The Government’s only defeat in this run of amendment votes also featured its largest rebellion. The 17 MPs backing the non-binding Spelman amendment are listed below – notable additions who did not rebel on earlier votes are Spelman herself, Jeremy Lefroy...
The 12 Tory MPs who supported the Reeves amendment (a two-year Article 50 extension)
While there was general expectation that there would be some Conservative votes for the Cooper/Boles proposal which involved delaying Article 50 by nine months, it is quite remarkable that a dozen Conservative MPs even rebelled to vote for Rachel Reeves’...
The 15 Conservative MPs who backed the Grieve amendment
Here is the full list of the 15 Conservative MPs who tonight rebelled to support Dominic Grieve’s amendment: Heidi Allen Guto Bebb Nick Boles Ken Clarke Jonathan Djanogly Justine Greening Dominic Grieve Sam Gyimah Phillip Lee Oliver Letwin Antoinette Sandbach...
The 17 Tory MPs who rebelled to support the Cooper amendment
Below is the full list of the 17 Conservative MPs who tonight rebelled to support Yvette Cooper and Nick Boles’s amendment. Fifteen of the rebels are the same as those who backed the Grieve amendment, and they were joined by Freeman: Heidi Allen Guto Bebb Nick...
Which Labour MPs defied their party on key amendments – including latest abstention news
January 30 8.30am Mike Blanchard’s daily e-mail reports this morning the following Labour abstentions on the Cooper amendment: Tracy Brabin Judith Cummins Gloria De Piero Yvonne Fovargue Mike Kane Emma Lewell-Buck Jim McMahon Melanie Onn Ruth Smeeth John Spellar...
Robert Halfon: Excluded children should be safe and secure – not left vulnerable on our streets.
Robert Halfon is MP for Harlow, a former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman, Chair of the Education Select Committee and President of Conservative Workers and Trade Unionists. Exclusions An average of 40 children are permanently excluded from our schools every single...
WATCH: Morgan on why pro-soft and hard Brexit Conservative MPs agree on the Malthouse Compromise
"The country does expect people with different views to work together and I think that has to be right" – MP @NickyMorgan01 on the compromise required over #Brexit Latest coverage: https://t.co/BKvQnOpwy6 pic.twitter.com/vKxqwOLemT — BBC Politics...
WATCH: Cooper – is the Prime Minister prepared to extend Article 50 or not?
"She will know that the credibility she has is very limited." Labour's Yvette Cooper challenges Theresa May over whether she will extend Article 50 to avoid a no-deal Brexit if her deal is voted down again. pic.twitter.com/0ZWpZgLSPq — Channel 4...
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Corbyn digs himself into a hole as the Prime Minister starts to unite her party
Jeremy Corbyn dug himself into such a deep hole that by the end of his speech only his head was visible. These ought to be great days for the Leader of the Opposition as he faces a Prime Minister whose party is deeply split on Brexit. But by taking almost no...
WATCH: May says that she now seeks “a significant and binding change” to the Withdrawal Agreement
UK PM Theresa May commits to seeking "significant and legally binding change" to EU withdrawal agreement over Northern Ireland backstop Live #Brexit debate coverage: https://t.co/BKvQnOpwy6 pic.twitter.com/zTeKEXA2Kg — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics)...
