There were 15 Labour MPs who rebelled against Sir Keir Starmer and voted in favour of launching an investigation into whether he misled Parliament.
MPs voted 223 to 335 against referring the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee, over the appointment of the now-disgraced Lord Mandelson as UK’s ambassador to the US.
Fifteen of those in favour came from Sir Keir’s own party, who are as follows:
Apsana Begum – Poplar and Limehouse
Richard Burgon – Leeds East
Ian Bryne – Liverpool West Derby
Mary Kelly Foy – City of Durham
Imran Hussain – Bradford East
Brian Leishman – Alloa and Grangemouth
Emma Lewell – South Shields
Rebecca Long Bailey – Salford
Andy McDonald – Middlesborough and Thornaby East
John McDonnell – Hayes and Harlington
Graham Morris – Easington
Luke Myer – Middlesborough South and East Cleveland
Kate Osbourne – Jarrow and Gateshead East
Cat Smith – Lancaster and Wyre
Nadia Whittome – Nottingham East
A 16th Labour MP Jonathan Brash also released a statement saying he would of voted in favour of the motion today, but was otherwise engaged.
The results of the vote being read out in the House of Commons this evening | PARLIAMENT TV
The MP for Hartlepool called the use of the whip on MPs for today’s vote was “unfair” on politicians, describing it as a “serious misjudgement”.
He said: “I feel compelled to set out my position on this evening’s vote. To whip colleagues on a matter of this nature is, in my view, a serious misjudgement and deeply unfair on them.
“Regardless of the motives of the opposition parties, the sensible course would have been for the Prime Minister to refer himself to the Privileges Committee.”
He concluded that he, therefore, stands with other Labour MP who voted in favour of the sleaze probe.
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