Ahead with an announcement today on next years public Spending Plans, with an extra £2 billion 2. 1; billion of brexit funding. Hello and welcome to business live. And a very rain drenched westminster. Dramatic political events here in westminster are heightening marketjitters about brexit. Prime minister borisjohnson lost a key brexit vote last night, giving mps more clout to prevent a no deal exit from the eu. That bill will be voted on later today. The defeat has prompted the Prime Minister to push for a snap election, though that will also be put to a vote in the commons. That will be later. The pound bounced in the wake of the vote to defy mrjohnson, after falling on tuesday to below 1. 20 against the dollar its lowest level in three years. The pound was trading at about 1. 50 before the Eu Referendum in june 2016. Data from the office for National Statistics shows the uk economy shrank by 0. 2 between april and june for the First Time Since 2012. 0ur political correspondent, rob