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Faisal Islam
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What on earth is going on? Majority of Whips Office (not the Chief), Cabinet ministers Fox, Cairns & Mordaunt and Brexit ministers Kwarteng & C H-H seem to have defied own three line whip on the Statutory Instrument to extend Article 50 - all abstained.
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Gavin Williamson no recorded vote too - apparently no pairs tonight, but some would have been given slips, and clearly vote passed on Labour votes anyway BUT 93 Tories voted against too.

I reported that at Cabinet on Monday there was a demand for free vote on SI too....
Blimey less than HALF Conservative MPs voted for a Three Line Whip on extending A50 UK law legal date SI - something they were told would cause deep legal problems. Just 150 voted for, 93 against, rest abstained. Passed on Labour votes....

This cant last
commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Deta…
12/18 Govt Whips didnt vote for vital change to align UK law to the PM’s decision to extend Article 50 from beyond 29/3, seemingly defying own three line whip... unless given “slip”.

Pincher
Spencer
Stephenson
Maynard
Whittaker
Harris
Ghani
Stewart
Milling
Donelan
Jack
Adams
Combine that with 5 Cabinet ministers who abstained or were permitted not to vote for date change - Mordaunt, Williamson, Cairns, Fox, Lewis, 2 Brexit ministers too, and the fact that IV backing rebels up to 33 now... and you see the system breaking down...
Why obey a whip who can’t even persuade themselves to obey their own whip?

Alternatively as one oracle ERG former Whip told me: “Once you lose the Whips - it’s all over”.
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