Saturday 27 April 2019

WHO WERE THE ORIGINAL BREXIT BLOCKERS?

It's been a while since the House of Commons voted to trigger Article 50.  It's been over two years in fact, we know that because we should have left the EU after two years and we're still in!  While the vote went overwhelmingly in favour of triggering Article 50, there were still 114 MPs who voted against it.  The breakdown by party was as follows.

SNP - 50
Labour - 47 (in defiance of party whips)
Lib-Dem - 7
SDLP - 3
Independents - 3
Plaid - 2
Conservative - 1 (Ken Clarke)
Green - 1

The 47 Labour MPs who voted to block Brexit are listed below, along with how their constituencies voted.  Leave constituencies are in bold.

Heidi Alexander - Lewisham East 65% Remain
Rushanara Ali - Bethnal Green & Bow 69% Remain
Graham Allen - Nottingham North 64% Leave
Rosena Allin-Khan - Tooting 74% Remain
Luciana Berger - Liverpool Wavertree 65% Remain
Ben Bradshaw - Exeter 55% Remain
Kevin Brennan - Cardiff West 56% Remain
Rupa Huq - Ealing Central & Acton 71% Remain
Lyn Brown - West Ham 52% Remain
Chris Bryant - Rhondda 60% Leave
Karen Buck - Westminster North 66% Remain
Dawn Butler - Brent Central 57% Remain
Ruth Cadbury - Brentford & Isleworth 57% Remain
Ann Clwyd - Cynon Valley 57% Leave
Ann Coffey - Stockport 53% Remain
Neil Coyle - Bermondsey & Old Southwark 74% Remain
Ian Murray - Edinburgh South 78% Remain
Thangam Debbonaire - Bristol West 79% Remain
Mary Creagh - Wakefield 63% Leave
Stella Creasy - Walthamstow 67% Remain
Stephen Doughty - Cardiff South & Penarth 57% Remain
Jim Dowd - Lewisham West & Penge 65% Remain
Maria Eagle - Garston & Halewood 52% Remain
Louise Ellman - Liverpool Riverside 73% Remain
Paul Farrelly - Newcastle-under-Lyme 62% Leave
Vicky Foxcroft - Lewisham Deptford 76% Remain
Mike Gapes - Ilford South 57% Remain
Lilian Greenwood - Nottingham South 54% Remain
Helen Hayes - Dulwich & West Norwood 77% Remain
Meg Hillier - Hackney South & Shoreditch 77% Remain
Peter Kyle - Hove 67% Remain
David Lammy - Tottenham 76% Remain
Rachael Maskell - York Central 61% Remain
Kerry McCarthy - Bristol East 53% Remain
Catherine McKinnell - Newcastle-upon-Tyne North 57% Leave
Madeleine Moon - Bridgend 50.28% Leave
Stephen Pound - Ealing North 54% Remain
Virendra Sharma - Ealing Southall 58% Remain
Tulip Siddiq - Hampstead & Kilburn 76% Remain
Andy Slaughter - Hammersmith 69% Remain
Jeff Smith - Manchester Withington 75% Remain
Owen Smith - Pontypridd 53% Remain
Jo Stevens - Cardiff Central 68% Remain
Stephen Timms - East Ham 54% Remain
Catherine West - Hornsey & Wood Green 75% Remain
Alan Whitehead - Southampton Test 50.59 Remain
Daniel Zeichner - Cambridge 74% Remain