Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has indicated ministers will continue to press on with Theresa May's Brexit deal despite Speaker John Bercow's Commons ruling.
Mr Barclay said the Cabinet would give "serious consideration" to Mr Bercow's decision that the Government cannot bring the deal back for a third "meaningful vote" without substantial changes.
However he said that the Speaker had made clear in earlier rulings that the Commons should not necessarily be bound by precedent.
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"What we need to do is secure the deal," he told Sky News.
"What the Speaker has said in his ruling is there needs to be something that is different. You can have the same motion but where the circumstances have changed.
"Obviously that has a difference in terms of how Members of Parliament would vote on a particular motion. So we need to look at the details of the ruling, we need to consider that in the terms of earlier rulings that don't particularly align with yesterday's.
"That the fact that a number of Members of Parliament have said that they will change their votes points to the fact that there are things that are different."
Labour Leave has been fined £8,000 for failing to report donations during the 2016 EU referendum.
Electoral Commission director of regulation Louise Edwards said there were 11 donations worth £420,000 during the referendum that went unreported.
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Ms Edwards said Labour Leave had a responsibility to accurately report donations "so the public could see where the money they used for campaigning came from".
Irish premier Leo Varadkar has welcomed Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, to Government Buildings in Dublin.
The meeting is to discuss Brexit and other issues on the EU agenda, ahead of the European Council meeting in Brussels later this week.
A European Commission spokesman has said negotiators are awaiting the UK Government's decision on how to proceed, at the daily press briefing in Brussels.
He said: "We're now exactly 10 days away from the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
"We naturally follow all developments in the House of Commons very closely but it's not for us to comment on or intervene in Parliamentary procedures or conventions of the UK.
"It will be for the Prime Minister and her Government to decide on the next steps and then to inform us accordingly and swiftly."
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