Will Rishi regret running from the vote?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We have now learnt that just seven MPs supported Boris Johnson in last night's vote in parliament. But 235 of his colleagues abstained from it all together.
Why was this so hard for the governing party? What does this tell us about the relationship between Rishi Sunak and his predecessor? And why was Theresa May the only former PM to make the case for its importance?
We also ask the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley how many criminals he believes are still working within the police force - and what he's doing about it.
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| 0:12.5 | As many of that opinion say, I. |
| 0:15.0 | Aye. |
| 0:17.1 | Of the country, no. |
| 0:18.9 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:24.2 | We've got to explain the brilliance of what just happened there in the vote last night on the reporting to Boris Johnson. |
| 0:31.3 | The person shouting, no, no, no, is actually going to vote, yes, that Boris should be sanctioned for his behaviour, |
| 0:39.9 | but he is Labour's chief whip. And unless he did that, unless he shouted no, the vote would |
| 0:46.4 | have been carried unanimously, Nemcon, without dissent. And so he decided to go, no, no, no, no, |
| 0:52.4 | no, no, so that there had to be a division and they counted the number of votes of who was in favour, who was against, and who was abstaining. |
| 1:01.3 | This is a fascinating bit of arcane parliamentary procedure up close. And you understand what Labour was doing here. |
| 1:09.4 | They want to, if you like, flush out exactly who is prepared to say |
| 1:15.0 | they do not believe that the privileges report punishing Boris Johnson was right. |
| 1:21.5 | And they want to know how many conservatives have abstained from this vote, |
| 1:28.0 | and you only get to know those numbers and those names, if you have a vote. |
| 1:33.3 | So we now know that the Privileges Committee vote was won 354 to 7. |
| 1:39.3 | That's seven people who went against it. |
| 1:42.1 | 118 conservatives did vote in favour, and we should say they included around seven |
| 1:48.5 | cabinet ministers and a couple of other ministers who also report to cabinet as well. |
| 1:54.2 | But 225 conservatives just found that they had to be somewhere else, doing something else, |
| 2:04.6 | or not quite on the same page as the Privileges Committee and its findings into their former Prime Minister. |
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