Government defeated by a majority of 41 in the Commons on move to prevent prorogation

Government defeated by a majority of 41 in the Commons on move to prevent prorogation

The House of Commons has just voted by 315 votes to 274 (a majority of 41) for a Lords Amendment to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill, which could stop the next Prime Minister proroguing Parliament as a way to enable a no-deal Brexit. The amendment, passed in the House of Lords yesterday by 272 votes to 168 (a majority of 104) will require progress reports on restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland to be debated regularly in Parliament in the autumn.

It is a reminder of the parliamentary arithmetic that the new Prime Minister will have to deal with on taking office next week.

315 MPs voted for the Amendment (317 if you include the two tellers), including 17 Conservative rebels (including Margot James, who resigned as a minister to do so), 235 Labour MPs, 34 SNP MPs, 12 Lib Dem MPs, along with MPs from Plaid Cymru, the Independent Group for Change, the Green Party and 10 further Independents.

Meanwhile, 274 MPs voted against the Amendment (276 including two tellers), including 264 Conservatives, 1 Labour MP, all 10 DUP MPs and 1 Independent.

There were no fewer than 30 Conservative MPs abstaining, including a number of serving Cabinet ministers sceptical about a no-deal Brexit, although it is impossible to know from the division lists whether they were deliberate abstentions or if the MPs were on parliamentary business elsewhere or were maybe “paired” with an absent Opposition MP.

Responding to the vote, a Downing Street spokesman said:

“The Prime Minister is obviously disappointed that a number of Ministers failed to vote in this afternoon’s division. No doubt her successor will take this into account when forming their government.”

Below are full lists of which MPs voted for the Amendment, those who did not vote at all and of course the full list of those who voted against the Amendment.

THE 317 MPs WHO SUPPORTED THE LORDS AMENDMENT

 

 

Conservative

  1. Guto Bebb
  2. Steve Brine
  3. Alistair Burt
  4. Jonathan Djanogly
  5. Justine Greening
  6. Dominic Grieve
  7. Sam Gyimah
  8. Richard Harrington
  9. Margot James
  10. Phillip Lee
  11. Jeremy Lefroy
  12. Oliver Letwin
  13. Paul Masterton
  14. Sarah Newton
  15. Antoinette Sandbach
  16. Keith Simpson
  17. Ed Vaizey

Green

  1. Caroline Lucas

Independent

  1. Heidi Allen
  2. Luciana Berger
  3. Nick Boles
  4. Sylvia Hermon
  5. Kelvin Hopkins
  6. Stephen Lloyd
  7. Gavin Shuker
  8. Angela Smith
  9. Sarah Wollaston
  10. John Woodcock

Independent Group for Change

  1. Mike Gapes
  2. Chris Leslie
  3. Joan Ryan
  4. Anna Soubry

Labour

  1. Diane Abbott
  2. Debbie Abrahams
  3. Rushanara Ali
  4. Rosena Allin-Khan
  5. Mike Amesbury
  6. Tonia Antoniazzi
  7. Jonathan Ashworth
  8. Adrian Bailey
  9. Kevin Barron
  10. Margaret Beckett
  11. Hilary Benn
  12. Clive Betts
  13. Roberta Blackman-Woods
  14. Paul Blomfield
  15. Tracy Brabin
  16. Ben Bradshaw
  17. Kevin Brennan
  18. Lyn Brown
  19. Nick Brown
  20. Chris Bryant
  21. Karen Buck
  22. Richard Burden
  23. Richard Burgon
  24. Dawn Butler
  25. Liam Byrne
  26. Ruth Cadbury
  27. Alan Campbell
  28. Dan Carden
  29. Sarah Champion
  30. Jenny Chapman
  31. Bambos Charalambous
  32. Ann Clwyd
  33. Vernon Coaker
  34. Julie Cooper
  35. Rosie Cooper
  36. Yvette Cooper
  37. Jeremy Corbyn
  38. Neil Coyle
  39. David Crausby
  40. Mary Creagh
  41. Stella Creasy
  42. Jon Cruddas
  43. John Cryer
  44. Judith Cummings
  45. Alex Cunningham
  46. Jim Cunningham
  47. Janet Daby
  48. Nic Dakin (Teller)
  49. Wayne David
  50. Geraint Davies
  51. Marsha De Cordova
  52. Gloria de Piero
  53. Thangam Debbonaire (Teller)
  54. Emma Dent Coad
  55. Tan Dhesi
  56. Annaliese Dodds
  57. Stephen Doughty
  58. Peter Dowd
  59. David Drew
  60. Jack Dromey
  61. Rosie Duffield
  62. Angela Eagle
  63. Maria Eagle
  64. Clive Efford
  65. Julie Elliott
  66. Louise Ellman
  67. Chris Elmore
  68. Bill Esterson
  69. Christopher Evans
  70. Jim Fitzpatrick
  71. Colleen Fletcher
  72. Caroline Flint
  73. Lisa Forbes
  74. Yvonne Fovargue
  75. Vicky Foxcroft
  76. James Frith
  77. Gill Furniss
  78. Hugh Gaffney
  79. Barry Gardiner
  80. Ruth George
  81. Preet Gill
  82. Mary Glindon
  83. Roger Godsiff
  84. Helen Goodman
  85. Kate Green
  86. Lilian Greenwood
  87. Margaret Greenwood
  88. Nia Griffith
  89. John Grogan
  90. Andrew Gwynne
  91. Louise Haigh
  92. Fabian Hamilton
  93. David Hanson
  94. Emma Hardy
  95. Harriet Harman
  96. Carolyn Harris
  97. Helen Hayes
  98. Sue Hayman
  99. John Healey
  100. Mark Hendrick
  101. Mike Hill
  102. Meg Hillier
  103. Margaret Hodge
  104. Sharon Hodgson
  105. Kate Hollern
  106. George Howarth
  107. Rupa Huq
  108. Imran Hussain
  109. Dan Jarvis
  110. Diana Johnson
  111. Darren Jones
  112. Gerald Jones
  113. Graham Jones
  114. Helen Jones
  115. Kevan Jones
  116. Ruth Jones
  117. Sarah Jones
  118. Susan Elan Jones
  119. Michael Kane
  120. Barbara Keeley
  121. Elizabeth Kendall
  122. Afzal Khan
  123. Gerard Killen
  124. Stephen Kinnock
  125. Peter Kyle
  126. Lesley Laird
  127. David Lammy
  128. Ian Lavery
  129. Karen Lee
  130. Emma Lewell-Buck
  131. Clive Lewis
  132. Tony Lloyd
  133. Rebecca Long-Bailey
  134. Ian Lucas
  135. Holly Lynch
  136. Justin Madders
  137. Khalid Mahmood
  138. Shabana Mahmood
  139. Seema Malhotra
  140. Gordon Marsden
  141. Sandy Martin
  142. Rachael Maskell
  143. Chris Matheson
  144. Steve McCabe
  145. Kerry McCarthy
  146. Siobhain McDonagh
  147. Andy McDonald
  148. John McDonnell
  149. Pat McFadden
  150. Alison McGovern
  151. Liz McInnes
  152. Catherine McKinnell
  153. Jim McMahon
  154. Anna McMorrin
  155. Ian Mearns
  156. Ed Miliband
  157. Madeleine Moon
  158. Jessica Morden
  159. Stephen Morgan
  160. Grahame Morris
  161. Ian Murray
  162. Lisa Nandy
  163. Alex Norris
  164. Melanie Onn
  165. Chi Onwurah
  166. Kate Osamor
  167. Albert Owen
  168. Stephanie Peacock
  169. Teresa Pearce
  170. Matthew Pennycook
  171. Toby Perkins
  172. Jess Phillips
  173. Bridget Phillipson
  174. Laura Pidcock
  175. Jo Platt
  176. Luke Pollard
  177. Stephen Pound
  178. Lucy Powell
  179. Yasmin Qureshi
  180. Faisal Rashid
  181. Angela Rayner
  182. Steve Reed
  183. Christina Rees
  184. Ellie Reeves
  185. Rachel Reeves
  186. Emma Reynolds
  187. Jonathan Reynolds
  188. Marie Rimmer
  189. Geoffrey Robinson
  190. Matt Rodda
  191. Danielle Rowley
  192. Chris Ruane
  193. Naz Shah
  194. Virendra Sharma
  195. Barry Sheerman
  196. Paula Sherriff
  197. Tulip Siddiq
  198. Dennis Skinner
  199. Andy Slaughter
  200. Ruth Smeeth
  201. Cat Smith
  202. Eleanor Smith
  203. Jeff Smith
  204. Laura Smith
  205. Nick Smith
  206. Owen Smith
  207. Karin Smyth
  208. Gareth Snell
  209. Alex Sobel
  210. John Spellar
  211. Keir Starmer
  212. Jo Stevens
  213. Wes Streeting
  214. Graham Stringer
  215. Paul Sweeney
  216. Gareth Thomas
  217. Nick Thomas-Symonds
  218. Emily Thornberry
  219. Stephen Timms
  220. Anna Turley
  221. Karl Turner
  222. Derek Twigg
  223. Liz Twist
  224. Keith Vaz
  225. Valerie Vaz
  226. Thelma Walker
  227. Tom Watson
  228. Catherine West
  229. Matt Western
  230. Alan Whitehead
  231. Martin Whitfield
  232. Paul Williams
  233. Phil Wilson
  234. Mohammad Yasin
  235. Daniel Zeichner

Liberal Democrat

  1. Tom Brake
  2. Vince Cable
  3. Alistair Carmichael
  4. Ed Davey
  5. Tim Farron
  6. Wera Hobhouse
  7. Christine Jardine
  8. Norman Lamb
  9. Layla Moran
  10. Jamie Stone
  11. Jo Swinson
  12. Chuka Umunna

Plaid Cymru

  1. Jonathan Edwards
  2. Ben Lake
  3. Liz Saville Roberts
  4. Hywel Williams

SNP

  1. Hannah Bardell
  2. Mhairi Black
  3. Ian Blackford
  4. Kirsty Blackman
  5. Deidre Brock
  6. Alan Brown
  7. Lisa Cameron
  8. Doug Chapman
  9. Joanna Cherry
  10. Ronnie Cowan
  11. Angela Crawley
  12. Martyn Day
  13. Martin Docherty-Hughes
  14. Marion Fellows
  15. Stephen Gethins
  16. Patricia Gibson
  17. Patrick Grady
  18. Peter Grant
  19. Neil Gray
  20. Drew Hendry
  21. Stewart Hosie
  22. Chris Law
  23. David Linden
  24. Stewart McDonald
  25. Stuart McDonald
  26. John McNally
  27. Carol Monaghan
  28. Gavin Newlands
  29. Brendan O’Hara
  30. Tommy Sheppard
  31. Chris Stephens
  32. Alison Thewliss
  33. Philippa Whitford
  34. Pete Wishart

THE 45 MPs WHO DID NOT VOTE IN THE DIVISION*

 

 

Conservative

  1. Richard Benyon
  2. Peter Bottomley
  3. Karen Bradley
  4. Graham Brady
  5. Greg Clark
  6. Ken Clarke
  7. Alan Duncan
  8. Vicky Ford
  9. David Gauke
  10. Cheryl Gillan
  11. Zac Goldsmith
  12. Damian Green
  13. Philip Hammond
  14. Stephen Hammond
  15. John Hayes
  16. Simon Hoare
  17. Jeremy Hunt
  18. Caroline Johnson
  19. Gillian Keegan
  20. Pauline Latham
  21. Huw Merriman
  22. Anne Milton
  23. Bob Neill
  24. Matthew Offord
  25. Victoria Prentis
  26. Nicholas Soames
  27. Caroline Spelman
  28. Rory Stewart
  29. Julian Sturdy
  30. Tom Tugendhat

Independent

  1. Frank Field
  2. Ivan Lewis
  3. Jared O’Mara
  4. Chris Williamson

Independent Group for Change

  1. Ann Coffey

Labour

  1. Ronnie Campbell
  2. Paul Farrelly
  3. Stephen Hepburn
  4. John Mann
  5. Conor McGinn
  6. Lloyd Russel-Moyle
  7. Mark Tami
  8. Jon Trickett
  9. Stephen Twigg

SNP

  1. Angus MacNeil

*Not including the Speaker, John Bercow, and his three deputies (Lindsay Hoyle, Eleanor Laing and Rosie Winterton) who, by convention, do not vote in Commons divisions and the Sinn Fein MPs who have not taken their seats. NB: Absence from the division may be for a number of reasons, such as being ill, on parliamentary business elsewhere, as well as a deliberate abstention. The Brecon and Radnorshire seat is currently vacant pending a by-election.

THE 276 MPs WHO OPPOSED THE AMENDMENT=============

 

Conservative

  1. Nigel Adams
  2. Bim Afolami
  3. Adam Afriyie
  4. Peter Aldous
  5. Lucy Allan
  6. David Amess
  7. Stuart Andrew
  8. Edward Argar
  9. Victoria Atkins
  10. Richard Bacon
  11. Kemi Badenoch
  12. Steve Baker
  13. Harriett Baldwin
  14. Steve Barclay
  15. John Baron
  16. Henry Bellingham
  17. Paul Beresford
  18. Jake Berry
  19. Bob Blackman
  20. Crispin Blunt
  21. Peter Bone
  22. Andrew Bowie
  23. Ben Bradley
  24. Suella Braverman
  25. Jack Brereton
  26. Andrew Bridgen
  27. James Brokenshire
  28. Fiona Bruce
  29. Robert Buckland
  30. Alex Burghart
  31. Conor Burns
  32. Alun Cairns
  33. James Cartlidge
  34. William Cash
  35. Maria Caulfield
  36. Alex Chalk
  37. Rehman Chishti
  38. Christopher Chope
  39. Jo Churchill
  40. Colin Clark
  41. Simon Clarke
  42. James Cleverly
  43. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
  44. Thérèse Coffey
  45. Damian Collins
  46. Alberto Costa
  47. Robert Courts
  48. Geoffrey Cox
  49. Stephen Crabb
  50. Tracey Crouch
  51. David Davies
  52. Glyn Davies
  53. Mims Davies
  54. Philip Davies
  55. David Davis
  56. Caroline Dinenage
  57. Leo Docherty
  58. Michelle Donelan
  59. Nadine Dorries
  60. Steve Double
  61. Oliver Dowden
  62. Jackie Doyle-Price
  63. Richard Drax
  64. James Duddridge
  65. David Duguid
  66. Iain Duncan Smith
  67. Philip Dunne
  68. Michael Ellis
  69. Tobias Ellwood
  70. Charlie Elphicke
  71. George Eustice
  72. Nigel Evans
  73. David Evennett
  74. Michael Fabricant
  75. Michael Fallon
  76. Mark Field
  77. Kevin Foster
  78. Liam Fox
  79. Mark Francois
  80. Lucy Frazer
  81. George Freeman
  82. Mike Freer
  83. Marcus Fysh
  84. Roger Gale
  85. Mark Garnier
  86. Nusrat Ghani
  87. Nick Gibb
  88. John Glen
  89. Robert Goodwill
  90. Michael Gove
  91. Luke Graham
  92. Richard Graham
  93. Bill Grant
  94. Helen Grant
  95. James Gray
  96. Chris Grayling
  97. Chris Green
  98. Andrew Griffiths
  99. Kirstene Hair
  100. Robert Halfon
  101. Luke Hall
  102. Matt Hancock
  103. Greg Hands
  104. Mark Harper
  105. Rebecca Harris
  106. Trudy Harrison
  107. Simon Hart
  108. Oliver Heald
  109. James Heappey
  110. Chris Heaton-Harris
  111. Peter Heaton-Jones
  112. Gordon Henderson
  113. Nick Herbert
  114. Damian Hinds
  115. George Hollingbery
  116. Kevin Hollinrake
  117. Philip Hollobone
  118. Adam Holloway
  119. John Howell
  120. Nigel Huddleston
  121. Eddie Hughes
  122. Nick Hurd
  123. Alister Jack
  124. Sajid Javid
  125. Ranil Jayawardena
  126. Bernard Jenkin
  127. Andrea Jenkyns
  128. Robert Jenrick
  129. Boris Johnson
  130. Gareth Johnson
  131. Jo Johnson
  132. Andrew Jones
  133. David Jones
  134. Marcus Jones
  135. Daniel Kawczynski
  136. Seema Kennedy
  137. Stephen Kerr
  138. Sir Greg Knight
  139. Julian Knight
  140. Kwasi Kwarteng
  141. John Lamont
  142. Mark Lancaster
  143. Andrea Leadsom
  144. Edward Leigh
  145. Andrew Lewer
  146. Brandon Lewis
  147. Julian Lewis
  148. Ian Liddell-Grainger
  149. David Lidington
  150. Julia Lopez
  151. Jack Lopresti
  152. Jonathan Lord
  153. Tim Loughton
  154. Craig Mackinlay
  155. Rachel Maclean
  156. Anne Main
  157. Alan Mak
  158. Kit Malthouse
  159. Scott Mann
  160. Theresa May
  161. Paul Maynard
  162. Patrick McLoughlin
  163. Stephen McPartland
  164. Esther McVey
  165. Mark Menzies
  166. Johnny Mercer
  167. Stephen Metcalfe
  168. Maria Miller
  169. Amanda Milling
  170. Nigel Mills
  171. Andrew Mitchell
  172. Damien Moore
  173. Penny Mordaunt
  174. Nicky Morgan
  175. Anne Marie Morris
  176. David Morris
  177. James Morris
  178. Wendy Morton
  179. David Mundell
  180. Sheryll Murray
  181. Andrew Murrison
  182. Caroline Nokes
  183. Jesse Norman
  184. Neil O’Brien
  185. Guy Opperman
  186. Neil Parish
  187. Priti Patel
  188. Owen Paterson
  189. Mark Pawsey
  190. Mike Penning
  191. John Penrose
  192. Andrew Percy
  193. Claire Perry
  194. Chris Philp
  195. Christopher Pincher
  196. Daniel Poulter
  197. Rebecca Pow
  198. Mark Prisk
  199. Mark Pritchard
  200. Tom Pursglove
  201. Jeremy Quin (Teller)
  202. Will Quince
  203. Dominic Raab
  204. John Redwood
  205. Jacob Rees-Mogg
  206. Laurence Robertson
  207. Mary Robinson
  208. Andrew Rosindell
  209. Douglas Ross
  210. Lee Rowley
  211. Amber Rudd
  212. David Rutley
  213. Paul Scully
  214. Bob Seely
  215. Andrew Selous
  216. Grant Shapps
  217. Alok Sharma
  218. Alec Shelbrooke
  219. Chris Skidmore
  220. Chloe Smith
  221. Henry Smith
  222. Julian Smith
  223. Royston Smith
  224. Mark Spencer (Teller)
  225. Andrew Stephenson
  226. John Stevenson
  227. Bob Stewart
  228. Iain Stewart
  229. Gary Streeter
  230. Mel Stride
  231. Graham Stuart
  232. Rishi Sunak
  233. Desmond Swayne
  234. Hugo Swire
  235. Robert Syms
  236. Derek Thomas
  237. Ross Thomson
  238. Maggie Throup
  239. Kelly Tolhurst
  240. Justin Tomlinson
  241. Michael Tomlinson
  242. Craig Tracey
  243. David Tredinnick
  244. Anne-Marie Trevelyan
  245. Elizabeth Truss
  246. Shailesh Vara
  247. Martin Vickers
  248. Theresa Villiers
  249. Charles Walker
  250. Robin Walker
  251. Ben Wallace
  252. David Warburton
  253. Matt Warman
  254. Giles Watling
  255. Helen Whately
  256. Heather Wheeler
  257. Craig Whittaker
  258. John Whittingdale
  259. Bill Wiggin
  260. Gavin Williamson
  261. Mike Wood
  262. William Wragg
  263. Jeremy Wright
  264. Nadhim Zahawi

DUP

  1. Gregory Campbell
  2. Nigel Dodds
  3. Jeffrey Donaldson
  4. Paul Girvan
  5. Emma Little Pengelly
  6. Ian Paisley
  7. Gavin Robinson
  8. Jim Shannon
  9. David Simpson
  10. Sammy Wilson

Independent

  1. Ian Austin

Labour

  1. Kate Hoey