Division 66 · 1 July 2020
Ten Minute Rule Motion: Prime Minister (Nomination) and Cabinet (Appointment)
At a glance
This division was rejected on 1 July 2020 by a margin of 60, with 55 Ayes and 115 Noes. The largest Aye bloc was Scottish National Party with 44 votes. The largest No bloc was Conservative with 110 votes. The 447 MPs who did not vote outnumbered the margin, enough to have changed the result. This motion was proposed by Pete Wishart. This division took place during a debate on Prime Minister (Nomination) and Cabinet (Appointment).
55
Ayes
115
Noes
Rejected
Result
172
Voted
Rejected by 60
Ayes 55 / Noes 115
The motion
Proposed by Pete Wishart
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the House of Commons to nominate the Prime Minister and approve appointments to the Cabinet; to establish the office of Acting Prime Minister; and for connected purposes. This is the third time I have attempted to bring this… I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the House of Commons to nominate the Prime Minister and approve appointments to the Cabinet; to establish the office of Acting Prime Minister; and for connected purposes. This is the third time I have attempted to bring this Bill before the House. The first time it had to be to be withdrawn because of a general election and the second time because of the covid lockdown. I was trying today to ensure that no other disaster befell me, so that I could be here in my place to deliver this Bill. One of the most curious things about the whole concept of parliamentary sovereignty is the fact that this House is not the least bit sovereign in the nomination of a Prime Minister. Shrouded in semi-mysticism and quasi-convention, this House plays absolutely no part in the process of deciding or determining the nomination of a Prime Minister, save serving solely as a mere spectator. My Bill puts that right by ensuring that the nomination of a Prime Minister and his or her Cabinet is a matter for the House and that we, as representatives of the people of this country, have a role to play in handing over the keys to the most powerful offices in this land. First, what this Bill does not do: it does not in the least alter the role of Her Majesty the Queen in the proceedings. The appointment of a Prime Minister will still be exclusively the job of Her Majesty the Queen as part of her prerogative powers. The Bill strengthens the constitutional convention of keeping the monarch out of politics, by ensuring that she appoints a Prime Minister having had that nominee agreed by this House. Through this Bill, I seek in effect to bring this House into the 21st century and replicate the conditions that we find in most other, properly functioning representative democracies right around the world, and even in properly functioning representative democracies in the rest of the United Kingdom. In the Scottish Parliament, the First Minister and her Cabinet must be approved by the Scottish Parliament and MSPs. The same is true in the Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies; even the London Assembly works on that basis. The process allows confirmation from Parliament and even allows alternatives to emerge to see whether he or she might have the confidence of the House. The Bill would end the current situation, where a Prime Minister of this country can be decided by a few thousand members of the Conservative party. It would end the practice of the House’s having a Prime Minister foisted upon it without so much as a by-your-leave, where the Conservative Association of, say, Tunbridge Wells has more of a say than a directly elected Member of Parliament in determining who the Prime Minister is. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] I hear the “Hear, hears” from Conservative Members, who obviously enjoy that particular privilege. Let us take a cursory look at how we had the good fortune to get our current Prime Minister. He was appointed by Her Majesty as a result of winning the Conservative leadership contest triggered by the resignation of the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), who was first appointed Prime Minister on 31 July 2016 as a result of the resignation of David Cameron as Prime Minister in July 2016. Since 2015, the UK has had two Prime Ministers appointed outside of a general election, determined exclusively by the membership of the Conservative party of the United Kingdom. Looking at the current incumbent, we can only surmise the efficacy and good sense inherent in the current arrangements. This House must never again have an unelected Prime Minister forced upon it. A Prime Minister must be able to demonstrate that she or he has the confidence of this House at the inception of his or her premiership. My Bill would ensure that happens. My Bill would also help to deal with some of the issues that might unexpectedly arise in the course of a parliamentary term—for example, a Prime Minis
Party breakdown
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| Party | Party position | Ayes | Noes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Con Conservative | Voted No | 0 | 110 | 339 |
| SNP Scottish National Party | Voted Aye | 44 | 0 | 46 |
| LD Liberal Democrat | Voted Aye | 8 | 0 | 11 |
| DUP Democratic Unionist Party | Voted No | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| PC Plaid Cymru | Voted Aye | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| SDLP Social Democratic & Labour Party | Voted Aye | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| APNI Alliance | Voted Aye | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Lab Labour | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 153 |
| Lab Labour (Co-op) | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Ind Independent | No party whip | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| SF Sinn Féin | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| YP Your Party | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| RUK Reform UK | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Spk Speaker | No party whip | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Green Green Party | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Alba Alba Party | No clear majority | 0 | 0 | 1 |
"Party position" is how the majority of each party's voting members voted in this division. Parliament does not publish official whipping instructions, so this is derived from the recorded votes. "Rebels" are members who voted against their party's majority; Independent and Speaker roles have no party whip.
Individual votes
| Compare | MP | Party | Constituency | Vote | Rebel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Brown | SNP | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Aye | ||
| Alexander Stafford | Con | Rother Valley | No | ||
| Alison Thewliss | SNP | Glasgow Central | Aye | ||
| Allan Dorans | SNP | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Aye | ||
| Alyn Smith | SNP | Stirling | Aye | ||
| Andrea Leadsom | Con | South Northamptonshire | No | ||
| Andrew Griffith | Con | Arundel and South Downs | No | ||
| Andrew Jones | Con | Harrogate and Knaresborough | No | ||
| Andrew Percy | Con | Brigg and Goole | No | ||
| Andrew Rosindell | Con | Romford | No | ||
| Andrew Selous | Con | South West Bedfordshire | No | ||
| Andy Carter | Con | Warrington South | No | ||
| Angela Crawley | SNP | Lanark and Hamilton East | Aye | ||
| Anne McLaughlin | SNP | Glasgow North East | Aye | ||
| Anthony Mangnall | Con | Totnes | No | ||
| Antony Higginbotham | Con | Burnley | No | ||
| Ben Everitt | Con | Milton Keynes North | No | ||
| Ben Lake | PC | Ceredigion Preseli | Aye | ||
| Bob Blackman | Con | Harrow East | No | ||
| Brendan Clarke-Smith | Con | Bassetlaw | No | ||
| Brendan O'Hara | SNP | Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber | Aye | ||
| Carol Monaghan | SNP | Glasgow North West | Aye | ||
| Chris Clarkson | Con | Heywood and Middleton | No | ||
| Chris Law | SNP | Dundee Central | Aye | ||
| Chris Loder | Con | West Dorset | No | ||
| Chris Stephens | SNP | Glasgow South West | Aye | ||
| Christian Wakeford | Con | Bury South | No | ||
| Christine Jardine | LD | Edinburgh West | Aye | ||
| Claire Hanna | SDLP | Belfast South and Mid Down | Aye | ||
| Craig Whittaker | Con | Calder Valley | No | ||
| Crispin Blunt | Con | Reigate | No | ||
| Daisy Cooper | LD | St Albans | Aye | ||
| Daniel Kawczynski | Con | Shrewsbury and Atcham | No | ||
| Danny Kruger | Con | East Wiltshire | No | ||
| Darren Henry | Con | Broxtowe | No | ||
| Dave Doogan | SNP | Angus and Perthshire Glens | Aye | ||
| David Johnston | Con | Wantage | No | ||
| David Linden | SNP | Glasgow East | Aye Teller | ||
| David Mundell | Con | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | No | ||
| David Simmonds | Con | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | No | ||
| Dean Russell | Con | Watford | No | ||
| Dehenna Davison | Con | Bishop Auckland | No | ||
| Deidre Brock | SNP | Edinburgh North and Leith | Aye | ||
| Douglas Chapman | SNP | Dunfermline and West Fife | Aye | ||
| Dr Dan Poulter | Con | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | No | ||
| Dr James Davies | Con | Vale of Clwyd | No | ||
| Dr Kieran Mullan | Con | Bexhill and Battle | No | ||
| Dr Lisa Cameron | SNP | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Aye | ||
| Dr Matthew Offord | Con | Hendon | No | ||
| Dr Neil Hudson | Con | Epping Forest | No | ||
| Dr Philippa Whitford | SNP | Central Ayrshire | Aye | ||
| Drew Hendry | SNP | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | Aye | ||
| Duncan Baker | Con | North Norfolk | No | ||
| Ed Davey | LD | Kingston and Surbiton | Aye | ||
| Elliot Colburn | Con | Carshalton and Wallington | No | ||
| Felicity Buchan | Con | Kensington | No | ||
| Fiona Bruce | Con | Congleton | No | ||
| Gareth Bacon | Con | Orpington | No | ||
| Gareth Davies | Con | Grantham and Bourne | No | ||
| Gary Sambrook | Con | Birmingham, Northfield | No | ||
| Gavin Newlands | SNP | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Aye Teller | ||
| Gavin Robinson | DUP | Belfast East | No | ||
| Giles Watling | Con | Clacton | No | ||
| Greg Smith | Con | Mid Buckinghamshire | No | ||
| Hannah Bardell | SNP | Livingston | Aye | ||
| Henry Smith | Con | Crawley | No | ||
| Holly Mumby-Croft | Con | Scunthorpe | No | ||
| Huw Merriman | Con | Bexhill and Battle | No | ||
| Hywel Williams | PC | Arfon | Aye | ||
| Ian Blackford | SNP | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | Aye | ||
| Ian Paisley | DUP | North Antrim | No | ||
| Jacob Young | Con | Redcar | No | ||
| James Daly | Con | Bury North | No | ||
| James Grundy | Con | Leigh | No | ||
| James Sunderland | Con | Bracknell | No | ||
| James Wild | Con | North West Norfolk | No | ||
| Jamie Stone | LD | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Aye | ||
| Jane Stevenson | Con | Wolverhampton North East | No | ||
| Jason McCartney | Con | Colne Valley | No | ||
| Jerome Mayhew | Con | Broadland and Fakenham | No | ||
| Jim Shannon | DUP | Strangford | No | ||
| Joanna Cherry | SNP | Edinburgh South West | Aye | ||
| John McNally | SNP | Falkirk | Aye | ||
| John Nicolson | SNP | Ochil and South Perthshire | Aye | ||
| Jonathan Gullis | Con | Stoke-on-Trent North | No | ||
| Julie Marson | Con | Hertford and Stortford | No | ||
| Katherine Fletcher | Con | South Ribble | No | ||
| Kirsten Oswald | SNP | East Renfrewshire | Aye | ||
| Kirsty Blackman | SNP | Aberdeen North | Aye | ||
| Layla Moran | LD | Oxford West and Abingdon | Aye | ||
| Lee Anderson | Con | Ashfield | No | ||
| Lia Nici | Con | Great Grimsby | No | ||
| Liz Saville Roberts | PC | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | Aye | ||
| Marco Longhi | Con | Dudley North | No | ||
| Margaret Ferrier | SNP | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Aye | ||
| Marion Fellows | SNP | Motherwell and Wishaw | Aye | ||
| Mark Eastwood | Con | Dewsbury | No | ||
| Mark Menzies | Con | Fylde | No | ||
| Mark Pawsey | Con | Rugby | No | ||
| Mark Pritchard | Con | The Wrekin | No | ||
| Martin Docherty-Hughes | SNP | West Dunbartonshire | Aye | ||
| Martin Vickers | Con | Brigg and Immingham | No | ||
| Martyn Day | SNP | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Aye | ||
| Matt Vickers | Con | Stockton West | No | ||
| Mhairi Black | SNP | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Aye | ||
| Michael Fabricant | Con | Lichfield | No | ||
| Miriam Cates | Con | Penistone and Stocksbridge | No | ||
| Mr Alistair Carmichael | LD | Orkney and Shetland | Aye | ||
| Mr David Jones | Con | Clwyd West | No | ||
| Mr Gagan Mohindra | Con | South West Hertfordshire | No | ||
| Mr Gregory Campbell | DUP | East Londonderry | No | ||
| Mr John Baron | Con | Basildon and Billericay | No | ||
| Mr Jonathan Lord | Con | Woking | No | ||
| Mr Laurence Robertson | Con | Tewkesbury | No | ||
| Mr Mark Francois | Con | Rayleigh and Wickford | No | ||
| Mr Peter Bone | Con | Wellingborough | No Teller | ||
| Mr Philip Hollobone | Con | Kettering | No | ||
| Mr Richard Bacon | Con | South Norfolk | No | ||
| Mr William Wragg | Con | Hazel Grove | No Teller | ||
| Neale Hanvey | SNP | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Aye | ||
| Neil Gray | SNP | Airdrie and Shotts | Aye | ||
| Neil Parish | Con | Tiverton and Honiton | No | ||
| Nick Fletcher | Con | Don Valley | No | ||
| Nicola Richards | Con | West Bromwich East | No | ||
| Owen Thompson | SNP | Midlothian | Aye | ||
| Patricia Gibson | SNP | North Ayrshire and Arran | Aye | ||
| Patrick Grady | SNP | Glasgow North | Aye | ||
| Paul Bristow | Con | Peterborough | No | ||
| Paul Holmes | Con | Hamble Valley | No | ||
| Paul Howell | Con | Sedgefield | No | ||
| Pete Wishart | SNP | Perth and Kinross-shire | Aye | ||
| Peter Aldous | Con | Waveney | No | ||
| Peter Grant | SNP | Glenrothes | Aye | ||
| Richard Thomson | SNP | Gordon | Aye | ||
| Rob Butler | Con | Aylesbury | No | ||
| Robbie Moore | Con | Keighley and Ilkley | No | ||
| Robert Halfon | Con | Harlow | No | ||
| Robert Largan | Con | High Peak | No | ||
| Robin Millar | Con | Aberconwy | No | ||
| Ronnie Cowan | SNP | Inverclyde | Aye | ||
| Sally-Ann Hart | Con | Hastings and Rye | No | ||
| Sammy Wilson | DUP | East Antrim | No | ||
| Selaine Saxby | Con | North Devon | No | ||
| Shaun Bailey | Con | West Bromwich West | No | ||
| Simon Baynes | Con | Clwyd South | No | ||
| Simon Jupp | Con | East Devon | No | ||
| Sir Andrew Mitchell | Con | Sutton Coldfield | No | ||
| Sir Bernard Jenkin | Con | Harwich and North Essex | No | ||
| Sir Bill Wiggin | Con | North Herefordshire | No | ||
| Sir David Amess | Con | Southend West | No | ||
| Sir Desmond Swayne | Con | New Forest West | No | ||
| Sir Edward Leigh | Con | Gainsborough | No | ||
| Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | Con | North Cotswolds | No | ||
| Sir Julian Lewis | Con | New Forest East | No | ||
| Sir Liam Fox | Con | North Somerset | No | ||
| Sir Mike Penning | Con | Hemel Hempstead | No | ||
| Sir Paul Beresford | Con | Mole Valley | No | ||
| Sir Robert Goodwill | Con | Scarborough and Whitby | No | ||
| Stephen Farry | APNI | North Down | Aye | ||
| Stephen Flynn | SNP | Aberdeen South | Aye | ||
| Stephen Hammond | Con | Wimbledon | No | ||
| Steve Brine | Con | Winchester | No | ||
| Steven Bonnar | SNP | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Aye | ||
| Stewart Hosie | SNP | Dundee East | Aye | ||
| Stuart Anderson | Con | South Shropshire | No | ||
| Stuart C McDonald | SNP | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Aye | ||
| Tim Farron | LD | Westmorland and Lonsdale | Aye | ||
| Tim Loughton | Con | East Worthing and Shoreham | No | ||
| Tom Hunt | Con | Ipswich | No | ||
| Tom Randall | Con | Gedling | No | ||
| Tommy Sheppard | SNP | Edinburgh East | Aye | ||
| Wendy Chamberlain | LD | North East Fife | Aye | ||
| Aaron Bell | Con | Newcastle-under-Lyme | — | ||
| Adam Afriyie | Con | Windsor | — | ||
| Adam Holloway | Con | Gravesham | — | ||
| Afzal Khan | Lab | Manchester Rusholme | — | ||
| Alan Mak | Con | Havant | — | ||
| Alberto Costa | Con | South Leicestershire | — | ||
| Alex Burghart | Con | Brentwood and Ongar | — | ||
| Alex Chalk | Con | Cheltenham | — | ||
| Alex Cunningham | Lab | Stockton North | — | ||
| Alex Davies-Jones | Lab | Pontypridd | — | ||
| Alex Norris | Lab | Nottingham North and Kimberley | — | ||
| Alex Sobel | Lab | Leeds Central and Headingley | — | ||
| Alicia Kearns | Con | Rutland and Stamford | — | ||
| Alison McGovern | Lab | Birkenhead | — | ||
| Alun Cairns | Con | Vale of Glamorgan | — | ||
| Amanda Solloway | Con | Derby North | — | ||
| Amy Callaghan | SNP | East Dunbartonshire | — | ||
| Andrew Bowie | Con | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | — | ||
| Andrew Bridgen | Ind | North West Leicestershire | — | ||
| Andrew Gwynne | Ind | Gorton and Denton | — | ||
| Andrew Lewer | Con | Northampton South | — | ||
| Andrew Stephenson | Con | Pendle | — | ||
| Andy McDonald | Lab | Middlesbrough and Thornaby East | — | ||
| Andy Slaughter | Lab | Hammersmith and Chiswick | — | ||
| Angela Rayner | Lab | Ashton-under-Lyne | — | ||
| Angela Richardson | Con | Guildford | — | ||
| Angus Brendan MacNeil | Ind | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | — | ||
| Anna McMorrin | Lab | Cardiff North | — | ||
| Anne Marie Morris | Con | Newton Abbot | — | ||
| Anne-Marie Trevelyan | Con | Berwick-upon-Tweed | — | ||
| Anneliese Dodds | Lab | Oxford East | — | ||
| Anthony Browne | Con | South Cambridgeshire | — | ||
| Apsana Begum | Lab | Poplar and Limehouse | — | ||
| Bambos Charalambous | Lab | Southgate and Wood Green | — | ||
| Barry Gardiner | Lab | Brent West | — | ||
| Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Lab | Clapham and Brixton Hill | — | ||
| Ben Bradley | Con | Mansfield | — | ||
| Beth Winter | Lab | Cynon Valley | — | ||
| Bill Esterson | Lab | Sefton Central | — | ||
| Bim Afolami | Con | Hitchin and Harpenden | — | ||
| Bob Seely | Con | Isle of Wight | — | ||
| Bob Stewart | Con | Beckenham | — | ||
| Boris Johnson | Con | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | — | ||
| Bridget Phillipson | Lab | Houghton and Sunderland South | — | ||
| Carla Lockhart | DUP | Upper Bann | — | ||
| Caroline Ansell | Con | Eastbourne | — | ||
| Caroline Lucas | Green | Brighton, Pavilion | — | ||
| Caroline Nokes | Con | Romsey and Southampton North | — | ||
| Carolyn Harris | Lab | Neath and Swansea East | — | ||
| Cat Smith | Lab | Lancaster and Wyre | — | ||
| Catherine McKinnell | Lab | Newcastle upon Tyne North | — | ||
| Catherine West | Lab | Hornsey and Friern Barnet | — | ||
| Charlotte Nichols | Lab | Warrington North | — | ||
| Cherilyn Mackrory | Con | Truro and Falmouth | — | ||
| Chloe Smith | Con | Norwich North | — | ||
| Chris Bryant | Lab | Rhondda and Ogmore | — | ||
| Chris Elmore | Lab | Bridgend | — | ||
| Chris Evans | Lab | Caerphilly | — | ||
| Chris Green | Con | Bolton West | — | ||
| Chris Hazzard | SF | South Down | — | ||
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Con | Daventry | — | ||
| Chris Philp | Con | Croydon South | — | ||
| Chris Skidmore | Con | Kingswood | — | ||
| Christian Matheson | Ind | City of Chester | — | ||
| Christina Rees | Lab | Neath | — | ||
| Christopher Pincher | Ind | Tamworth | — | ||
| Claire Coutinho | Con | East Surrey | — | ||
| Claudia Webbe | Ind | Leicester East | — | ||
| Clive Efford | Lab | Eltham and Chislehurst | — | ||
| Clive Lewis | Lab | Norwich South | — | ||
| Colleen Fletcher | Lab | Coventry North East | — | ||
| Colum Eastwood | SDLP | Foyle | — | ||
| Conor McGinn | Ind | St Helens North | — | ||
| Craig Tracey | Con | North Warwickshire | — | ||
| Craig Williams | Con | Montgomeryshire | — | ||
| Dame Amanda Milling | Con | Cannock Chase | — | ||
| Dame Andrea Jenkyns | Con | Morley and Outwood | — | ||
| Dame Angela Eagle | Lab | Wallasey | — | ||
| Dame Caroline Dinenage | Con | Gosport | — | ||
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Con | Chesham and Amersham | — | ||
| Dame Chi Onwurah | Lab | Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West | — | ||
| Dame Diana Johnson | Lab | Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham | — | ||
| Dame Harriett Baldwin | Con | West Worcestershire | — | ||
| Dame Jackie Doyle-Price | Con | Thurrock | — | ||
| Dame Karen Bradley | Con | Staffordshire Moorlands | — | ||
| Dame Maria Miller | Con | Basingstoke | — | ||
| Dame Meg Hillier | Lab | Hackney South and Shoreditch | — | ||
| Dame Nia Griffith | Lab | Llanelli | — | ||
| Dame Siobhain McDonagh | Lab | Mitcham and Morden | — | ||
| Dame Tracey Crouch | Con | Chatham and Aylesford | — | ||
| Damian Collins | Con | Folkestone and Hythe | — | ||
| Damian Green | Con | Ashford | — | ||
| Damian Hinds | Con | East Hampshire | — | ||
| Damien Moore | Con | Southport | — | ||
| Dan Carden | Lab | Liverpool Walton | — | ||
| Dan Jarvis | Lab | Barnsley North | — | ||
| Daniel Zeichner | Lab | Cambridge | — | ||
| Darren Jones | Lab | Bristol North West | — | ||
| David Davis | Con | Goole and Pocklington | — | ||
| David Duguid | Con | Banff and Buchan | — | ||
| David Morris | Con | Morecambe and Lunesdale | — | ||
| David Rutley | Con | Macclesfield | — | ||
| David T C Davies | Con | Monmouth | — | ||
| David Warburton | Ind | Somerton and Frome | — | ||
| Dawn Butler | Lab | Brent East | — | ||
| Debbie Abrahams | Lab | Oldham East and Saddleworth | — | ||
| Derek Thomas | Con | St Ives | — | ||
| Derek Twigg | Lab | Widnes and Halewood | — | ||
| Dominic Raab | Con | Esher and Walton | — | ||
| Douglas Ross | Con | Moray | — | ||
| Dr Andrew Murrison | Con | South West Wiltshire | — | ||
| Dr Ben Spencer | Con | Runnymede and Weybridge | — | ||
| Dr Caroline Johnson | Con | Sleaford and North Hykeham | — | ||
| Dr Jamie Wallis | Con | Bridgend | — | ||
| Dr Luke Evans | Con | Hinckley and Bosworth | — | ||
| Dr Rosena Allin-Khan | Lab | Tooting | — | ||
| Dr Rupa Huq | Lab | Ealing Central and Acton | — | ||
| Ed Miliband | Lab | Doncaster North | — | ||
| Eddie Hughes | Con | Walsall North | — | ||
| Edward Argar | Con | Melton and Syston | — | ||
| Edward Timpson | Con | Eddisbury | — | ||
| Elizabeth Truss | Con | South West Norfolk | — | ||
| Ellie Reeves | Lab | Lewisham West and East Dulwich | — | ||
| Emily Thornberry | Lab | Islington South and Finsbury | — | ||
| Emma Hardy | Lab | Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice | — | ||
| Emma Lewell | Lab | South Shields | — | ||
| Esther McVey | Con | Tatton | — | ||
| Fabian Hamilton | Lab | Leeds North East | — | ||
| Fay Jones | Con | Brecon and Radnorshire | — | ||
| Feryal Clark | Lab | Enfield North | — | ||
| Fleur Anderson | Lab | Putney | — | ||
| Florence Eshalomi | Lab | Vauxhall and Camberwell Green | — | ||
| Gareth Johnson | Con | Dartford | — | ||
| Gareth Thomas | Lab | Harrow West | — | ||
| George Eustice | Con | Camborne and Redruth | — | ||
| George Freeman | Con | Mid Norfolk | — | ||
| Geraint Davies | Ind | Swansea West | — | ||
| Gerald Jones | Lab | Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare | — | ||
| Gill Furniss | Lab | Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | — | ||
| Gillian Keegan | Con | Chichester | — | ||
| Gordon Henderson | Con | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | — | ||
| Graham Stringer | Lab | Blackley and Middleton South | — | ||
| Graham Stuart | Con | Beverley and Holderness | — | ||
| Grahame Morris | Lab | Easington | — | ||
| Grant Shapps | Con | Welwyn Hatfield | — | ||
| Greg Clark | Con | Tunbridge Wells | — | ||
| Greg Hands | Con | Chelsea and Fulham | — | ||
| Guy Opperman | Con | Hexham | — | ||
| Helen Grant | Con | Maidstone and Malling | — | ||
| Helen Hayes | Lab | Dulwich and West Norwood | — | ||
| Helen Whately | Con | Faversham and Mid Kent | — | ||
| Hilary Benn | Lab | Leeds South | — | ||
| Holly Lynch | Lab | Halifax | — | ||
| Iain Stewart | Con | Milton Keynes South | — | ||
| Ian Byrne | Lab | Liverpool West Derby | — | ||
| Ian Lavery | Lab | Blyth and Ashington | — | ||
| Ian Levy | Con | Blyth Valley | — | ||
| Ian Mearns | Lab | Gateshead | — | ||
| Ian Murray | Lab | Edinburgh South | — | ||
| Imran Ahmad Khan | Ind | Wakefield | — | ||
| Imran Hussain | Lab | Bradford East | — | ||
| Jack Brereton | Con | Stoke-on-Trent South | — | ||
| Jack Dromey | Lab | Birmingham, Erdington | — | ||
| Jack Lopresti | Con | Filton and Bradley Stoke | — | ||
| James Brokenshire | Con | Old Bexley and Sidcup | — | ||
| James Cartlidge | Con | South Suffolk | — | ||
| James Gray | Con | North Wiltshire | — | ||
| James Heappey | Con | Wells | — | ||
| James Morris | Con | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | — | ||
| James Murray | Lab | Ealing North | — | ||
| Jane Hunt | Con | Loughborough | — | ||
| Janet Daby | Lab | Lewisham East | — | ||
| Jeff Smith | Lab | Manchester Withington | — | ||
| Jeremy Corbyn | YP | Islington North | — | ||
| Jess Phillips | Lab | Birmingham Yardley | — | ||
| Jesse Norman | Con | Hereford and South Herefordshire | — | ||
| Jessica Morden | Lab | Newport East | — | ||
| Jim McMahon | Lab | Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton | — | ||
| Jo Churchill | Con | Bury St Edmunds | — | ||
| Jo Gideon | Con | Stoke-on-Trent Central | — | ||
| Jo Stevens | Lab | Cardiff East | — | ||
| John Finucane | SF | Belfast North | — | ||
| John Glen | Con | Salisbury | — | ||
| John Healey | Lab | Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | — | ||
| John Howell | Con | Henley | — | ||
| John Lamont | Con | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | — | ||
| John McDonnell | Lab | Hayes and Harlington | — | ||
| John Penrose | Con | Weston-super-Mare | — | ||
| John Stevenson | Con | Carlisle | — | ||
| Johnny Mercer | Con | Plymouth, Moor View | — | ||
| Jon Cruddas | Lab | Dagenham and Rainham | — | ||
| Jon Trickett | Lab | Normanton and Hemsworth | — | ||
| Jonathan Ashworth | Lab | Leicester South | — | ||
| Jonathan Edwards | Ind | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | — | ||
| Jonathan Reynolds | Lab | Stalybridge and Hyde | — | ||
| Joy Morrissey | Con | Beaconsfield | — | ||
| Judith Cummins | Lab | Bradford South | — | ||
| Julia Lopez | Con | Hornchurch and Upminster | — | ||
| Julian Knight | Ind | Solihull | — | ||
| Julian Sturdy | Con | York Outer | — | ||
| Justin Madders | Lab | Ellesmere Port and Bromborough | — | ||
| Justin Tomlinson | Con | North Swindon | — | ||
| Karin Smyth | Lab | Bristol South | — | ||
| Karl McCartney | Con | Lincoln | — | ||
| Karl Turner | Ind | Kingston upon Hull East | — | ||
| Kate Green | Lab | Stretford and Urmston | — | ||
| Kate Hollern | Lab | Blackburn | — | ||
| Kate Kniveton | Con | Burton | — | ||
| Kate Osamor | Lab | Edmonton and Winchmore Hill | — | ||
| Kate Osborne | Lab | Jarrow and Gateshead East | — | ||
| Kelly Tolhurst | Con | Rochester and Strood | — | ||
| Kenny MacAskill | Alba | East Lothian | — | ||
| Kerry McCarthy | Lab | Bristol East | — | ||
| Kevin Foster | Con | Torbay | — | ||
| Kevin Hollinrake | Con | Thirsk and Malton | — | ||
| Kim Johnson | Lab | Liverpool Riverside | — | ||
| Kit Malthouse | Con | North West Hampshire | — | ||
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Con | Spelthorne | — | ||
| Laura Farris | Con | Newbury | — | ||
| Laura Trott | Con | Sevenoaks | — | ||
| Lee Rowley | Con | North East Derbyshire | — | ||
| Leo Docherty | Con | Aldershot | — | ||
| Liam Byrne | Lab | Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North | — | ||
| Lilian Greenwood | Lab | Nottingham South | — | ||
| Lisa Nandy | Lab | Wigan | — | ||
| Liz Kendall | Lab | Leicester West | — | ||
| Liz Twist | Lab | Blaydon and Consett | — | ||
| Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Lab | Brighton, Kemptown | — | ||
| Louise Haigh | Lab | Sheffield Heeley | — | ||
| Lucy Allan | Ind | Telford | — | ||
| Lucy Frazer | Con | South East Cambridgeshire | — | ||
| Lucy Powell | Lab | Manchester Central | — | ||
| Luke Hall | Con | Thornbury and Yate | — | ||
| Luke Pollard | Lab | Plymouth Sutton and Devonport | — | ||
| Maggie Throup | Con | Erewash | — | ||
| Margaret Greenwood | Lab | Wirral West | — | ||
| Maria Caulfield | Con | Lewes | — | ||
| Maria Eagle | Lab | Liverpool Garston | — | ||
| Mark Fletcher | Con | Bolsover | — | ||
| Mark Garnier | Con | Wyre Forest | — | ||
| Mark Jenkinson | Con | Workington | — | ||
| Mark Logan | Ind | Bolton North East | — | ||
| Marsha De Cordova | Lab | Battersea | — | ||
| Mary Glindon | Lab | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | — | ||
| Mary Kelly Foy | Lab | City of Durham | — | ||
| Mary Robinson | Con | Cheadle | — | ||
| Matt Hancock | Con | West Suffolk | — | ||
| Matt Rodda | Lab | Reading Central | — | ||
| Matt Warman | Con | Boston and Skegness | — | ||
| Matt Western | Lab | Warwick and Leamington | — | ||
| Matthew Pennycook | Lab | Greenwich and Woolwich | — | ||
| Michael Tomlinson | Con | Mid Dorset and North Poole | — | ||
| Michelle Donelan | Con | Chippenham | — | ||
| Mick Whitley | Lab | Birkenhead | — | ||
| Mike Amesbury | Ind | Runcorn and Helsby | — | ||
| Mike Freer | Con | Finchley and Golders Green | — | ||
| Mike Hill | Lab | Hartlepool | — | ||
| Mike Kane | Lab | Wythenshawe and Sale East | — | ||
| Mike Wood | Con | Kingswinford and South Staffordshire | — | ||
| Mims Davies | Con | East Grinstead and Uckfield | — | ||
| Miss Sarah Dines | Con | Derbyshire Dales | — | ||
| Mohammad Yasin | Lab | Bedford | — | ||
| Mr Barry Sheerman | Lab | Huddersfield | — | ||
| Mr Ben Bradshaw | Lab | Exeter | — | ||
| Mr Ben Wallace | Con | Wyre and Preston North | — | ||
| Mr Clive Betts | Lab | Sheffield South East | — | ||
| Mr David Lammy | Lab | Tottenham | — | ||
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger | Con | Bridgwater and West Somerset | — | ||
| Mr Jonathan Djanogly | Con | Huntingdon | — | ||
| Mr Khalid Mahmood | Lab | Birmingham, Perry Barr | — | ||
| Mr Marcus Fysh | Con | Yeovil | — | ||
| Mr Marcus Jones | Con | Nuneaton | — | ||
| Mr Nicholas Brown | Ind | Newcastle upon Tyne East | — | ||
| Mr Nigel Evans | Con | Ribble Valley | — | ||
| Mr Owen Paterson | Con | North Shropshire | — | ||
| Mr Ranil Jayawardena | Con | North East Hampshire | — | ||
| Mr Richard Holden | Con | Basildon and Billericay | — | ||
| Mr Rob Roberts | Ind | Delyn | — | ||
| Mr Robin Walker | Con | Worcester | — | ||
| Mr Steve Baker | Con | Wycombe | — | ||
| Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | Lab | Slough | — | ||
| Mr Tobias Ellwood | Con | Bournemouth East | — | ||
| Mr Toby Perkins | Lab | Chesterfield | — | ||
| Mr Virendra Sharma | Lab | Ealing, Southall | — | ||
| Mrs Flick Drummond | Con | Meon Valley | — | ||
| Mrs Heather Wheeler | Con | South Derbyshire | — | ||
| Mrs Kemi Badenoch | Con | North West Essex | — | ||
| Mrs Natalie Elphicke | Lab | Dover | — | ||
| Mrs Pauline Latham | Con | Mid Derbyshire | — | ||
| Mrs Sharon Hodgson | Lab | Washington and Gateshead South | — | ||
| Mrs Sheryll Murray | Con | South East Cornwall | — | ||
| Ms Abena Oppong-Asare | Lab | Erith and Thamesmead | — | ||
| Ms Diane Abbott | Lab | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | — | ||
| Ms Karen Buck | Lab | Westminster North | — | ||
| Ms Marie Rimmer | Lab | St Helens South and Whiston | — | ||
| Ms Nadine Dorries | Con | Mid Bedfordshire | — | ||
| Ms Nusrat Ghani | Con | Sussex Weald | — | ||
| Ms Stella Creasy | Lab | Walthamstow | — | ||
| Munira Wilson | LD | Twickenham | — | ||
| Nadhim Zahawi | Con | Stratford-on-Avon | — | ||
| Nadia Whittome | Lab | Nottingham East | — | ||
| Navendu Mishra | Lab | Stockport | — | ||
| Naz Shah | Lab | Bradford West | — | ||
| Neil Coyle | Lab | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | — | ||
| Neil O'Brien | Con | Harborough, Oadby and Wigston | — | ||
| Nick Gibb | Con | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | — | ||
| Nick Smith | Lab | Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney | — | ||
| Nick Thomas-Symonds | Lab | Torfaen | — | ||
| Nickie Aiken | Con | Cities of London and Westminster | — | ||
| Nigel Adams | Con | Selby and Ainsty | — | ||
| Nigel Huddleston | Con | Droitwich and Evesham | — | ||
| Nigel Mills | Con | Amber Valley | — | ||
| Olivia Blake | Lab | Sheffield Hallam | — | ||
| Órfhlaith Begley | SF | West Tyrone | — | ||
| Pat McFadden | Lab | Wolverhampton South East | — | ||
| Paul Blomfield | Lab | Sheffield Central | — | ||
| Paul Girvan | DUP | South Antrim | — | ||
| Paul Maskey | SF | Belfast West | — | ||
| Paul Maynard | Con | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | — | ||
| Paul Scully | Con | Sutton and Cheam | — | ||
| Paula Barker | Lab | Liverpool Wavertree | — | ||
| Penny Mordaunt | Con | Portsmouth North | — | ||
| Peter Dowd | Lab | Bootle | — | ||
| Peter Gibson | Con | Darlington | — | ||
| Peter Kyle | Lab | Hove and Portslade | — | ||
| Philip Dunne | Con | Ludlow | — | ||
| Preet Kaur Gill | Lab | Birmingham Edgbaston | — | ||
| Priti Patel | Con | Witham | — | ||
| Rachael Maskell | Lab | York Central | — | ||
| Rachel Hopkins | Lab | Luton South and South Bedfordshire | — | ||
| Rachel Reeves | Lab | Leeds West and Pudsey | — | ||
| Rebecca Harris | Con | Castle Point | — | ||
| Rebecca Long Bailey | Lab | Salford | — | ||
| Rebecca Pow | Con | Taunton Deane | — | ||
| Rehman Chishti | Con | Gillingham and Rainham | — | ||
| Richard Burgon | Lab | Leeds East | — | ||
| Richard Drax | Con | South Dorset | — | ||
| Richard Fuller | Con | North Bedfordshire | — | ||
| Richard Graham | Con | Gloucester | — | ||
| Rishi Sunak | Con | Richmond and Northallerton | — | ||
| Robert Courts | Con | Witney | — | ||
| Robert Jenrick | RUK | Newark | — | ||
| Rosie Cooper | Lab | West Lancashire | — | ||
| Rosie Duffield | Ind | Canterbury | — | ||
| Royston Smith | Con | Southampton, Itchen | — | ||
| Rushanara Ali | Lab | Bethnal Green and Stepney | — | ||
| Ruth Cadbury | Lab | Brentford and Isleworth | — | ||
| Ruth Edwards | Con | Rushcliffe | — | ||
| Ruth Jones | Lab | Newport West and Islwyn | — | ||
| Sam Tarry | Lab | Ilford South | — | ||
| Saqib Bhatti | Con | Meriden and Solihull East | — | ||
| Sara Britcliffe | Con | Hyndburn | — | ||
| Sarah Atherton | Con | Wrexham | — | ||
| Sarah Champion | Lab | Rotherham | — | ||
| Sarah Jones | Lab | Croydon West | — | ||
| Sarah Olney | LD | Richmond Park | — | ||
| Sarah Owen | Lab | Luton North | — | ||
| Scott Benton | Ind | Blackpool South | — | ||
| Scott Mann | Con | North Cornwall | — | ||
| Seema Malhotra | Lab | Feltham and Heston | — | ||
| Shabana Mahmood | Lab | Birmingham Ladywood | — | ||
| Shailesh Vara | Con | North West Cambridgeshire | — | ||
| Simon Fell | Con | Barrow and Furness | — | ||
| Simon Hoare | Con | North Dorset | — | ||
| Siobhan Baillie | Con | Stroud | — | ||
| Sir Alan Campbell | Lab | Tynemouth | — | ||
| Sir Alec Shelbrooke | Con | Wetherby and Easingwold | — | ||
| Sir Brandon Lewis | Con | Great Yarmouth | — | ||
| Sir Charles Walker | Con | Broxbourne | — | ||
| Sir Christopher Chope | Con | Christchurch | — | ||
| Sir Conor Burns | Con | Bournemouth West | — | ||
| Sir David Evennett | Con | Bexleyheath and Crayford | — | ||
| Sir Gary Streeter | Con | South West Devon | — | ||
| Sir Gavin Williamson | Con | Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | — | ||
| Sir Geoffrey Cox | Con | Torridge and Tavistock | — | ||
| Sir George Howarth | Lab | Knowsley | — | ||
| Sir Greg Knight | Con | East Yorkshire | — | ||
| Sir Iain Duncan Smith | Con | Chingford and Woodford Green | — | ||
| Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg | Con | North East Somerset | — | ||
| Sir Jake Berry | Con | Rossendale and Darwen | — | ||
| Sir James Cleverly | Con | Braintree | — | ||
| Sir James Duddridge | Con | Rochford and Southend East | — | ||
| Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson | Ind | Lagan Valley | — | ||
| Sir Jeremy Hunt | Con | Godalming and Ash | — | ||
| Sir Jeremy Quin | Con | Horsham | — | ||
| Sir Jeremy Wright | Con | Kenilworth and Southam | — | ||
| Sir John Hayes | Con | South Holland and The Deepings | — | ||
| Sir John Whittingdale | Con | Maldon | — | ||
| Sir Julian Smith | Con | Skipton and Ripon | — | ||
| Sir Keir Starmer | Lab | Holborn and St Pancras | — | ||
| Sir Lindsay Hoyle | Spk | Chorley | — | ||
| Sir Mark Hendrick | Lab | Preston | — | ||
| Sir Mark Spencer | Con | Sherwood | — | ||
| Sir Mark Tami | Lab | Alyn and Deeside | — | ||
| Sir Mel Stride | Con | Central Devon | — | ||
| Sir Michael Ellis | Con | Northampton North | — | ||
| Sir Oliver Dowden | Con | Hertsmere | — | ||
| Sir Oliver Heald | Con | North East Hertfordshire | — | ||
| Sir Peter Bottomley | Con | Worthing West | — | ||
| Sir Philip Davies | Con | Shipley | — | ||
| Sir Robert Buckland | Con | South Swindon | — | ||
| Sir Robert Neill | Con | Bromley and Chislehurst | — | ||
| Sir Robert Syms | Con | Poole | — | ||
| Sir Roger Gale | Con | Herne Bay and Sandwich | — | ||
| Sir Sajid Javid | Con | Bromsgrove | — | ||
| Sir Simon Clarke | Con | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | — | ||
| Sir Stephen Timms | Lab | East Ham | — | ||
| Sir William Cash | Con | Stone | — | ||
| Stephanie Peacock | Lab | Barnsley South | — | ||
| Stephen Crabb | Con | Preseli Pembrokeshire | — | ||
| Stephen Doughty | Lab | Cardiff South and Penarth | — | ||
| Stephen Kinnock | Lab | Aberafan Maesteg | — | ||
| Stephen McPartland | Con | Stevenage | — | ||
| Stephen Metcalfe | Con | South Basildon and East Thurrock | — | ||
| Stephen Morgan | Lab | Portsmouth South | — | ||
| Steve Barclay | Con | North East Cambridgeshire | — | ||
| Steve Double | Con | St Austell and Newquay | — | ||
| Steve Reed | Lab | Streatham and Croydon North | — | ||
| Stewart Malcolm McDonald | SNP | Glasgow South | — | ||
| Stuart Andrew | Con | Daventry | — | ||
| Suella Braverman | RUK | Fareham and Waterlooville | — | ||
| Suzanne Webb | Con | Stourbridge | — | ||
| Tahir Ali | Lab | Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley | — | ||
| Taiwo Owatemi | Lab | Coventry North West | — | ||
| Theo Clarke | Con | Stafford | — | ||
| Theresa Villiers | Con | Chipping Barnet | — | ||
| Tom Pursglove | Con | Corby | — | ||
| Tom Tugendhat | Con | Tonbridge | — | ||
| Tonia Antoniazzi | Lab | Gower | — | ||
| Tony Lloyd | Lab | Rochdale | — | ||
| Tracy Brabin | Lab | Batley and Spen | — | ||
| Trudy Harrison | Con | Copeland | — | ||
| Tulip Siddiq | Lab | Hampstead and Highgate | — | ||
| Valerie Vaz | Lab | Walsall and Bloxwich | — | ||
| Vicky Ford | Con | Chelmsford | — | ||
| Vicky Foxcroft | Lab | Lewisham North | — | ||
| Victoria Atkins | Con | Louth and Horncastle | — | ||
| Virginia Crosbie | Con | Ynys Môn | — | ||
| Wayne David | Lab | Caerphilly | — | ||
| Wendy Morton | Con | Aldridge-Brownhills | — | ||
| Wera Hobhouse | LD | Bath | — | ||
| Wes Streeting | Lab | Ilford North | — | ||
| Will Quince | Con | Colchester | — | ||
| Yasmin Qureshi | Lab | Bolton South and Walkden | — | ||
| Yvette Cooper | Lab | Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley | — | ||
| Yvonne Fovargue | Lab | Makerfield | — | ||
| Zarah Sultana | YP | Coventry South | — |
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This division was rejected, with 55 Ayes and 115 Noes. Source
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