European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill — Clause 1 — Membership of the European Single Market — 27 Feb 2017 at 21:15
The majority of members of the House of Lords voted against the United Kingdom seeking to remain in the European Single Market after leaving the European Union.
The House of Lords was considering the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill[1].
The proposed amendment rejected in this vote was:
- Clause 1, page 1, line 3, at end insert—
- “( ) Before a notification can be given under subsection (1), the Prime Minister must give an undertaking to negotiate under the process set out in Article 50 on the basis of the United Kingdom retaining membership of the European Single Market."
Clause 1(1) of the Bill referred to[2] stated:
- (1) The Prime Minister may notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the EU.
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Con | 206 (+2 tell) | 1 | 81.0% |
| Crossbench | 28 | 18 | 25.7% |
| DUP | 1 | 0 | 25.0% |
| Judge | 2 | 0 | 14.3% |
| Lab | 53 | 32 (+1 tell) | 40.8% |
| LDem | 0 | 79 | 77.5% |
| Non-affiliated | 5 | 4 | 25.7% |
| PC | 0 | 0 (+1 tell) | 100.0% |
| UUP | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 297 | 134 | 54.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.