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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Wednesday, March 13th, and this is your FT news briefing.

This is an issue of grave importance for the future of our country.

That's Prime Minister Theresa May speaking in Parliament after her revised Brexit deal failed.

We'll have the F.T.'s Jim Picard explain what that means.

Also today, the FAA comes under huge pressure to ground Boeing aircraft.

Royal Dutch Shell says it's aiming to become the largest electricity company in the world by the 2030s,

and the FBI charges prominent financiers and celebrities for using

cash bribes to bypass the admissions process at prominent American colleges.

Then the FT's Angela Rival explains how BP is saying one thing but doing another

when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. I'm Eric Krupke and here's the

news you need to start your day. This is Jim Pickard, chief political

correspondent in London, and we've just emerged from the House of Commons

where Theresa May has been defeated comprehensively once again on her Brexit deal.

The eyes to the right, 242, the nose to the left 391.

I would say the mood in the House of Commons is pretty downbeat even among the people

who have defeated the Prime Minister today there's no great sense of jubilation because they don't know what's going to happen next.

So on the one side you have the people who vote against Theresa

May because they want a second referendum and they still have no guarantee that that's going to happen.

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