The government won tonight’s opposition day debate on shale gas extraction, but only after confusion around whether it amounted to a vote of confidence or not. Amid scenes of carnage in the Commons, no Tory MPs defied the three-line whip to vote against Labour’s motion but some 40 did abstain. A full list of those who did is below. Some, like Ben Wallace, will have been ‘paired’ as they were away on government business, others were not:
- Nigel Adams
- Stuart Andrew
- Gareth Bacon
- Siobhan Baillie
- Greg Clark
- Geoffrey Cox
- Tracey Crouch
- David Davis
- Caroline Dinenage
- Nadine Dorries
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Phillip Dunne
- Mark Fletcher
- Vicky Ford
- Paul Holmes
- Alastair Jack
- Boris Johnson
- Gillian Keegan
- Kwasi Kwarteng
- Robert Largan
- Pauline Latham
- Mark Logan
- Theresa May
- Wendy Morton
- Priti Patel
- Mark Pawsey
- Angela Richardson
- Andrew Rosindell
- Bob Seely
- Alok Sharma
- Chris Skidmore
- Henry Smith
- Mark Spencer
- Liz Truss
- Ben Wallace
- John Whittingdale
- William Wragg
- Jeremy Wright
James Duddridge was also marked as abstaining but subsequently tweeted that his card had not scanned properly.
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