Ceredigion MP Ben Lake said that parties will need to “compromise” to avoid a no-deal Brexit, while Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies said he is “tempted” by a ‘Norway-plus type of agreement’ to solve the impasse after an extraordinary few days in Westminster.

Conservative MP Mr Davies voted for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, while Plaid Cymru MP Mr Lake voted against, in a vote last Tuesday. The deal was heavily defeated.

A subsequent vote of no confidence in the government was tabled by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, but that too was defeated.

It has left parliament scrabbling around to find an answer to the Brexit conundrum with just over two months before the UK is scheduled to leave the European Union on 29 March.

Mr Davies said the historic defeat of Mrs May’s deal means that the deal “looks like a dead parrot”, but said the vote “clarifies things.”

“I have a responsibility to move away from the Withdrawal Agreement to a position more acceptable to MPs from other parties,” he said.

“I will not support the dreadful idea of a re-run of the EU Referendum, and realise that leaving with No Deal will be stopped by MPs and the Speaker.

“It will take me a day or two to swallow my own conclusion, but I’m tempted by a Norway Plus type of agreement.

“It is the least unpalatable option available that will deliver Leave.

“It will have to be first of a two-stage exit and will have big consequences for my party.”

A Norway option would see the UK agree to a customs union and free movement, agreements that Mrs May has repeatedly ruled out from negotiations.

Mr Lake, who also voted against Theresa May in the no confidence vote, said: “Given that the Prime Minister’s deal was so decisively rejected, and that her government nevertheless still commands the confidence of the Commons, it is time for all political parties to seek some form of consensus on a solution to this Brexit mess.

“If a way forward is to be found from this impasse, there will have to be some compromise if a deal is to pass through parliament."

Mrs May will return to parliament on Monday to lay out the next stage of the government’s plan ahead of a further vote on the revised Brexit plan on Tuesday, 29 January.

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