Business leaders have savaged the UK House of Commons over the continued failure of MPs to agree a way forward on Brexit.
Britain's exit from the European Union remains deadlocked after the Commons failed on Monday to agree on any alternative to Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal, rejecting all indicative vote options.
The four options included remaining in a customs union with the EU; membership of the single market with a customs arrangement; putting any agreed deal to a second referendum; and halting Brexit altogether if necessary to avoid leaving the bloc without a deal.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said families would suffer with higher prices and less choice without a deal.
"Parliamentarians are playing a reckless game of chicken which will end in disaster unless enough MPs can be persuaded to back a clear outcome which avoids a chaotic no-deal Brexit," Dickinson said.
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Chief executive of London First, Jasmine Whitbread, said: "Once again, Parliament has failed to back a horse and, once again, we find ourselves with only days to go before we are due to leave the EU without a deal - the one thing Parliament does agree we should avoid.
"The Government must now accept the need to ask the EU for a longer extension or better still, revoke Article 50, as that is the only unilateral way to take no deal off the table."
Food and Drink Federation chief executive Ian Wright said UK business confidence in political leadership was running out, and that the UK needed to request a sufficient extension to Article 50 to "allow a complete rethink".
May will seek to break the Brexit deadlock as she gathers her Cabinet for a marathon session of crisis talks in Downing Street on Tuesday.
