Commons approves proposals PM agreed with European Commission despite Tory and DUP opposition
The Commons has approved Rishi Sunak’s revised plan for post-Brexit Northern Ireland trade, but with a rebellion by a seeming 20-plus Conservative MPs.
The vote was passed by 515 votes to 29. While the breakdown of votes is not immediately released, with eight Democratic Unionist party MPs set to have voted against it, that is likely to have meant 21 Conservative rebels defied the three-line whip.
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