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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, March 14th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today, British MPs vote to take a no-deal Brexit off the table.

The US spoused to international pressure on the

safety of the Boeing 737 Max plane and former Trump campaign chair

Paul Manifort is charged in even more financial crimes. Then the F.T.'s Rochelle Toplensky explains why Spotify

filed an antitrust complaint against Apple.

I'm Eric Krupky and here's the news you need to start your day.

This is Jim Pickard, the chief political correspondent in London.

The essence of what happened on Wednesday night was that there was supposed to be a vote on Theresa May's motion

to take no-deal Brexit off the table but would have kept open the option of no-deal in the future. But what happened was a sort of rebel amendment

from backbenchers saying that no deal should be taken off the table forever

got passed by just four votes. So Thursday evening's vote is fairly important

because it's a vote on whether Article 50 which is the mechanism for leaving the

EU will be extended by two or three months but the reason

it's going to be quite interesting is that there's going to be attempts by backbench MPs

to sort of rest control even further from the government by trying to force something called indicative votes

which would be a way for various options to be put to MPs so for example a second referendum or maybe a kind of Norway style soft Brexit or a no-deal Brexit.

And you could then sort of line up these options and you could gauge what the support is among 650 MPs of the House of Commons

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