LONDON, Dec. 4 -- British MPs on Tuesday voted by 311 to 293 to find ministers in contempt of parliament over their failure to publish the full legal advice on the Brexit deal.
It is the first time that the British government was held in contempt of parliament in the country's modern history.
The British government will publish its full legal advice on British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal after MPs found it in contempt of Parliament for not doing so.
The vote came before the main debate in the parliament, which will last for five days before the historic parliamentary vote on Dec. 11 on the UK-EU Brexit deal.
In the four-hour debate prior to the Tuesday vote, some members of parliament were angry over the British government's refusal to publish the full legal advice ministers received from Attorney General Geoffrey Cox.
Instead, the government published just an overview of Cox's legal advice.
Opposition politicians protested that by limiting the information released, the government had ignored a vote in the House of Commons demanding they release the full advice.
Sir Keir Starmer, Brexit spokesman for the main opposition Labour Party, said in the debate the government had disputed an order of the House of Commons, and that was contempt.
The leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, told MPs the use of the contempt motion is very rarely in parliament. She issued an appeal to MPs to refer the motion of contempt to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee for a ruling.
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