
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
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