POLITICIANS need to share exactly what they don’t like in Theresa May’s Brexit deal, claims one Cumbrian MP.

In the aftermath of Wednesday’s no confidence vote in the Government, triggered by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Penrith and the Border MP Rory Stewart has urged parliament to work together to agree a smart, well-negotiated exit from the EU.

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“You can’t negotiate a treaty with 650 individual MPs, all with different views,” he told Sky News this week.

“The next step is to try to get those MPs that voted against us [on Tuesday] to be clear about what exactly in the deal they don’t like.

“So, we’ve got maybe 150 going for a second referendum, maybe 80 going for a no deal at all.

“That leaves about 400 MPs who should be talking about the details of a deal and about 200 of them haven’t said what they want.”

Mr Stewart was also quizzed about the Prime Minister reaching out to other parties for talks on a Brexit Plan B, a move later confirmed by Mrs May on Wednesday night.

He added: “I think it would be very, very helpful, it would actually help the whole negotiation of the Prime Minister and everybody and, indeed, the European Union, if people like Jeremy Corbyn were at least explicit: ‘these are the three changes we want to the deal, if we got this deal we’d vote for it’.

“That would suddenly put them in a very powerful position.”

Mr Stewart also dismissed an alternative plan from the European Union.

“I think there is a problem when people talk about a Plan B, they somehow assume that there could be an alternative 500-page deal negotiated over two years with the EU is sitting in some bottom drawer that you can pull out.

“This is the only deal that the other 27 member states have signed up to and Europe’s been very clear about this,” he insisted.

“So this isn’t just about a majority in parliament, it’s also about getting those 27 member states on side, and the reason why the Prime Minister is trying to be realistic about that, is yes, there could be some small variation, if there was a clear majority in parliament.

“But basically, the European Union is not about to produce from its back pocket its own Plan B.”

Following the no confidence vote result, in which Mrs May survived an attempt to oust her on Wednesday by a margin of 325 to 305, the PM said she and senior Cabinet ministers will meet other party representatives in a bid to find a consensus to break the parliamentary deadlock.

The move came after the PM suffered a crushing defeat on Tuesday, when MPs voted overwhelmingly against her Brexit deal.

House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom added on Thursday that a statement and motion on the Government’s next Brexit steps will be made on Monday.

A full day of debate will then be held in Parliament on Tuesday, January 29.