UK no-confidence debate: What May's friends and foes said

"Far from helping parliament finish the job and fulfill our promise to the people of the United Kingdom it would mean extending article 50 and delaying Brexit for who knows how long," May said, adding that a new election "would deepen division when we need unity, it would bring chaos when we need certainty, and it would bring delay when we need to move forward."

"We will support the government tonight ... so that the prime minister has more time and has the space to focus now on acting in the national interest on Brexit and it’s important that the prime minister now does listen." The DUP is Northern Ireland's largest party, a Brexit backer and a crucial underwriter of May's parliamentary majority.

"I haven't heard of any Conservative MP who will not support her." Rees-Mogg's comments raise eyebrows in that he was a driving force behind the internal Conservative leadership challenge which May survived last November. He also voted against May's Brexit plan in Tuesday's House of Commons vote.

"We should not only be keeping the good bits of the deal, getting rid of the backstop, but we should also be actively preparing for no-deal with ever more enthusiasm ... The issue is not who does it, the issue is what to do." Johnson, May's former foreign minister and a leading Brexit supporter, is considered among the favorites to perhaps replace May should she eventually vacate her post.

Tuesday's House of Commons vote "has not solved any of the problems the government faces. It's deadlock, it's a stalemate." Bridgen, a Conservative Brexiter, voted against May's plan Tuesday. He himself wrote a no confidence letter in July and claimed to have gathered 27 signatures by November.

"I think that the significance of this vote against May's deal is that this is the beginning of the end of Brexit." Cable is one of several lawmakers who have called for an extension to the Brexit negotiating process to allow time for a second referendum. His party wishes for the UK to remain in the EU.

"You can be assured when a vote of confidence comes I will be voting in support of my government." Soubry has been one of May's most outspoken skeptics on Brexit, claiming that she had capitulated to "the forces of darkness." She has accused May of being beholden to Jacob Rees-Mogg and other hardliners whose stance will cost "hundreds of thousands of jobs" in the UK.

“If a government cannot get its legislation through parliament, it must go to the country for a new mandate and that must apply when it is on the key issue of the day. Every previous prime minister in this situation would have resigned and called an election and it is the duty of this house to lead where the government has failed.”

"With just 37 sitting days until exit day, there is absolutely no time to waste. If the no confidence motion today fails, we must move to the next stage of the Labour conference motion and immediately back a #PeoplesVote as the way to stop no deal and resolve this." The centrist former Labour leadership candidate has become a leading campaigner for a second referendum.

Says May has been "captured by right-wing Conservative Brexiteers," adding, "The government should recognize it has no moral authority; it should go." Blackford, a critic of May, has said that Scotland will stand united as Westminster descends into chaos. He and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon have repeatedly called for a second referendum on Brexit. Scotland voted to remain in the first referendum.