Those who voted in favour included Fysh, Pincher and Boris Johnson. Those against, Brady, Heaton-Harris and Walker.
Those for included Eustace, Fallon and Percy. Those against, Dowden, Quin and Skidmore.
Those who voted in favour included two Foreign Office Ministers, Alan Duncan and Mark Field.
So you think his Indicative Votes wheeze has run into a dead end? Never fear. He has a cunning plan…
Four plans are being mooted. (We propose a fifth: putting him a time machine and returning him to the Monday Club’s Immigration and Repatriation Committee.)
The Letwin plan has not exactly delivered the promised clarity. Instead, the Commons has again said what it does not want.
“Consider the consequences for trust in politics if this House forces an outcome on the people that they no longer desire.”
The Speaker will block a Government ‘notwithstanding motion’, but announced this just after allowing Letwin’s.
He suggests that it is no different to ministers passing laws with amendments they dislike, but Redwood points out they are not normally compelled to do so.
The Leader of the House is as cloth-eared as Jeremy Corbyn when it comes to dealing with her own backbenchers.
His choice: amendments from Baron, Boles, Eustace, Clarke, Corbyn, Cherry, Beckett, Fysh.
They are at least on-brand in refusing to accept the result of the vote on the proposal which has already taken place – which they lost.
We be explaining on the doorsteps why voters should send representatives to an institution we pledged to have left two months previously.