Some would-be rebels switched sides at the last minute, while at least three others abstained.
Alex Chalk and Tania Mathias were the only MPs to vote against the Government on the Lords’ amendment.
The Conservative rebel, AKA Douglas Hogg, argued that a unilateral guarantee would grant the Government the moral high ground.
And Labour is torn between between exploiting those perils and being seen to cooperate with the Government on the EU.
Given the slow pace of change in Brussels, the vote could still go ahead on Tuesday.
Andrew Percy sounds confident that there will be sufficient Tory rebels to defeat the Government.
The number of rebels has risen; it is concentrated among post-2005 intake Tories, and in seats that are either marginal or were until recently.
Of the 37 Conservatives MPs who rebelled, only eight entered the Commons either this year or in 2010.
87 Conservatives, 10 Labour and 2 DUP back it, while the Conservative payroll abstains.
The senior backbencher writes that those who support such initiatives as Bernard Jenkin’s recent letter aren’t “the old and grumpy”.
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