More than 50 MPs have declared they haven’t any confidence in Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle following final night time’s chaos.
Sir Lindsay is combating to carry on after dozens of Tories and SNP MPs backed a movement demanding his exit. He sparked fury when he broke conference and allowed a Labour modification that known as for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” that should be noticed by “all sides”. It was in the end handed on the nod and not using a vote after some SNP MPs stormed out of the chamber in extraordinary scenes and the Government introduced it might boycott proceedings.
Those placing their names to an early day movement declaring no confidence in Sir Lindsay embrace Sir Graham Brady, who chairs the influential 1922 Committee of backbench Tories. It was put ahead yesterday by Tory backbencher William Wragg. The Speaker is about to carry talks with celebration leaders as we speak, whereas Tory minister Maria Caulfield mentioned on Thursday morning Sir Lindsay’s place was now “difficult”.
Sir Lindsay got here near tears on Wednesday night as he apologised to MPs amid indignant scenes after serving to Keir Starmer dodge a revolt. Mr Starmer had confronted the specter of frontbenchers resigning so they may again an SNP-led movement demanding an “immediate ceasefire”.
Sir Lindsay advised the Commons: “I thought I was doing the right thing and the best thing, and I regret it, and I apologise for how it’s ended up.” He mentioned he took the choice to permit all sides to “express their views” and that he was “very, very concerned about the security” of MPs who’ve obtained private threats over their stance on the Gaza battle.
The MPs who’ve declared they haven’t any confidence within the Speaker are
William Wragg (Conservative – Hazel Grove)
Gary Sambrook (Conservative – Birmingham Northfield)
Jill Mortimer (Conservative – Hartlepool)
John Stevenson (Conservative – Carlisle)
Dr Kieran Mullan (Conservative – Crewe and Nantwich)
Anthony Mangnall (Conservative – Totnes)
Sir James Duddridge (Conservative – Rochford and Southend East)
Jo Gideon (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Chris Green (Conservative – Bolton West)
Bob Blackman (Conservative – Harrow East)
Tom Randall (Conservative – Gedling)
Jonathan Lord (Conservative – Woking)
Karl McCartney (Conservative – Lincoln)
Derek Thomas (Conservative – St Ives)
Jack Brereton (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent South)
Tom Hunt (Conservative – Ipswich)
David Linden (Scottish National Party – Glasgow East)
Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party – Glasgow South)
Chris Law (Scottish National Party – Dundee West)
John McNally (Scottish National Party – Falkirk)
Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party – Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party – Perth and North Perthshire)
James Grundy (Conservative – Leigh)
Martyn Day (Scottish National Party – Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
Joanna Cherry (Scottish National Party – Edinburgh South West)
Patricia Gibson (Scottish National Party – North Ayrshire and Arran)
Brendan Clarke-Smith (Conservative – Bassetlaw)
Lee Anderson (Conservative – Ashfield)
Alison Thewliss (Scottish National Party – Glasgow Central)
Anum Qaisar (Scottish National Party – Airdrie and Shotts)
Sir Graham Brady (Conservative – Altrincham and Sale West)
Eddie Hughes (Conservative – Walsall North)
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, (Conservative – The Cotswolds)
Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party – Dunfermline and West Fife)
Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party – Glasgow North West)
Marco Longhi (Conservative – Dudley North)
Drew Hendry (Scottish National Party – Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)
Rob Roberts (Independent – Delyn)
Anne McLaughlin (Scottish National Party – Glasgow North East)
John Nicolson (Scottish National Party – Ochil and South Perthshire)
Simon Baynes (Conservative – Clwyd South)
Shaun Bailey (Conservative – West Bromwich West)
Matt Warman, (Conservative – Boston and Skegness)
Alyn Smith, (Scottish National Party – Stirling)
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party – Aberdeen North)
Ronnie Cowan (Scottish National Party – Inverclyde)
Steve Double (Conservative – St Austell and Newquay)
Danny Kruger (Conservative – Devizes)
Miriam Cates (Conservative – Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party – Angus)
Amy Callaghan (Scottish National Party – East Dunbartonshire)
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative – Scarborough and Whitby)
Lia Nici (Conservative – Great Grimsby)
Brendan O’Hara (Scottish National Party – Argyll and Bute)
Jonathan Gullis (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent North)
Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative – Rochester and Strood)
Alan Brown (Scottish National Party – Kilmarnock and Loudoun)