EU Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes — Motion (J) — Customs Union — 27 Mar 2019 at 22:56

The majority of MPs voted against a United Kingdom wide customs union with the European Union.

The motion rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

  • That this House instructs the Government to:
  • (1) ensure that any Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration negotiated with the EU must include, as a minimum, a commitment to negotiate a permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU;
  • (2) enshrine this objective in primary legislation

Debate in Parliament |

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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 are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con234 34085.4%
DUP10 00100.0%
Green1 00100.0%
Independent13 4081.0%
Lab12 226097.1%
LDem1 1018.2%
Total:271 265089.0%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Guto BebbAberconwywhilst Con (front bench)aye
Richard BenyonNewburywhilst Conaye
Nicholas BolesGrantham and Stamfordwhilst Conaye
Steve BrineWinchesterwhilst Conaye
Alistair BurtNorth East Bedfordshirewhilst Conaye
Alex ChalkCheltenhamConaye
Kenneth ClarkeRushcliffewhilst Con (front bench)aye
Stephen CrabbPreseli PembrokeshireCon (front bench)aye
Jonathan DjanoglyHuntingdonCon (front bench)aye
Mark FieldCities of London and WestminsterCon (front bench)aye
Vicky FordChelmsfordCon (front bench)aye
George FreemanMid NorfolkConaye
Damian GreenAshfordCon (front bench)aye
Stephen HammondWimbledonwhilst Con (front bench)aye
Richard HarringtonWatfordwhilst Conaye
Oliver HealdNorth East HertfordshireConaye
Nick HerbertArundel and South DownsConaye
Simon HoareNorth DorsetCon (front bench)aye
Margot JamesStourbridgewhilst Con (front bench)aye
Jeremy LefroyStaffordCon (front bench)aye
Oliver LetwinWest Dorsetwhilst Conaye
Paul MastertonEast RenfrewshireConaye
Anne MiltonGuildfordwhilst Con (front bench)aye
Andrew MitchellSutton ColdfieldConaye
Nicky MorganLoughboroughCon (front bench)aye
Bob NeillBromley and ChislehurstCon (front bench)aye
Sarah NewtonTruro and FalmouthConaye
Mark PawseyRugbyCon (front bench)aye
Victoria PrentisBanburyCon (front bench)aye
Antoinette SandbachEddisburywhilst Con (front bench)aye
Nicholas SoamesMid Sussexwhilst Conaye
Caroline SpelmanMeridenCon (front bench)aye
Rory StewartPenrith and The Borderwhilst Con (front bench)aye
Ed VaizeyWantagewhilst Con (front bench)aye
Lord John [Missing last name for 41744]BassetlawLab (minister)no
Ronnie CampbellBlyth ValleyLabno
Ann ClwydCynon ValleyLab (minister)no
Jim CunninghamCoventry SouthLabno
Stephen HepburnJarrowLab (minister)no
Kate HoeyVauxhallLab (minister)no
Siobhain McDonaghMitcham and MordenLab (minister)no
Anna McMorrinCardiff NorthLab (minister)no
Grahame MorrisEasingtonLab (minister)no
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLabno
Graham StringerBlackley and BroughtonLab (minister)no
Paul WilliamsStockton SouthLab (minister)no

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