This morning, our editor identified the Green Amendment – so-called ‘Malthouse II’, or ‘Amendment F’ – as the Government’s best hope saving the Conservative Party, if not Brexit itself.
Backed by Conservative and DUP MPs, the motion (which we detailed here) sought to ease the path towards a no-deal exit by giving businesses more information and brokering so-called ‘standstill’ arrangements with the EU.
However the Government did not whip in support of the motion, and on a free vote – and with the usual power of the whip and payroll already disintegrating – several high-profile members of the Cabinet helped to see it convincingly defeated.
- Richard Bacon
- Guto Bebb
- Nick Boles
- Jack Brereton
- Steve Brine
- Alistair Burt
- James Cartlidge
- Alex Chalk
- Jo Churchill
- Greg Clark
- Kenneth Clarke
- Stephen Crabb
- Tracey Crouch
- Jonathan Djanogly
- Jackie Doyle-Price
- Mark Field
- Vicky Ford
- Kevin Foster
- Roger Gale
- David Gauke
- Nick Gibb
- Bill Grant
- Justine Greening
- Dominic Grieve
- Andrew Griffiths
- Sam Gyimah
- Luke Hall
- Richard Harrington
- Oliver Heald
- Peter Heaton-Jones
- Simon Hoare
- Philip Hollobone
- John Howell
- Nigel Huddleston
- Margot James
- Marcus Jones
- Phillip Lee
- Oliver Letwin
- David Lidington
- Alan Mak
- Paul Masterton
- Johnny Mercer
- Huw Merriman
- Anne Milton
- Damien Moore
- Anne Marie Morris
- David Morris
- James Morris
- Robert Neill
- Andrew Percy
- Claire Perry
- Victoria Prentis
- Mark Pritchard
- Douglas Ross
- Amber Rudd
- Antoinette Sandbach
- Chloe Smith
- Nicholas Soames
- Caroline Spelman
- Rory Stewart
- Gary Streeter
- Kelly Tolhurst
- Ed Vaizey
- Matt Warman
- Giles Watling
- Mike Wood