Yesterday in the Commons. More opponents than supporters of the Prime Minister’s deal on the Conservative backbenchers.

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

• Peter Bottomley
• James Cleverly
• Alberto Costa
• Vicky Ford
• Richard Graham
• Damian Green
• Patrick McLoughlin
• Huw Merriman
• Andrew Murrison
• James Heappey
• Nick Herbert
• Neil O’Brien
• Andrew Percy
• Nicholas Soames
• Matt Warman

Total: 15

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Neutral

• Peter Aldous
• Luke Graham
• Kirstene Hair
• Greg Hands
• Caroline Johnson
• Marcus Jones
• Jeremy Lefroy
• Edward Leigh
• Maggie Throup
• David Tredennick
• Martin Vickers
• Bill Wiggin
• William Wragg

Total: 13

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Unsupportive backbenchers

• Steve Baker
• Peter Bone
• Conor Burns
• Bill Cash
• Mark Francois
• Justine Greening
• Dominic Grieve
• Boris Johnson
• David Jones
• Owen Paterson
• Mike Penning
• Dominic Raab
• Jacob Rees-Mogg
• Desmond Swayne
• Michael Tomlinson
• Ross Thomson
• Theresa Villiers
• Sarah Wollaston

Total: 18