Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect part 3

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Tomorrow is the Commons vote on the Privileges Committee's findings that Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Downing Street parties during lockdown

The vote is a free vote rather than being whipped either way. Tories have been told that the vote will be a one-line whip, meaning they will not be obliged to participate.

Boris Johnson is believed to have advised his backers to not vote against it.

Michael Gove confirmed on live tv that he will abstain

Tobias Elwood has u-turned on abstaining after hearing stories from voters

Rishi Sunak, who knows

Yes he was duty bound to vote No

This made me chuckle

twitter.com/taxbod/status/1670899669449179137?s=20

Bassetlaw bloke was going to abstain.

cash and Bridgen are a possibility alongside JRM, Fletcher and Nici.

Or maybe not

twitter.com/GrahamJones_MP/status/1670898938063323138?s=20

The 7

Desmond Swayne
Joy Morrisey
Karl McCartney
Adam Holloway
Heather Wheeler
Nick Fletcher
Bill Cash

He was abstaining after coming out with all that bollocks? Pathetic. He's another one whose upcoming loss of seat is going to be amusing.

I remember it too @cakeorwine doing those risk assessments, checking the fine detail to make sure all the guidance was met. If anyone had suggested social work gatherings at that time I would have thought they’d lost their mind.

Full results

https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1566

Desmond Swayne is just contemptible.

I've always thought Joy Morrisey was a pretty repulsive specimen too.

118 Tories voted for the motion, in the end. That's a third of them.

Swayne makes sense.

Rees Mogg and Nici failed to put their money where their gobs are.

She endorsed Liz Truss according to Wikipedia. That alone makes her judgement questionable.

I'm sorry for your loss, @peregrina

I sat through a zoom funeral for a loved one.

Someone who, unlike De Pfeffle Johnson, dedicated her entire life to others.

I watched her brother sit alone, sobbing.

I sat and cried, as my children tried to comfort me.

I will never forgive

I will never forget

#fuckthetories

I was going to say that he had a good point about Blair but then I reminded myself that Blair's alleged lies to Parliament were looked into and Blair was exonerated.

Blair has been responsible for more death and destruction than Johnson, but it's just not true to say that the Labour Party covered for Blair.

This. Anyone else remember their works Christmas party of December 2020? I remember it clearly - all of us on our sofas in our Christmas jumpers waving a glass of wine and a cracker at the teams screen on our laptops.

From StormShadow's link

the 6 Tories voting NO

Joy Morrisey
Karl McCartney
Adam Holloway
Heather Wheeler
Nick Fletcher
Bill Cash

The 7 figure seems to include a teller then?

118 is more Tories voting yes than I thought. Couple of surprises on the list.

Daniel Kawczynski for a start. And Leadsome.

Anyone know why the DUP didn't vote?

225 Conservative MPs did not vote either way in the Privileges Committee vote, including Rishi Sunak and most of the Cabinet.

Don't think he did vote no after all.

McCartney is beneath contempt too.

I was wondering the same thing. Quite a few of the SNP seem to have abstained as well.

You never know what people's constituents have been saying. Or constituency parties. For all the speculation about MPs getting deselected for voting yes, there's nothing to stop an association for punishing them because they didn't.

That is heartbreaking. I am so sorry.