The government won all four votes on the report stage of the Justice and Security Bill last night, but there was still a crop of Coalition rebels when each division was called, and a number of abstentions from both parties too.
The issue has excited the group of Tory MPs you see listed below, but for the Lib Dems it is an altogether more pressing matter because they will face their party’s activists this weekend at the Lib Dem spring conference in Brighton. As I reported last week, activists have prepared an emergency motion on the matter, and if selected, it will be debated before the very final stage of the Bill in Parliament, known as ping-pong.
One of the most interesting divisions is the third – division 171 – where the chairman of the 1922 Committee Graham Brady joined the rebels to vote in favour of an amendment from Labour’s Andy Slaughter.
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