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LONDON, March 29-- British lawmakers on Friday voted to reject Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, which has already been rejected twice in Parliament since January. MPs voted 286 to 344 to turn down the Withdrawal Agreement and delay Brexit to May 22. May said after the vote that the implications of the outcome are "grave." "I fear we are reaching the limits of this process in this House," the prime minister said after she was defeated by a majority of 58. At the request of the British government, MPs were asked to vote Friday only on the 585-page Withdrawal Agreement, which was concluded in November 2018 between London and the EU after long and painful negotiations. The Brexit deal sets out the terms of Britain's departure from the European Union. May's Brexit deal was rejected in the House of Commons by a record 230 votes in January and by 149 earlier this month. The prime minister separated her Brexit deal from the 26-page political declaration on future relations when seeking the parliamentary vote partly to meet the recent ruling of Commons Speaker John Bercow that the same motion can not be tabled twice in the same parliamentary session. After the vote, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, told the House of Commons that "it is the third time that the prime minister's agreement was rejected." Corbyn went further to call for a general election in the country. His statement was echoed by MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party, which is from Northern Ireland and propping up May's minority government. | 
