17</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt129" class="Z3988" id="mwCI4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Brexit%3A+Theresa+May%27s+deal+is+voted+down+in+historic+Commons+defeat&amp;rft.date=2019-01-15&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-politics-46885828&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+15"></span></span>