Tory Lockdown rebels reach 42
Scores of Tories have defied the Government’s instruction to vote for lockdown measures
MPs have just voted to back the 10pm curfew in the House of Commons but a large whipping operation run by “Rebel Commander” Steve Baker meant 42 Tory MPs refused to back down in their opposition to the plans and 18 Tory MPs abstained.
Former Prime Minister Theresa May, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and Scottish Tories leader Douglas Ross were all among the Tory abstainers. (although this can be for a variety of reasons)
Of the 82 who voted against, 42 were Conservative MPs. 23 Labour rebels, amongst them Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, defied Keir Starmer’s instruction to abstain and voted against. Along with Labour, the SNP also abstained on the vote but if they had opposed it, the vote would have removed the Government majority and caused the motion to fail.
Also in the “no” lobby, were 10 Lib Dem MPs, 6 DUP MPs, and Green MP Caroline Lucas.
Tonight disaffected Tory MPs kept their powder dry on a whole raft of lockdown votes, focussing all their firepower on Motion 9, the Statutory Instrument that retrospectively gave the Government powers to restrict the opening hours of certain businesses.
Boris Johnson even put in an appearance to the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs before the showdown in an attempt to convince the rebels to relent, but those in the room said his support was limited. To no very obvious effect, government whips claimed to Tory MPs before the vote that if it failed, local councils would lose their power to impose fines and other measures they need to maintain a lockdown.
In order to vote against the motion, Chris Green, a PPS and the MP for Bolton resigned from the government, citing 20,000 fewer GP referrals to hospital in Bolton due to lockdown measures. He tweeted: “The Bolton lockdown has clearly not worked, and I believe that the cure is worse than the disease”.
In total 299 MPs voted for the motion (301 if you include the two tellers) including 298 Conservative MPs, and 1 DUP MP Jim Shannon. 82 Voted against the motion (84 if you include the two tellers) including 42 Conservative MPs, 23 Labour MPs, 10 Lib Dem MPs, 6 DUP MPs, and Green MP Caroline Lucas. A further 265 did not vote in the division.
The Tellers for the Ayes were Maggie Throup (Conservative) and Michael Tomlinson (Conservative).
The Tellers for the Noes were Philip Hollobone (Conservative) and Craig Mackinlay (Conservative).
The full division list is below:
THE 299 MPs WHO SUPPORTED THE MOTION
Conservative
- Nigel Adams
- Bim Afolami
- Adam Afriyie
- Nickie Aiken
- Peter Aldous
- Lucy Allan
- Lee Anderson
- Stuart Anderson
- Stuart Andrew
- Caroline Ansell
- Edward Argar
- Sarah Atherton
- Victoria Atkins
- Gareth Bacon
- Richard Bacon
- Kemi Badenoch
- Shaun Bailey
- Siobhan Baillie
- Duncan Baker
- Steve Barclay
- John Baron
- Simon Baynes
- Aaron Bell
- Scott Benton
- Paul Beresford
- Jake Berry
- Saqib Bhatti
- Ben Bradley
- Karen Bradley
- Suella Braverman
- Jack Brereton
- Andrew Bridgen
- Steve Brine
- Paul Bristow
- Sara Britcliffe
- James Brokenshire
- Anthony Browne
- Fiona Bruce
- Felicity Buchan
- Robert Buckland
- Alex Burghart
- Conor Burns
- Rob Butler
- Alun Cairns
- Andy Carter
- James Cartlidge
- William Cash
- Miriam Cates
- Maria Caulfield
- Alex Chalk
- Rehman Chishti
- Jo Churchill
- Greg Clark
- Simon Clarke
- Theo Clarke
- Brendan Clarke-Smith
- Chris Clarkson
- James Cleverly
- Thérèse Coffey
- Elliot Colburn
- Damian Collins
- Alberto Costa
- Robert Courts
- Claire Coutinho
- Geoffrey Cox
- Stephen Crabb
- Virginia Crosbie
- Tracey Crouch
- David T C Davies
- James Davies
- Gareth Davies
- Mims Davies
- Caroline Dinenage
- Sarah Dines
- Jonathan Djanogly
- Leo Docherty
- Michelle Donelan
- Nadine Dorries
- Steve Double
- Oliver Dowden
- Flick Drummond
- James Duddridge
- David Duguid
- Philip Dunne
- Mark Eastwood
- Ruth Edwards
- Michael Ellis
- Tobias Ellwood
- Natalie Elphicke
- George Eustice
- Luke Evans
- David Evennett
- Ben Everitt
- Michael Fabricant
- Laura Farris
- Simon Fell
- Katherine Fletcher
- Mark Fletcher
- Nick Fletcher
- Vicky Ford
- Kevin Foster
- Liam Fox
- Mark Francois
- Lucy Frazer
- George Freeman
- Mike Freer
- Roger Gale
- Mark Garnier
- Nick Gibb
- Peter Gibson
- Jo Gideon
- Cheryl Gillan
- John Glen
- Robert Goodwill
- Michael Gove
- Richard Graham
- Helen Grant
- James Gray
- Chris Grayling
- Damian Green
- Andrew Griffith
- Kate Griffiths
- James Grundy
- Jonathan Gullis
- Robert Halfon
- Luke Hall
- Stephen Hammond
- Matt Hancock
- Greg Hands
- Rebecca Harris
- Trudy Harrison
- Sally-Ann Hart
- Simon Hart
- John Hayes
- Oliver Heald
- James Heappey
- Chris Heaton-Harris
- Gordon Henderson
- Darren Henry
- Antony Higginbotham
- Damian Hinds
- Simon Hoare
- Richard Holden
- Kevin Hollinrake
- Adam Holloway
- Paul Holmes
- John Howell
- Paul Howell
- Nigel Huddleston
- Neil Hudson
- Eddie Hughes
- Jane Hunt
- Jeremy Hunt
- Sajid Javid
- Ranil Jayawardena
- Bernard Jenkin
- Mark Jenkinson
- Andrea Jenkyns
- Robert Jenrick
- Boris Johnson
- Caroline Johnson
- Gareth Johnson
- David Johnston
- Andrew Jones
- Fay Jones
- David Jones
- Marcus Jones
- Daniel Kawczynski
- Alicia Kearns
- Gillian Keegan
- Greg Knight
- Danny Kruger
- Kwasi Kwarteng
- Robert Largan
- Andrea Leadsom
- Edward Leigh
- Ian Levy
- Andrew Lewer
- Brandon Lewis
- Ian Liddell-Grainger
- Mark Logan
- Marco Longhi
- Julia Lopez
- Jack Lopresti
- Cherilyn Mackrory
- Rachel Maclean
- Alan Mak
- Kit Malthouse
- Scott Mann
- Julie Marson
- Jerome Mayhew
- Paul Maynard
- Jason McCartney
- Mark Menzies
- Johnny Mercer
- Stephen Metcalfe
- Robin Millar
- Maria Miller
- Amanda Milling
- Nigel Mills
- Andrew Mitchell
- Gagan Mohindra
- Damien Moore
- Robbie Moore
- Penny Mordaunt
- David Morris
- James Morris
- Joy Morrissey
- Wendy Morton
- Kieran Mullan
- Holly Mumby-Croft
- Sheryll Murray
- Andrew Murrison
- Robert Neill
- Lia Nici
- Caroline Nokes
- Jesse Norman
- Neil O’Brien
- Matthew Offord
- Guy Opperman
- Neil Parish
- Priti Patel
- Owen Paterson
- Mark Pawsey
- Mike Penning
- John Penrose
- Andrew Percy
- Chris Philp
- Christopher Pincher
- Dan Poulter
- Rebecca Pow
- Victoria Prentis
- Tom Pursglove
- Jeremy Quin
- Will Quince
- Dominic Raab
- Tom Randall
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Nicola Richards
- Angela Richardson
- Rob Roberts
- Laurence Robertson
- Mary Robinson
- Lee Rowley
- Dean Russell
- David Rutley
- Selaine Saxby
- Paul Scully
- Andrew Selous
- Grant Shapps
- Alok Sharma
- Alec Shelbrooke
- David Simmonds
- Chris Skidmore
- Chloe Smith
- Greg Smith
- Julian Smith
- Royston Smith
- Amanda Solloway
- Ben Spencer
- Mark Spencer
- Alexander Stafford
- Andrew Stephenson
- Jane Stevenson
- John Stevenson
- Bob Stewart
- Iain Stewart
- Gary Streeter
- Mel Stride
- Graham Stuart
- Julian Sturdy
- Rishi Sunak
- James Sunderland
- Edward Timpson
- Kelly Tolhurst
- Justin Tomlinson
- Anne-Marie Trevelyan
- Laura Trott
- Elizabeth Truss
- Shailesh Vara
- Martin Vickers
- Theresa Villiers
- Robin Walker
- Ben Wallace
- Jamie Wallis
- Matt Warman
- Suzanne Webb
- Heather Wheeler
- Craig Whittaker
- John Whittingdale
- Bill Wiggin
- James Wild
- Craig Williams
- Gavin Williamson
- Mike Wood
- Jeremy Wright
- Jacob Young
- Nadhim Zahawi
Democratic Unionist Party
- Jim Shannon
THE 265 MPs WHO DID NOT VOTE IN THE DIVISION
Alliance
- Stephen Farry
Conservative
- Peter Bottomley
- Andrew Bowie
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Richard Fuller
- Mark Harper
- Alister Jack
- Simon Jupp
- Julian Knight
- John Lamont
- Jonathan Lord
- Theresa May
- Stephen McPartland
- David Mundell
- Mark Pritchard
- Douglas Ross
- Tom Tugendhat
- David Warburton
- Helen Whately
Democratic Unionist Party
- Gregory Campbell
Independent
- Jonathan Edwards
- Margaret Ferrier
- Julian Lewis
- Claudia Webbe
Labour
- Debbie Abrahams
- Rushanara Ali
- Tahir Ali
- Rosena Allin-Khan
- Mike Amesbury
- Fleur Anderson
- Tonia Antoniazzi
- Jonathan Ashworth
- Paula Barker
- Margaret Beckett
- Hilary Benn
- Clive Betts
- Olivia Blake
- Paul Blomfield
- Tracy Brabin
- Kevin Brennan
- Nicholas Brown
- Lyn Brown
- Karen Buck
- Richard Burgon
- Ian Byrne
- Liam Byrne
- Ruth Cadbury
- Alan Campbell
- Dan Carden
- Sarah Champion
- Bambos Charalambous
- Feryal Clark
- Rosie Cooper
- Yvette Cooper
- Neil Coyle
- Stella Creasy
- Jon Cruddas
- John Cryer
- Judith Cummins
- Alex Cunningham
- Janet Daby
- Wayne David
- Alex Davies-Jones
- Marsha De Cordova
- Thangam Debbonaire
- Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
- Anneliese Dodds
- Stephen Doughty
- Peter Dowd
- Jack Dromey
- Rosie Duffield
- Maria Eagle
- Angela Eagle
- Clive Efford
- Julie Elliott
- Chris Elmore
- Florence Eshalomi
- Bill Esterson
- Chris Evans
- Colleen Fletcher
- Yvonne Fovargue
- Vicky Foxcroft
- Mary Kelly Foy
- Gill Furniss
- Barry Gardiner
- Preet Kaur Gill
- Mary Glindon
- Kate Green
- Lilian Greenwood
- Margaret Greenwood
- Nia Griffith
- Louise Haigh
- Fabian Hamilton
- Emma Hardy
- Harriet Harman
- Carolyn Harris
- Helen Hayes
- John Healey
- Mark Hendrick
- Meg Hillier
- Margaret Hodge
- Sharon Hodgson
- Kate Hollern
- Rachel Hopkins
- George Howarth
- Imran Hussain
- Dan Jarvis
- Diana Johnson
- Kim Johnson
- Darren Jones
- Gerald Jones
- Ruth Jones
- Sarah Jones
- Mike Kane
- Barbara Keeley
- Liz Kendall
- Afzal Khan
- Stephen Kinnock
- Peter Kyle
- David Lammy
- Clive Lewis
- Tony Lloyd
- Holly Lynch
- Justin Madders
- Khalid Mahmood
- Shabana Mahmood
- Seema Malhotra
- Rachael Maskell
- Christian Matheson
- Steve McCabe
- Kerry McCarthy
- Siobhain McDonagh
- Andy McDonald
- John McDonnell
- Pat McFadden
- Conor McGinn
- Alison McGovern
- Catherine McKinnell
- Jim McMahon
- Anna McMorrin
- Edward Miliband
- Navendu Mishra
- Jessica Morden
- Stephen Morgan
- Ian Murray
- James Murray
- Lisa Nandy
- Charlotte Nichols
- Alex Norris
- Chi Onwurah
- Abena Oppong-Asare
- Kate Osamor
- Taiwo Owatemi
- Sarah Owen
- Stephanie Peacock
- Matthew Pennycook
- Toby Perkins
- Jess Phillips
- Bridget Phillipson
- Luke Pollard
- Lucy Powell
- Yasmin Qureshi
- Angela Rayner
- Steve Reed
- Christina Rees
- Ellie Reeves
- Rachel Reeves
- Jonathan Reynolds
- Marie Rimmer
- Matt Rodda
- Naz Shah
- Virendra Sharma
- Barry Sheerman
- Tulip Siddiq
- Andy Slaughter
- Cat Smith
- Jeff Smith
- Nick Smith
- Karin Smyth
- Alex Sobel
- Keir Starmer
- Jo Stevens
- Wes Streeting
- Zarah Sultana
- Mark Tami
- Sam Tarry
- Gareth Thomas
- Nick Thomas-Symonds
- Emily Thornberry
- Stephen Timms
- Karl Turner
- Liz Twist
- Valerie Vaz
- Catherine West
- Matt Western
- Alan Whitehead
- Mick Whitley
- Nadia Whittome
- Beth Winter
- Mohammad Yasin
- Daniel Zeichner
Liberal Democrat
- Christine Jardine
Plaid Cymru
- Ben Lake
- Liz Saville Roberts
- Hywel Williams
Scottish National Party
- Hannah Bardell
- Mhairi Black
- Ian Blackford
- Kirsty Blackman
- Steven Bonnar
- Deidre Brock
- Alan Brown
- Amy Callaghan
- Lisa Cameron
- Douglas Chapman
- Joanna Cherry
- Ronnie Cowan
- Angela Crawley
- Martyn Day
- Martin Docherty-Hughes
- Dave Doogan
- Allan Dorans
- Marion Fellows
- Stephen Flynn
- Patricia Gibson
- Patrick Grady
- Peter Grant
- Neil Gray
- Neale Hanvey
- Drew Hendry
- Stewart Hosie
- Chris Law
- David Linden
- Kenny MacAskill
- Angus Brendan MacNeil
- Stewart Malcolm McDonald
- Stuart C McDonald
- Anne McLaughlin
- John McNally
- Carol Monaghan
- Gavin Newlands
- John Nicolson
- Brendan O’Hara
- Kirsten Oswald
- Tommy Sheppard
- Alyn Smith
- Chris Stephens
- Alison Thewliss
- Owen Thompson
- Richard Thomson
- Philippa Whitford
- Pete Wishart
Social Democratic & Labour Party
- Colum Eastwood
- Claire Hanna
THE 82 MPs WHO OPPOSED THE MOTION
Conservative
- Imran Ahmad Khan
- David Amess
- Steve Baker
- Harriett Baldwin
- Bob Blackman
- Crispin Blunt
- Peter Bone
- Graham Brady
- Christopher Chope
- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
- James Daly
- Philip Davies
- David Davis
- Dehenna Davison
- Jackie Doyle-Price
- Richard Drax
- Marcus Fysh
- Nusrat Ghani
- Chris Green
- Tom Hunt
- Pauline Latham
- Chris Loder
- Tim Loughton
- Anthony Mangnall
- Karl McCartney
- Esther McVey
- Huw Merriman
- Anne Marie Morris
- John Redwood
- Andrew Rosindell
- Gary Sambrook
- Bob Seely
- Henry Smith
- Desmond Swayne
- Robert Syms
- Derek Thomas
- Craig Tracey
- Matt Vickers
- Christian Wakeford
- Charles Walker
- Giles Watling
- William Wragg
Democratic Unionist Party
- Jeffrey M Donaldson
- Paul Girvan
- Carla Lockhart
- Ian Paisley
- Gavin Robinson
- Sammy Wilson
Green Party
- Caroline Lucas
Labour
- Diane Abbott
- Apsana Begum
- Ben Bradshaw
- Chris Bryant
- Dawn Butler
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Geraint Davies
- Andrew Gwynne
- Mike Hill
- Rupa Huq
- Kevan Jones
- Ian Lavery
- Emma Lewell-Buck
- Rebecca Long Bailey
- Ian Mearns
- Grahame Morris
- Kate Osborne
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle
- John Spellar
- Graham Stringer
- Jon Trickett
- Derek Twigg
Liberal Democrat
- Alistair Carmichael
- Wendy Chamberlain
- Daisy Cooper
- Ed Davey
- Tim Farron
- Wera Hobhouse
- Layla Moran
- Sarah Olney
- Jamie Stone
- Munira Wilson
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