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'Park the unicorns,' Emily Maitlis tells Matt Hancock

As Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal is rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history - Newsnight asks Health Secretary Matt Hancock how the EU might be able to appease all those who rejected it.

MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU on 29 March.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election.

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