All the MPs who voted against Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal
Rishi Sunak‘s new deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland has cleared its first Commons test despite the threat of a Tory-DUP rebellion led by Boris Johnson.
MPs voted 515 to 29 – a majority of 486 – in favour of regulations to implement the Stormont brake section of the Windsor Framework, which would allow a minority of politicians at the Northern Ireland Assembly to flag concerns about new EU laws there.
Earlier on Wednesday, ex-prime minister Boris Johnson announced he would be joining the DUP in voting against the government, as he described Mr Sunak’s deal as “unacceptable”.
More than a dozen hardline European Research Group members were among the 22 Tories to vote against the deal, including former Tory leaders Liz Truss and Iain Duncan Smith. But they failed to get the level of opposition they might have hoped for, meaning the government did not have to rely on Labour votes.
Six DUP MPs also voted against, while two DUP MPs acted as tellers for the “noes”. Independent MP Andrew Bridgen also voted against, making 29 in total.
The 22 Tory MPs who rebelled are:
Adam Afriyie
Jake Berry
Peter Bone
Bill Cash
Christopher Chope
Simon Clarke
Richard Drax
James Duddridge
Iain Duncan Smith
Mark Francois
Jonathan Gullis
Adam Holloway
Andrea Jenkyns
Boris Johnson
David Jones
Danny Kruger
Craig Mackinlay
Matthew Offord
Priti Patel
John Redwood
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Liz Truss
Gregory Campbell
Jeffrey Donaldson
Carla Lockhart
Gavin Robinson
Jim Shannon
Sammy Wilson
Andrew Bridgen