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Last Updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 22:37 GMT
MPs consider fallout from EU vote



A Conservative proposal to hold a UK-wide referendum on whether to ratify the EU's Lisbon Treaty was rejected by 311 votes to 248 - a margin of 63. But how did MPs vote?

MPs WHO SUPPORTED THEIR PARTY INSTRUCTIONS

186 Conservative MPs supported the Conservative proposal
308 Labour MPs opposed the proposal
50 Liberal Democrat MPs did not vote on the proposal

29 LABOUR MPs SUPPORTED THE TORY PROPOSAL

Colin Burgon (Elmet)
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
Frank Cook (Stockton North)
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North)
John Cummings (Easington)
Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West)
David Drew (Stroud)
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich)
Frank Field (Birkenhead)
Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Roger Godsiff (Birmingham Sparkbrook & Small Heath)
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall)
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North)
Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
Lynne Jones (Birmingham Selly Oak)
John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington)
David Marshall (Glasgow East)
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby)
Anne Moffat (East Lothian)
George Mudie (Leeds East)
Denis Murphy (Wansbeck)
Alan Simpson (Nottingham South)
Dennis Skinner (Bolsover)
Graham Stringer (Manchester Blackley)
Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston)
David Taylor (Leicestershire North West)
Paul Truswell (Pudsey)
Robert Wareing (Liverpool West Derby)
Mike Wood (Batley & Spen)

13 LIB DEM MPs SUPPORTED THE TORY PROPOSAL

Annette Brooke (Dorset Mid & Poole North)
Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland)
Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale)
Andrew George (St Ives)
Sandra Gidley (Romsey)
Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South)
David Heath (Somerton & Frome)
John Hemming (Birmingham Yardley)
Paul Holmes (Chesterfield)
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham)
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West)
John Pugh (Southport)
Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge)

THREE TORY MPs OPPOSED THE TORY PROPOSAL

Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe)
David Curry (Skipton & Ripon)
John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal)

20 OTHER MPs SUPPORTED THE TORY PROPOSAL

Gregory Campbell (DUP, Londonderry East)
Nigel Dodds (DUP, Belfast North)
William McCrea (DUP, Antrim South)
Peter Robinson (DUP, Belfast East)
David Simpson (DUP, Upper Bann)
Sammy Wilson (DUP, Antrim East) Derek Conway (Independent Conservative, Old Bexley & Sidcup)
Dai Davies (Independent, Blaenau Gwent)
Respect the Unity Coalition: George Galloway (Independent, Bethnal Green & Bow)
Ulster Unionist Party: Lady Sylvia Hermon (Independent, Down North)
Stewart Hosie (SNP, Dundee East)
Angus MacNeil (SNP, Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Angus Robertson (SNP, Moray)
Alex Salmond (SNP, Banff & Buchan)
Mike Weir (SNP, Angus)
Pete Wishart (SNP, Perth & Perthshire North)
Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid Cymru, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy)
Adam Price (Plaid Cymru, Carmarthen East & Dinefwr)
Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru, Caernarfon)
Dr Richard Taylor (Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, Wyre Forest)

OTHER MPs WHO DID NOT VOTE ON THE PROPOSAL

Two Conservative
14 Labour
Eight from other parties
Two Conservative MPs and two Labour MPs were tellers for the two sides, counting MPs as they voted


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