News from Eastbourne suggests that their new Tory MP Caroline Ansell has come off the fence and decided for Leave. In her newsletter, she said: “I had first hoped to remain in a reformed EU. The renegotiation deal says everything about today’s EU – that it is only moving in one direction: ever increasing centralisation.”
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That puts the number of Tory MPs who openly disagree with David Cameron and George Osborne at 143 or some 43% of the parliamentary party…
Guido’s crowd-sourced list of MPs’ positions on the referendum has received massive interest from punters, pundits, MPs and Tory associations, and today it was used in an in-depth statistical analysis on the BBC One O’Clock News. Read the spreadsheet they are all talking about here…
Guido is launching a new crowd-sourced resource documenting how every MP is likely to vote in the referendum. It will be based on information gathered from our own political sources, campaign sources and MPs’ public comments. Click on each tab across the bottom to access the names and positions of MPs by party, and for the total number of Leavers, Remainers and Don’t Knows. Any amendments to the spreadsheet can be sent to Guido using this form – if MPs want to get in touch and tell us we have got their entry wrong, please do.
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Our MP Referendum List also documents MPs’ past positions on the EU and contrasts them with where they stand today. MPs who were previously Leavers yet are now backing Remain are highlighted in red. Guido hopes this will prove a helpful resource to pundits, punters and perhaps Conservative Associations too. We will be updating the MP Referendum List regularly throughout the campaign…