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Rebel MPs: the full list

79 Tory MPs rebelled against the government by voting for an EU referendum, as well as 19 Labour MPs.

By Samira Shackle Published 25 October 2011 9:33

Yesterday, the EU referendum motion was defeated by 483 to 111. In total, 79 Tory MPs defied the government to vote in favour of holding a referendum (not including the two tellers), making this the biggest ever Conservative rebellion over Europe. Here is the full list of MPs who voted against the government.

Conservatives

In all, 81 Conservative MPs rebelled against the government. Two acted as tellers for the rebels, while 79 voted in favour of a referendum. A further two MPs voted both Aye and Noe, which counts as an abstention.

Tellers

Peter Bone (Wellingborough) and Philip Hollobone (Kettering)

Rebels

Stuart Andrew (Pudsey), Steven Baker (Wycombe), John Baron (Basildon & Billericay), Andrew Bingham (High Peak), Brian Binley (Northampton South), Bob Blackman (Harrow East), Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West), Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West), Steve Brine (Winchester), Fiona Bruce (Congleton), Dan Byles (Warwickshire North), Douglas Carswell (Clacton), Bill Cash (Stone), Christopher Chope (Christchurch), James Clappison (Hertsmere), Tracey Crouch (Chatham & Aylesford), David Davies (Monmouth), Philip Davies (Shipley), David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden), Nick de Bois (Enfield North), Caroline Dinenage (Gosport), Nadine Dorries (Bedfordshire Mid), Richard Drax (Dorset South), Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster), Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble), Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park), James Gray (Wiltshire North), Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry), Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne & Sheppey), George Hollingbery (Meon Valley), Adam Holloway (Gravesham), Stewart Jackson (Peterborough), Bernard Jenkin (Harwich & Essex North), Marcus Jones (Nuneaton), Chris Kelly (Dudley South), Andrea Leadsom (Northamptonshire South), Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford), Edward Leigh (Gainsborough), Julian Lewis (New Forest East), Karen Lumley (Redditch), Jason McCartney (Colne Valley), Karl McCartney (Lincoln), Stephen McPartland (Stevenage), Anne Main (St Albans), Patrick Mercer (Newark), Nigel Mills (Amber Valley), Anne-Marie Morris (Newton Abbot), James Morris (Halesowen & Rowley Regis), Stephen Mosley (Chester, City of), Sheryll Murray (Cornwall South East), Caroline Nokes (Romsey & Southampton North), David Nuttall (Bury North), Matthew Offord (Hendon), Neil Parish (Tiverton & Honiton), Priti Patel (Witham), Andrew Percy (Brigg & Goole), Mark Pritchard (Wrekin, The), Mark Reckless (Rochester & Strood), John Redwood (Wokingham), Jacob Rees-Mogg (Somerset North East), Simon Reevell (Dewsbury), Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury), Andrew Rosindell (Romford), Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills), Henry Smith (Crawley), John Stevenson (Carlisle), Bob Stewart (Beckenham), Gary Streeter (Devon South West), Julian Sturdy (York Outer), Sir Peter Tapsell (Louth & Horncastle), Justin Tomlinson (Swindon North), Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight), Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes), Charles Walker (Broxbourne), Robin Walker (Worcester), Heather Wheeler (Derbyshire South), Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley), John Whittingdale (Maldon), Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes)

Other (voted both Aye and Noe)

Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South) and Mike Weatherley (Hove)

Labour

Labour whips also ordered party members to vote against the referendum, on the basis that it would cause unnecessary economic uncertaintly. Still, 19 MPs defied the party whip and voted in favour of it. They were:

Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley), Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West), Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North), Jon Cruddas (Dagenham & Rainham), John Cryer (Leyton & Wanstead), Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West), Natascha Engel (Derbyshire North East), Frank Field (Birkenhead), Roger Godsiff (Birmingham Hall Green), Kate Hoey (Vauxhall), Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North), Steve McCabe (Birmingham Selly Oak), John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington), Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby), Dennis Skinner (Bolsover), Andrew Smith (Oxford East), Graham Stringer (Blackley & Broughton), Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston), Mike Wood (Batley & Spen).

Liberal Democrats

Although Nick Clegg previously supported an "in/out" referendum (albeit in slightly more nuanced terms), Lib Dems were also ordered to vote against the motion. Just one MP rebelled:

Adrian Sanders (Torbay)

Other parties

Democratic Unionist Party

Eight MPs voted for the referendum:

Gregory Campbell (Londonderry East), Nigel Dodds (Belfast North), Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley), Rev William McCrea (Antrim South), Ian Paisley Junior (Antrim North), Jim Shannon (Strangford), David Simpson (Upper Bann), Sammy Wilson (Antrim East)

Independent (Unionist)

Lady Sylvia Hermon (Down North)

Green Party

Caroline Lucas (Brighton Pavilion)

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16 comments

Tue, 2011-10-25 10:19 — Grumpy Bob (not verified)

Given so many Tories voted to ignore Parliament in favour of a referendum on Europe, would they support a referendum on whether the Government should press ahead with plans to dismantle the NHS?

Tue, 2011-10-25 10:42 — swatantra nandanwar

Interesting. Amongst the usual suspects: Hoey Field and Skinner; but some surprises: Cruddas and Gisela Stuart. And the very green Caroline Lucas. All showing that they've learnt nothing about post WWII stability in Europe.

Tue, 2011-10-25 11:08 — Essex Womble (not verified)

Yesterday was an opportunity to call for a referendum for a more democratic EU, with more power to the elected Parliament rather than appointed officials and greater accountability. It was a chance for the left to call for reform of the EU, instead it allowed the Euro-sceptics, and by default UKIP and sections of the popular press to set the agenda. It was possible to vote for the referendum and be pro-democracy ,in both the UK and the EU.

Tue, 2011-10-25 11:22 — martybee (not verified)

Fog in Channel...Europe Isolated.

Wed, 2011-10-26 12:23 — Vania (not verified)

Would not expect anything else from the Tories but Caroline Lucas voted in favour?? Will never vote Green. And shame on those Labour MPs as well - they should know better than engage in cheap anti-immigration rhetoric.

Wed, 2011-10-26 12:36 — Kenisnotthemayor

Kenneth Baldry

Everything good about UK Labour Law as it is now is has come from the EU. The Tory MPs voting against the EU say that these laws are crippling UK business. Diddums! The Germans manage ok because of compulsory co-operation between managements & unions, the unions we set up for them when we won WWII. It is a pity we did not join the Euro because that would have forced us to make intelligent contributions to the present debate, instead of yah-booing from the sidelines.

Tue, 2011-10-25 12:03 — Bazpoliticsuk.blogspot.com (not verified)

well done Adrian Sanders!

Tue, 2011-10-25 12:49 — Hugh Markey (not verified)

The word on the Arab Street, explicitly the Edgeware Road( Yes, London), is that Libya has now moved to the top of countries anxious to join the EU.
Tory whingers composing the anti-EU bloc have suddenly heard the penny drop.
This meritocratic faction within the parliamentary Tory Party have come to realise that promotion prospects for any of their grouping is very slim.
The products of public schools and Oxbridge have taken up a considerable number of ministerial and cabinet posts. A given! However, as a necessity for electoral advantage, if not survival, Cameron has been forced to make the placement of women and ethnics, not to mention LibDems,a top priority.
The UK seems to be drawing an unusually large number of New European citizens westward and if Libya is now flavour of the month with the EU this demographic influx could increase in the near future.
Turkey, that most solid member of NATO, staunch defender in Korea and humiliator of Greek Cypriots, can hardly continue to be excluded.
New Libyans are hoping for a UK withdrawal, making room for their oil-rich nation to substitute.
Wishful thinking? The Scots are only now waking up to the fact that they have been patsies since North Sea Oil began to be exploited by Perfidious Albion.

Boris Turkoman

Tue, 2011-10-25 13:18 — David Lindsay

Cameron now has 81 "impossible" MPs so far as Ministerial office is concerned. Two of them were PPSes 24 hours ago. The rest of his MPs must be very, very, very pleased indeed. Apart from the Whips, that is. What are they supposed to do with 81 people who have nothing to lose?

Tue, 2011-10-25 13:34 — David Lindsay

Grumpy Bob, that's called a General Election, at least now that Ed Miliband has banished the Blairites.

Mind you, the same ought to be true of the EU. Miliband should promise legislation with five simple clauses and no need, either for never ending "renegotiation" (by whom, exactly?), or for a costly and distracting referendum.

Since the New Statesman insists that any attempt to set that out is spam, you can read it at http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2011/10/potential.html, where swatantra nandanwar can ponder that we are presently subject to the legislative will of Stalinists and Trotskyists, neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis, neoconservatives such as now run France and Germany, members of Eastern Europe's kleptomaniac nomenklatura, people who believe the Provisional Army Council to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland, and Dutch ultra-Calvinists who will not have women as candidates.

No wonder that last night's Labour rebels included Ian Davidson, Frank Field, Roger Godsiff and Kate Hoey, the heirs of Douglas Jay and Peter Shore. No wonder that last night's Tory rebels included Robin Walker and Sir Peter Tapsell, one the literal heir of Peter Walker, the other same old Peter Tapsell, as Keynesian, pro-Commonwealth and anti-neoconservative as ever. And no wonder that the Liberal Party and the SDP, both of which still exist, are now so very critical of the EU. We are the centre. The federalists are the extremists and the anti-democrats.

Tue, 2011-10-25 14:28 — Rev Peter Ratcliff (not verified)

The vote depends partly on whether you are left wing or right wing but not totally. There really was a sense in the debate (I listened to the whole 5 hours or more) of something very disturbing going on with a "political elite" on all sides dictating to the nation and attempting to silence the patriots, both left wing and right wing rebels!

Tue, 2011-10-25 14:49 — peter fitzmaurice (not verified)

this goverment has shown its true colours, they want to stop in the eu, but come the next election they will get chucked out, we should onlly vote for a party that will give the people of the uk THIER right to have a vote HASTA LA VISTA CAMERON

Tue, 2011-10-25 15:26 — David Lindsay

Tristan Garel-Jones has just told them to join "a little party somewhere that wants to leave the EU". That is the word from the grandees, including Cameron: they can all clear off to UKIP.

Then they can all lose their seats the way the SDP did; large numbers of Labour supporters wholly or broadly agreed with the SDP, just as large numbers of Conservative supporters wholly or broadly agree with UKIP, but voting in this country is tribal.

And the numbers will be made by the Lib Dems, organisationally absorbed into, but ideologically absorbing of, the Tory machine like the Liberal Unionists, Liberal Imperialists and National Liberals before them.

That is what Cameron actively wants to happen.

Tue, 2011-10-25 15:59 — Seaman T

Interesxting, but not exactly on a par with the list of conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot? The outcome was a foregone conclusion and these names can either be read as signifying freedom and diversity within the ruling party, or weakness in leadership, depending on which side of the house you sit with. It changes nothing and uncertainy remains in charge.

Tue, 2011-10-25 17:07 — Anthony (not verified)

Well done the rebels, tho i wouldn't call them rebels more like true patriots and not a bunch of lefty sell out twats, who tarnish the memory of my grandad who laid his life on the line defending the sovereignty of this country and allowing the British people to determine their own destiny.