Boris Johnson has suffered a bruising double defeat after MPs voted to block no-deal Brexit – then halt his bid for a general election.
Jeremy Corbyn ordered Labour MPs to abstain in tonight’s historic vote on whether to hold a snap poll on Tuesday 15 October.
The Prime Minister said the vote was essential to reset Brexit talks with the EU, after MPs punctured his threat to crash out with no deal.
He taunted Mr Corbyn, claiming he was the first Labour opposition leader to refuse the chance of an election and vote confidence in a Tory PM.
But furious Mr Corbyn – who was not present for the result – said backing an election tonight would have been like taking Snow White’s poison apple.
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Instead he said Labour would back an election as soon as the Bill blocking no-deal Brexit was signed, sealed and delivered to the Queen.
Under special rules the election needed 434 MPs (two-thirds of the entire Commons) to be approved, but just 298 voted for it.
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56 MPs from a cross-section of opposition parties (below) voted directly to block an election. That includes 28 from Labour, 13 out of 15 Lib Dems, all 5 MPs from the Independent Group, 3 Plaid Cymru and 7 Independents.
More than half of all MPs, mostly from Labour, abstained in the vote. So they weren’t actively voting against an election, but they weren’t supporting Boris Johnson’s push either. Even though in this case, abstaining had exactly the same effect.
298 MPs – 284 Tories, 10 DUP, 1 Independent (Charlie Elphicke) and 3 Labour (Ronnie Campbell, Stephen Hepburn and Kate Hoey) – voted in favour of an election.
So how did your MP vote in tonight’s showdown? Search the full breakdown below.
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All 56 MPs who voted against an election
Heidi Allen (Independent)
Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Luciana Berger (Independent)
Chris Bryant (Labour)
Karen Buck (Labour)
Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat)
Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat)
Kenneth Clarke (Independent)
Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change)
Neil Coyle (Labour)
Stella Creasy (Labour)
Jim Cunningham (Labour)
Edward Davey (Liberal Democrat)
Jane Dodds (Liberal Democrat)
Paul Farrelly (Labour)
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Mike Gapes (The Independent Group for Change)
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Lady Hermon (Independent)
Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat)
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat)
Graham P Jones (Labour)
Helen Jones (Labour)
Peter Kyle (Labour)
Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru)
Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat)
Phillip Lee (Liberal Democrat)
Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change)
Stephen Lloyd (Independent)
Holly Lynch (Labour)
Sandy Martin (Labour)
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)
Liz McInnes (Labour)
Catherine McKinnell (Labour)
Madeleine Moon (Labour)
Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat)
Ian Murray (Labour)
Albert Owen (Labour)
Jess Phillips (Labour)
Matt Rodda (Labour)
Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change)
Antoinette Sandbach (Independent)
Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
Barry Sheerman (Labour)
Angela Smith (Independent)
Owen Smith (Labour)
Anna Soubry (The Independent Group for Change)
Jo Stevens (Labour)
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat)
Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat)
Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat)
Martin Whitfield (Labour)
Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru)
Phil Wilson (Labour)
Daniel Zeichner (Labour)
