It will be the most important vote our MPs have taken for decades and after months of wrangling, parliament will finally deliver its verdict on Theresa May's Brexit deal tonight.

Whatever the outcome, the decision will have profound consequences for the country.

Ten of Kent's MPs have vowed to vote against the deal and if previous debates are anything to go by, feelings will run high.

Here's how today's events unfolded.

9.55pm

Two Conservative parliamentary private secretaries have resigned, prompting some commentators to suggest the government's hold on power could soon disintegrate

9.37pm

Markets show the value of pound Sterling has recovered after falling sharply at the start of the day

9.22pm

Kent MP keeping positive after Brexit vote result

9pm

Analysis of tonight's vote shows that a third of Conservative MPs voted against their own leader

8.39pm

The leader of the Labour group on Medway Council is clear on what he thinks should happen next.

8.33pm

A flavour of the language used by the party leader's tonight.

Jeremy Corbyn said: "Tonight's vote is the greatest defeat for a government since the 1920s in this house."

Theresa May said: "Every day that passes without this issue being resolved means more uncertainty, more bitterness, and more rancour."

8.12pm

Insight from our political editor Paul Francis.

8.06pm

The DUP, which has propped up the government in a confidence and supply deal since the 2017 General Election, has said it will support the Prime Minister in a no-confidence vote.

8.04pm

Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield, the only Labour member in the county, highlights what strange times we live in.

8.02pm

A coded message from European Council president Donald Tusk.

7.59pm

Former Medway councillor and Labour shadow business minister Bill Esterson describes the atmosphere in the Commons after the vote was announced.

7.45pm

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tables vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, which will be debated in parliament tomorrow.

7.40pm

MPs reject Theresa May's Brexit deal in historic vote by 432 votes to 202 - a majority of 230.

7.32pm

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to immediately table a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister if she loses the Brexit deal vote.

7.30pm

Chatter around Westminster suggests the Prime Minister's Brexit deal could be defeated by a majority of up to 200.

7.26pm

Voting is now underway on Theresa May's Brexit deal - the result is expected in around 15 minutes.

7.24pm

MPs have overwhelmingly defeated the Irish backstop amendment tabled by a Tory Brexiteer by 600 votes to 24 - a majority of 576.

7.15pm

The amendment filed by a Conservative party Brexiteer would give the UK power to end the backstop without EU permission, but it is not expected to be successful.

7pm

MPs are voting on an opposition amendment about the Irish backstop. Three other opposition amendments have been dropped, political commentators saying Labour and other parties want tonight to be about "the scale of the PM's defeat".

6.55pm

Minutes before voting gets underway the Prime Minister tells MPs: "This is the most significant vote that any of us will ever be part of in our political careers.

"The time has come for us to make a decision, a decision that will define our country for years to come."

6.45pm

Theresa May says she shares the concerns of MPs about the Irish 'backstop' element of her deal during debate at a packed House of Commons.

6.30pm

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urges MPs on all sides of the political divide to reject Theresa May's "botched deal".

6pm

Kent's only Labour MP Rosie Duffield tweets: "Tonight I will be voting down Theresa May's bad Brexit deal.

"It fails to meet the promises made in the referendum and settles nothing."

4.30pm

North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale talks about the impact on Kent if tonight's Brexit vote leads to a stalemate.

4.15pm

North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale says all the signs are the Prime Minister's deal is heading for defeat.

3.30pm

Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke "struggles to see where the problems will come from" in the event of no-deal.

3.07pm

Faversham and Mid-Kent MP Helen Whately has called the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal agreement a "pretty good deal".

2.50pm

Some thoughts from our political editor Paul Francis.

1.44pm

Kent's only Labour MP, Rosie Duffield, has spoken in Parliament about her concerns around the deal.

The Canterbury MP said many people are angry "they were led to a cliff edge, wearing a blindfold, by a privileged reckless few".

1.38pm

Gillingham and Rainham MP Rehman Chishti sets out why he cannot support the EU withdrawal agreement.

12.31pm

Sir Michael Fallon, the former Defence Secretary and Sevenoaks MP, told KMTV at Westminster why so many MPs have decided to reject the Prime Minister's Brexit deal.

12.15pm

Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke asked the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday if she would agree a no-deal Brexit "wouldn't be the end of the world".

Her response acknowledged there would be damage to the economy.

12.11pm

Another tweet from North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale.

10.04am

Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke will vote against the EU withdrawal agreement later.

He said: “I cannot back paying £39 billion of hard-earned taxpayers' money without something concrete in return. Nor a deal with a backstop that has no end.

“I have listened carefully to my constituents in Dover and Deal and to all sides of the argument – and I have concluded this would be a bad deal for the UK.”

9.20am

Here is the Prime Minister's pitch for her EU withdrawal agreement in 60 seconds.

9.02am

A reminder of the views of North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale, who will be backing the deal as the "least worse solution".

8.48am

Some profound words from the Archbishop of Canterbury ahead of the historic meaningful vote tonight.

8.47am

Collins has tweeted more of his reasoning for voting against the Prime Minister's Brexit deal this evening.

8.18am

Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins, who is chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee in parliament, has made is views on the Brexit deal very clear.

8.01am

Here are some views from kmfm listeners about the Brexit vote today.

7.30am

Here's what Sevenoaks MP Michael Fallon told KMTV about the meaningful vote on the Prime Minister's Brexit deal today.

7.03am

Here is how Kent's MPs are expected to vote on the EU withdrawal agreement.