The government lost by 230 votes on Tuesday on Theresa May’s Brexit vision, with 118 Conservative MPs voting against their own leadership. Premier caught up with a few politicians to hear why they supported or rejected the deal and their predictions.
Dame Caroline Spelman, the Conservative MP for Meriden, voted in favour of the deal and said the defeat doesn’t mean the government has lost power completely: “The important thing is not to draw a simple conclusion from the way people voted last night because people voted against the deal for a whole variety of reasons…some want a second referendum, some want no Brexit at all, some want a Norway-style deal, some have leadership aspirations.
“Jeremy Corbyn gave a very big hint at the dispatch box that the thing that would make the deal more acceptable to the Labour party would be remaining in the customs union, so that will be something that will be being discussed.”
Stephen Timms, the Labour MP for East Ham voted against the deal and told Premier: “The honourable thing would be for the government to go – it clearly does not command the confidence of parliament. To be defeated on such a massive scale on the central issue it’s been dealing with is a huge vote of no confidence.”
Timms added there should be a general election, something Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for Labour in South Shields, also spoke to us about.
She said: “I absolutely welcome anything that may give us a Labour government…my belief is that the…
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