Tory MPs 'went to bed crying', Labour MP Chris Bryant told Sky News on Thursday morning, adding that they had been 'intimidated and bullied'
Tory MPs"went to bed crying", Labour MP Chris Bryant tells Sky News, adding that they had been"intimidated and bullied".It was one of those days"you think has been made up", a former Conservative adviser told Sky News last night.
"The fact is, our party's in a total mess," said Tory backbencher Danny Kruger."Hundreds of colleagues are very worried."The government argued it was committed to local consultations on fracking. That was despite the party's 2019 manifesto committing to a"moratorium on fracking" unless the"science shows categorically it can be done safely".
Later, Number 10 said Mr Stuart had been"mistakenly" told by Downing Street to say the vote should not be treated as a confidence motion, and that Conservative MPs were"fully aware" it was subject to a three-line whip.Labour MP describes chaos in Westminster Things were finally cleared up in the early hours of the morning, when Downing Street said at 1.33am:"The prime minister has full confidence in the chief and deputy chief whip.
Speaking after the vote, he said:"There was a group including several cabinet ministers who were basically shouting at them and at least one member was physically pulled through the door into the voting lobby." Transport Secretary Anne Marie-Trevelyan said she was"shocked" by the reports from the Commons, adding that it is"never acceptable" for MPs to be"manhandled" into voting.Mr Rees-Mogg said the most physical contact he had seen outside the voting lobby was a woman"affectionately patting" a man on the back.
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