EU Withdrawal and Future Relationship — Motion (C) Customs Union — 1 Apr 2019 at 22:53

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

The motion rejected by a 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
Con236 36086.9%
DUP10 00100.0%
Green1 00100.0%
Independent14 5090.5%
Lab10 230098.0%
LDem5 1054.5%
Total:276 272091.2%

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
Richard BenyonNewburywhilst Conaye
Nicholas BolesGrantham and Stamfordwhilst Conaye
Steve BrineWinchesterwhilst Conaye
Robert BucklandSouth SwindonConaye
Alistair BurtNorth East Bedfordshirewhilst Conaye
Alex ChalkCheltenhamConaye
Kenneth ClarkeRushcliffewhilst Conaye
Alberto CostaSouth LeicestershireConaye
Jonathan DjanoglyHuntingdonConaye
Alan DuncanRutland and MeltonConaye
Tobias EllwoodBournemouth EastConaye
Mark FieldCities of London and WestminsterConaye
Vicky FordChelmsfordConaye
Luke GrahamOchil and South PerthshireConaye
Richard GrahamGloucesterConaye
Damian GreenAshfordConaye
Stephen HammondWimbledonwhilst Conaye
Richard HarringtonWatfordwhilst Conaye
Oliver HealdNorth East HertfordshireConaye
Nick HerbertArundel and South DownsConaye
Margot JamesStourbridgewhilst Conaye
Jeremy LefroyStaffordConaye
Oliver LetwinWest Dorsetwhilst Conaye
Paul MastertonEast RenfrewshireConaye
Anne MiltonGuildfordwhilst Conaye
Andrew MitchellSutton ColdfieldConaye
Nicky MorganLoughboroughConaye
Bob NeillBromley and ChislehurstConaye
Sarah NewtonTruro and FalmouthConaye
Guy OppermanHexhamConaye
Mark PawseyRugbyConaye
Victoria PrentisBanburyConaye
Antoinette SandbachEddisburywhilst Conaye
Nicholas SoamesMid Sussexwhilst Conaye
Caroline SpelmanMeridenConaye
Rory StewartPenrith and The Borderwhilst Conaye
Ed VaizeyWantagewhilst Conaye
Lord John [Missing last name for 41744]BassetlawLabno
Ronnie CampbellBlyth ValleyLabno
Stephen HepburnJarrowLabno
Kate HoeyVauxhallLabno
Siobhain McDonaghMitcham and MordenLabno
Anna McMorrinCardiff NorthLabno
Owen SmithPontypriddLabno
Jo StevensCardiff CentralLabno
Graham StringerBlackley and BroughtonLabno
Paul WilliamsStockton SouthLabno
Norman LambNorth NorfolkLDemaye

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