Several Tory MPs failed to turn up to vote for the party’s opposition day motion to leave the ECHR in the Commons today. Curious…
Opposition Day motion: MoD Bicester and illegal migrants was voted down by 309 to 113. It proposed that Britain leave the European Convention on Human Rights and condemned Labour plans to house 1,256 males at a disused MoD site near Piddington. A flashpoint for the migration debate…
The motion got 100 Tory votes out of 118. Several Tory MPs who have previously expressed concern with leaving the ECHR did not vote, including:
Is every single Tory committed to Badenoch’s ECHR policy?
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.