Including tellers, 99 Conservative MPs voted against the Government’s proposal to delay Brexit to 30th June today.
Despite a three-line whip, only 133 Conservative MPs voted for the motion – a remarkably low number, which underscores the collapse in the authority of the Tory whip. A further 80 Conservative MPs – including Andrea Leadsom, Liam Fox, Geoffrey Cox and Brandon Lewis – did not vote. As ever we must be careful to ascribe not voting to a deliberate political abstention, given that absence can be caused by illness and other reasons, but 80 is very high for a whipped division.
Presumably since Gauke et al were previously allowed to stay in Cabinet after abstaining in the face of a three-line whip, there will not be any disciplinary consequences for the absence of these Cabinet ministers. As this site predicted, the effect has been deleterious on discipline.
Conservative MPs who voted against a further delay to Brexit
Adam Afriyie
David Amess
Richard Bacon
Steve Baker
John Baron
Bob Blackman
Crispin Blunt
Peter Bone
Ben Bradley
Graham Brady
Suella Braverman
Andrew Bridgen
Fiona Bruce
Conor Burns
William Cash
Maria Caulfield
Rehman Chishti
Simon Clarke
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Chris Davies
Philip Davies
David Davis
Steve Double
Richard Drax
James Duddridge
Iain Duncan Smith
Charlie Elphicke
George Eustice
David Evennett
Michael Fabricant
Mark Francois
Marcus Fysh
Cheryl Gillan
Zac Goldsmith
James Gray
Chris Green
Andrew Griffiths
Robert Halfon
Greg Hands
Mark Harper
Chris Heaton-Harris
Gordon Henderson
Philip Hollobone
Adam Holloway
Eddie Hughes
Ranil Jayawardena
Bernard Jenkin
Andrea Jenkyns
Boris Johnson
Gareth Johnson
David Jones
Daniel Kawczynski
Pauline Latham
Andrew Lewer
Julian Lewis
Julia Lopez
Tim Loughton
Craig Mackinlay
Anne Main
Scott Mann
Stephen McPartland
Esther McVey
Johnny Mercer
Stephen Metcalfe
Nigel Mills
Anne Marie Morris
Sheryll Murray
Neil Parish
Priti Patel
Owen Paterson
Mike Penning
Mark Pritchard
Tom Pursglove
Dominic Raab
John Redwood
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Laurence Robertson
Mary Robinson
Andrew Rosindell
Lee Rowley
Henry Smith
Royston Smith
Julian Sturdy
Desmond Swayne
Hugo Swire
Robert Syms
Derek Thomas
Ross Thomson
Michael Tomlinson
Craig Tracey
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Shailesh Vara
Martin Vickers
Theresa Villiers
Charles Walker
Giles Watling
John Whittingdale
Bill Wiggin
William Wragg