Tory rebels fail to prevent Government reversing genocide trade amendment
Here's the full list of MPs who voted to block protections against trade deals with genocidal regimes.
Here's the full list of MPs who voted to block protections against trade deals with genocidal regimes.
Is your MP among them?
“We now go to… we now go… no, I don’t think we do go to Stoke-on-Trent," Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing said.
Here's the full list of MPs who voted the amendment down.
"The staggering contempt that Tories show for the working class - not even bothering to TURN UP to the Opposition Debate," Jack Monroe said.
Tory MPs said they "did not believe in nationalising children" ahead of the vote, with one saying children have been going hungry "for years".
MPs rejected the motion by a majority of 61.
The amendment to continue existing arrangements had been successfully moved in the House of Lords by refugee campaigner and Labour peer Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child on the Kindertransport.
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