Distinguishing a supportive question to a Minister from the Conservative backbenches from a non-supportive one is necessarily a term of art.
With that cautionary qualification in mind, we offer our best shot at estimating which questions to the Prime Minister from her own Party were supportive, non-supportive, and neutral – for example, requests for information.
We do so simply to get a flavour of where Tory MPs are on the proposed Brexit deal, to which the answer, as you might expect, is “deeply divided”.
This morning’s headlines suggest that Theresa May had a more hostile reception than our breakdown suggests, but you are in a very bad fix as Prime Minister when the number of unsupportive questions outnumbers the number of supportive ones/
Supportive backbenchers
Total: 15
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Neutral
Total: 13
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Unsupportive backbenchers
Total: 18