BREXIT VOTE RESULTS IN FULL: EVERY MP THAT VOTED AGAINST RISHI SUNAK - DID YOURS REBEL?

's new Brexit deal has cleared its first Commons test despite a rebellion from some Tory MPs and the DUP. MPs voted 515 to 29, majority 486, in favour of regulations to implement the Stormont brake section of the Windsor Framework.

The division list showed 22 MPs rebelled to vote against the Government.

They included former PMs Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, ex-Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan-Smith, former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg and former party chairman Sir Jake Berry.

Six MPs and independent MP, Andrew Bridgen, also voted against the brake. A further 48 Tory MPs abstained.

Conservatives

  • Adam Afriyie (Windsor)
  • Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen)
  • Peter Bone (Wellingborough)
  • William Cash (Stone)
  • Christopher Chope (Christchurch)
  • Simon Clarke (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
  • Richard Drax (South Dorset)
  • James Duddridge (Rochford and Southend East)
  • Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green)
  • Mark Francois (Rayleigh and Wickford)
  • Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North)
  • Adam Holloway (Gravesham)
  • Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood)
  • Boris Johnson (Uxbridge and South Ruislip)
  • David Jones (Clwyd West)
  • Danny Kruger (Devizes)
  • Craig Mackinlay (South Thanet)
  • Matthew Offord (Hendon)
  • Priti Patel (Witham)
  • John Redwood (Wokingham)
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset)
  • Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk)

DUP

  • Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry)

  • Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley)
  • Carla Lockhart (Upper Bann)
  • Gavin Robinson (Belfast East)
  • Jim Shannon (Strangford)
  • Sammy Wilson (East Antrim)

Independent

  • Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire)

Rishi Sunak's so-called Stormont Brake provides no actual power to veto EU laws being foisted on Britain, a Brexiteer has claimed.

Brexiteer businessman Ben Habib said despite the Prime Minister's claims to the contrary, the Windsor Framework unveiled last month is essentially no different to the Northern Ireland Protocol, the mechanism for preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland which the DUP and others argue has resulted in a border down the Irish Sea.

Ahead of the vote, the European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative Brexiteers said it was "strongly recommending" its members oppose the regulations.

Labour offered its backing in the vote on the brake aspect of the Prime Minister's Brexit deal.

The mechanism would allow MLAs in the Stormont Assembly to formally flag concerns about the imposition of new EU laws in Northern Ireland - a move that could see the UK Government veto their introduction in the region.

Speaking in the Commons today, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris told MPs: "Without this measure, Northern Ireland would continue to have full and automatic dynamic alignment with EU goods rules with no say for the Northern Ireland Assembly and no veto for amending or replacing those measures.

"That is an intolerable situation and I urge all MPs to vote to end that full and automatic dynamic alignment."

But Tory former minister Mark Francois, who chairs the ERG, asked Mr Heaton-Harris to accept the Stormont brake is not a "veto" but a "route to arbitration".

DUP MP Jim Shannon said the Windsor Framework was being "shoved" through Parliament and questioned the Conservatives' commitment to the union.

He called the deal the "Windsor knot", adding: "The United Kingdom gives the EU sovereignty over the courts and power over Northern Ireland."

The DUP is currently blocking devolution at Stormont in protest at the terms of the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol.

The protocol was designed to prevent a hard Irish border after Brexit.

It has angered unionists as it moved regulatory and customs checks to the Irish Sea, creating economic barriers on the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The UK and EU agreed the framework last month as a way to cut the red tape created by the protocol.

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