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Hello and welcome to CoffeeHasShots,

a spectator's daily political podcast. I'm Katie Bulls and I'm joined by Isva Hardman and James

Forsyfe. Now the government's Northern Ireland protocol bill has passed its second reading

with a majority of 74. It's about the worst summer unhappy MPs here. How did this play out?

So we had a lot of speeches from already prominent critics of Boris Johnson in this build

so we had Theresa May or had Andrew Mitchell, had Simon Haw, who is the chair of the Northern Ireland

Select Committee and all of them said they couldn't support the bill, they criticised in very

strong terms, had Andrew Mitchell saying it brazenly broke international law, Theresa May

listing the conditions for supporting it and saying that no, didn't meet any of those conditions

and also complaining that the protocol had never had the support of the DUP, so she said

rhetorically she didn't really understand what had changed to necessitate this.

And so it had a lot of criticism from those figures but no one voted against it. What instead

happened was there were a lot of abstentions. Now it's very difficult to gauge what are real

abstentions and what aren't because the MPs who didn't vote on this include people who

very much support it but aren't in the country including Boris Johnson himself and also MPs who

are sick and so on so it can be quite difficult to gauge what is a deliberate abstention and what

isn't but certainly Theresa May didn't vote for it and the others who I just listed Andrew Mitchell

Robert Buckland and a number of other prominent figures. What we now have is that the bill has

passed its second reading which is the very first vote on it in Parliament and will go into a

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