Seven deluded Tories who still backed Boris Johnson exposed - how your MP voted

19 June 2023 , 22:13

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Seven deluded Tories who still backed Boris Johnson exposed - how your MP voted

Just seven MPs stood by Boris Johnson - who had once relied on his popularity among fellow Tories - and rejected a report branding him a liar.

In a miserable end to his Commons career, the former PM's supporters were nowhere to be seen as MPs overwhelmingly decided to back the findings that he misled Parliament.

Six of the Conservative MPs who opposed the Privileges Committee report have been confirmed by the division list.

They included the MP for Don Valley Nick Fletcher, who was one of the few MPs to show support for Mr Johnson during the hours-long debate on the report.

The former PM's supporters were nowhere to be seen as MPs overwhelmingly decided to back the findings that he misled Parliament (Getty Images)

He urged MPs to remember Mr Johnson is "human" and that during Covid, he "nearly died".

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The division list showed 118 Conservative MPs voted in favour of the Privileges Committee report while no vote was recorded for 225 MPs - meaning they either abstained deliberately or were busy with other engagements.

Rishi Sunak was branded “weak” as he swerved the debate to avoid picking a side.

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Nick Fletcher was one of the few MPs to show any kind of support for Boris Johnson during a debate on the report (parliament.tv)

The ayes list released immediately after the vote contained 352 names rather than the 354 announced in the chamber, but again this could be updated later by the Commons authorities.

The other five Tories who backed Mr Johnson include Brexiteer backbencher Bill Cash, who vowed to vote against the findings, citing the former prime minister's "historic achievements".

Another was Gravesham MP Adam Holloway, who has previously defended Mr Johnson against Partygate allegations by complaining about the media.

Last June he attacked BBC Newsnight by claiming that the show had portrayed the ex-PM as “Hannibal Lecter”, as he claimed the media altered Mr Johnson’s image during the investigation of the “Partygate” scandal.

Lincoln MP Karl McCartney also voted against the Privileges Committee report. He expressed his unwavering support for Mr Johnson to a local paper this week.

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The Brexiteer lamented what he perceived as personal agendas against Mr Johnson leading to a "frenzy", as he said he would be "forever grateful for the work the former Prime Minster Boris Johnson delivered whilst in office".

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Mr Johnson loyalist MP for Beaconsfield Joy Morrissey was also named, as was MP for South Derbyshire Heather Wheeler.

The seventh MP is reported to be the Tory MP for New Forest West, Sir Desmond Swayne.

Former Tory minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg was one notable name not mentioned on the Divisions list.

He said earlier today it was legitimate to challenge the findings of the Privileges Committee, and dismissed removing Mr Johnson's parliamentary pass as "ridiculous".

Brexiteer backbencher Bill Cash vowed to vote against the findings (PA)

Others include Conservative and former PPS for Boris Johnson Lia Nici, who defended her former boss in the Commons debate earlier today.

She said: "The prime minister is not the caretaker of the building, it is not their job to go round and look in rooms and decide who may be working and who may not be working".

The MP for Great Grimsby said: "I have to speak in the House today because I cannot see where the evidence is where Boris Johnson misled Parliament knowingly, intentionally or recklessly.... The reality is - is that Boris Johnson did not knowingly or intentionally mislead this House."

She went on: "No10 is full of police officers, full of security people. Why did nobody report this to the Prime Minister so that he was aware of it."

Intervening, Labour's Jess Phillips asked: "Do think that there's any chance that Boris Johnson could also have lied to her?"

Ms Nici claimed: "Actually, no I don't believe he did...sadly I believe that unelected officials, some of them, because many, many are very, very good and very professional, but some of them made a choice not to inform the then prime minister because they wanted to cover their own backs, I'm very, very sad to say."

She said: "Sadly this is all becoming part of a kind of political opportunism for those people who don't like Boris Johnson's approach."

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: "Rishi Sunak committed a cowardly cop-out.

"His failure to vote says all you need to know about this Prime Minister's lack of leadership.

“Sunak promised integrity yet when push came to shove, he was too weak to even turn up."

Full list of how MPs voted on the Boris Johnson Partygate lies report

All the Tory MPs who opposed the report

• William Cash (Stone),
• Nick Fletcher (Don Valley),
• Adam Holloway (Gravesham),
• Karl McCartney (Lincoln),
• Joy Morrissey (Beaconsfield),
• Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire)

NOTE: Seven voted against the report but so far only six names have been supplied.

All 118 Tory MPs who backed the report

• Bim Afolami (Hitchin and Harpenden),
• Nickie Aiken (Cities of London and Westminster),
• Peter Aldous (Waveney),
• Edward Argar (Charnwood),
• Duncan Baker (North Norfolk),
• Steve Baker (Wycombe),
• Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire),
• John Baron (Basildon and Billericay),
• Aaron Bell (Newcastle-under-Lyme),
• Crispin Blunt (Reigate),
• Peter Bottomley (Worthing West),
• Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine),
• Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands),
• Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West),
• Steve Brine (Winchester),
• Anthony Browne (South Cambridgeshire),
• Fiona Bruce (Congleton),
• Felicity Buchan (Kensington),
• Robert Buckland (South Swindon),
• Andy Carter (Warrington South),
• Alex Chalk (Cheltenham),
• Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds),
• Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells),
• Theo Clarke (Stafford) (Proxy vote cast by Marcus Jones),
• Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds),
• Elliot Colburn (Carshalton and Wallington),
• Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon),
• Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire),
• David T C Davies (Monmouth),
• Mims Davies (Mid Sussex),
• David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden),
• Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon),
• Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock),
• Flick Drummond (Meon Valley),
• David Duguid (Banff and Buchan),
• Philip Dunne (Ludlow),
• Ruth Edwards (Rushcliffe),
• Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East),
• Luke Evans (Bosworth),
• Laura Farris (Newbury),
• Simon Fell (Barrow and Furness),
• Mark Fletcher (Bolsover),
• Vicky Ford (Chelmsford),
• George Freeman (Mid Norfolk),
• Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire),
• Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton),
• Peter Gibson (Darlington),
• Jo Gideon (Stoke-on-Trent Central),
• Richard Graham (Gloucester),
• Damian Green (Ashford),
• Luke Hall (Thornbury and Yate),
• Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon),
• Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire),
• Damian Hinds (East Hampshire), Paul Holmes (Eastleigh),
• Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex),
• Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough),
• Fay Jones (Brecon and Radnorshire),
• Simon Jupp (East Devon),
• Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham),
• Alicia Kearns (Rutland and Melton),
• Gillian Keegan (Chichester),
• Kate Kniveton (Burton),
• John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk),
• Robert Largan (High Peak),
• Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire),
• Andrew Lewer (Northampton South),
• Julian Lewis (New Forest East),
• Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham),
• Anthony Mangnall (Totnes),
• Julie Marson (Hertford and Stortford),
• Theresa May (Maidenhead),
• Jerome Mayhew (Broadland),
• Maria Miller (Basingstoke),
• Nigel Mills (Amber Valley),
• Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield),
• Robbie Moore (Keighley),
• Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North),
• Holly Mumby-Croft (Scunthorpe),
• David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale),
• Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire),
• Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst),
• Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North),
• Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire),
• Guy Opperman (Hexham),
• John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare),
• Chris Philp (Croydon South),
• Dan Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich),
• Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane),
• Victoria Prentis (Banbury),
• Nicola Richards (West Bromwich East),
• Angela Richardson (Guildford),
• Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury),
• Douglas Ross (Moray),
• Lee Rowley (North East Derbyshire),
• David Rutley (Macclesfield),
• Gary Sambrook (Birmingham, Northfield),
• Selaine Saxby (North Devon),
• Paul Scully (Sutton and Cheam),
• Bob Seely (Isle of Wight),
• Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire),
• Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell),
• Chris Skidmore (Kingswood),
• Chloe Smith (Norwich North),
• Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon),
• Ben Spencer (Runnymede and Weybridge),
• John Stevenson (Carlisle),
• Gary Streeter (South West Devon),
• Julian Sturdy (York Outer),
• James Sunderland (Bracknell),
• Robert Syms (Poole),
• Maggie Throup (Erewash),
• Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling),
• Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes),
• Robin Walker (Worcester),
• Charles Walker (Broxbourne),
• Craig Williams (Montgomeryshire),
• William Wragg (Hazel Grove)

All 172 Labour MPs who backed the report

• Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth),
• Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow),
• Tahir Ali (Birmingham, Hall Green),
• Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting),
• Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale),
• Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South),
• Paula Barker (Liverpool, Wavertree),
• Apsana Begum (Poplar and Limehouse),
• Hilary Benn (Leeds Central),
• Clive Betts (Sheffield South East),
• Olivia Blake (Sheffield, Hallam),
• Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central),
• Ben Bradshaw (Exeter), Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West),
• Lyn Brown (West Ham),
• Chris Bryant (Rhondda),
• Karen Buck (Westminster North),
• Richard Burgon (Leeds East),
• Dawn Butler (Brent Central),
• Ian Byrne (Liverpool, West Derby),
• Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill),
• Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth),
• Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton),
• Sarah Champion (Rotherham),
• Feryal Clark (Enfield North) (Proxy vote cast by Chris Elmore),
• Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford),
• Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark),
• Stella Creasy (Walthamstow),
• Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham),
• John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead),
• Janet Daby (Lewisham East),
• Ashley Dalton (West Lancashire),
• Wayne David (Caerphilly),
• Alex Davies-Jones (Pontypridd),
• Marsha De Cordova (Battersea),
• Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West),
• Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough),
• Samantha Dixon (City of Chester),
• Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East),
• Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth),
• Peter Dowd (Bootle),
• Angela Eagle (Wallasey),
• Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood),
• Clive Efford (Eltham),
• Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central),
• Chris Elmore (Ogmore),
• Florence Eshalomi (Vauxhall),
• Bill Esterson (Sefton Central),
• Chris Evans (Islwyn),
• Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield),
• Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford),
• Mary Kelly Foy (City of Durham),
• Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough),
• Barry Gardiner (Brent North),
• Mary Glindon (North Tyneside),
• Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West),
• Nia Griffith (Llanelli),
• Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish),
• Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East),
• Paulette Hamilton (Birmingham, Erdington),
• Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle),
• Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham),
• Carolyn Harris (Swansea East),
• Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood),
• John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne),
• Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch),
• Margaret Hodge (Barking),
• Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West),
• Kate Hollern (Blackburn), Rachel Hopkins (Luton South),
• George Howarth (Knowsley),
• Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton),
• Imran Hussain (Bradford East),
• Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central),
• Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North),
• Kim Johnson (Liverpool, Riverside),
• Darren Jones (Bristol North West),
• Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney),
• Kevan Jones (North Durham), Sarah Jones (Croydon Central),
• Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East),
• Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South),
• Liz Kendall (Leicester West),
• Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon),
• Peter Kyle (Hove),
• David Lammy (Tottenham),
• Ian Lavery (Wansbeck),
• Kim Leadbeater (Batley and Spen),
• Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields),
• Clive Lewis (Norwich South),
• Simon Lightwood (Wakefield),
• Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Proxy vote cast by Chris Elmore),
• Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles),
• Holly Lynch (Halifax),
• Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston),
• Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham, Perry Barr),
• Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood),
• Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston),
• Rachael Maskell (York Central), Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak),
• Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East),
• Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden),
• Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough),
• John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington),
• Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East),
• Alison McGovern (Wirral South),
• Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North),
• Jim McMahon (Oldham West and Royton),
• Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North),
• Ian Mearns (Gateshead),
• Edward Miliband (Doncaster North),
• Navendu Mishra (Stockport),
• Jessica Morden (Newport East),
• Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South),
• Grahame Morris (Easington),
• Ian Murray (Edinburgh South),
• James Murray (Ealing North),
• Lisa Nandy (Wigan),
• Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North),
• Alex Norris (Nottingham North),
• Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central),
• Abena Oppong-Asare (Erith and Thamesmead),
• Kate Osborne (Jarrow),
• Taiwo Owatemi (Coventry North West),
• Sarah Owen (Luton North),
• Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East),
• Matthew Pennycook (Greenwich and Woolwich),
• Toby Perkins (Chesterfield), Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley),
• Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South),
• Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport),
• Lucy Powell (Manchester Central),
• Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne),
• Steve Reed (Croydon North),
• Ellie Reeves (Lewisham West and Penge),
• Rachel Reeves (Leeds West),
• Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde),
• Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Streatham),
• Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston),
• Matt Rodda (Reading East),
• Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown),
• Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall),
• Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield),
• Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn),
• Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith),
• Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood),
• Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington),
• Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent),
• Karin Smyth (Bristol South),
• Alex Sobel (Leeds North West),
• John Spellar (Warley),
• Keir Starmer (Holborn and St Pancras),
• Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central),
• Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton),
• Zarah Sultana (Coventry South),
• Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside),
• Sam Tarry (Ilford South),
• Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen),
• Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury),
• Stephen Timms (East Ham),
• Jon Trickett (Hemsworth),
• Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East),
• Derek Twigg (Halton),
• Valerie Vaz (Walsall South),
• Christian Wakeford (Bury South),
• Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green),
• Andrew Western (Stretford and Urmston),
• Matt Western (Warwick and Leamington),
• Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test),
• Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East),
• Mohammad Yasin (Bedford),
• Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge)

All 33 SNP MPs who backed the report

• Ian Blackford (Ross, Skye and Lochaber),
• Kirsty Blackman (Aberdeen North),
• Steven Bonnar (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill),
• Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith),
• Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun),
• Amy Callaghan (East Dunbartonshire) (Proxy vote cast by Brendan O'Hara),
• Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde),
• Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk),
• Martin Docherty-Hughes (West Dunbartonshire),
• Dave Doogan (Angus),
• Allan Dorans (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (Proxy vote cast by Brendan O'Hara),
• Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw),
• Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South),
• Patricia Gibson (North Ayrshire and Arran),
• Patrick Grady (Glasgow North),
• Peter Grant (Glenrothes),
• Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey),
• Stewart Hosie (Dundee East),
• David Linden (Glasgow East),
• Stuart C McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East),
• Anne McLaughlin (Glasgow North East) (Proxy vote cast by Brendan O'Hara),
• John McNally (Falkirk),
• Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West),
• Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North),
• John Nicolson (Ochil and South Perthshire) (Proxy vote cast by Brendan O'Hara), Brendan O'Hara (Argyll and Bute),
• Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire),
• Anum Qaisar (Airdrie and Shotts),
• Alyn Smith (Stirling),
• Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West),
• Richard Thomson (Gordon),
• Philippa Whitford (Central Ayrshire),
• Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire)

All 14 Lib Dem MPs who supported the report

• Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland),
• Wendy Chamberlain (North East Fife),
• Daisy Cooper (St Albans),
• Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton),
• Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale),
• Richard Foord (Tiverton and Honiton),
• Sarah Green (Chesham and Amersham),
• Wera Hobhouse (Bath),
• Christine Jardine (Edinburgh West),
• Layla Moran (Oxford West and Abingdon),
• Helen Morgan (North Shropshire),
• Sarah Olney (Richmond Park),
• Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross),
• Munira Wilson (Twickenham)

3 Plaid Cymru MPs supported the report

• Ben Lake (Ceredigion),
• Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd),
• Hywel Williams (Arfon)

2 Alba Party MPs supported the report

• Neale Hanvey (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
• Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian)

6 Independent MPs supported the report

• Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) (Proxy vote cast by Bell Ribeiro-Addy),
• Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East),
• Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr),
• Matt Hancock (West Suffolk),
• Rob Roberts (Delyn),
• Claudia Webbe (Leicester East)

Also backing the report

• Green Party MP Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion),
• Alliance MP Stephen Farry (North Down),
• SDLP MP Colum Eastwood (Foyle)
• Reclaim Party MP Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire)

Tellers for the ayes were Labour MPs Liz Twist (Blaydon) and Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East)

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