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Watch: Question Time audience member accuses Nicky Morgan of treachery

This week the ‘stop Brexit’ campaign went into overdrive after the government suffered its first defeat on the EU withdrawal bill – with 11 Tory rebels voting to back an amendment calling for a meaningful vote on the final deal. The whips now have their work cut out trying to prevent a second rebellion next week on Theresa May’s own amendment to put the exit date in the bill.

However, should Chief Whip Julian Smith’s charm offensive fail again, perhaps the government could look to last night’s Question Time for back-up. With David Dimbleby joined in Barnsley by a panel comprised of Nicky Morgan, Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey, Professor Robert Winston and Isabel Oakeshott, an audience member took umbrage with Tory rebel Morgan’s ‘treachery’ before savaging Labour’s Brexit stance:

‘We are constantly being told by these elite politicians and she [Nicky Morgan] has committed a really treacherous act last night against the Conservative Party.

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