Role of MPs in Appointment of Prime Minister and Cabinet — 1 Jul 2020 at 14:10
The majority of MPs voted against MPs in the House of Commons nominating the Prime Minister and approving Cabinet members.
The motion rejected by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
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That
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leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the House of Commons to nominate the Prime Minister and approve appointments to the Cabinet;
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to establish the office of Acting Prime Minister;
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and for connected purposes.
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MPs
for which their vote in this division differed
from the majority vote of their party are marked in red.
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were ministers at the time of this vote.
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Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Stephen Farry | North Down | Alliance | aye |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con | no |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con | no |
| Lee Anderson | Ashfield | whilst Con | no |
| Stuart Anderson | Wolverhampton South West | Con | no |
| Gareth Bacon | Orpington | Con | no |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con | no |
| Shaun Bailey | West Bromwich West | Con | no |
| Duncan Baker | North Norfolk | Con | no |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con | no |
| Simon Baynes | Clwyd South | Con | no |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con | no |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | whilst Con | tellno |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con | no |
| Paul Bristow | Peterborough | Con | no |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con | no |
| Felicity Buchan | Kensington | Con | no |
| Rob Butler | Aylesbury | Con | no |
| Andy Carter | Warrington South | Con | no |
| Miriam Cates | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Con | no |
| Brendan Clarke-Smith | Bassetlaw | Con | no |
| Chris Clarkson | Heywood and Middleton | Con | no |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con | no |
| Elliot Colburn | Carshalton and Wallington | Con | no |
| James Daly | Bury North | Con | no |
| Gareth Davies | Grantham and Stamford | Con | no |
| James Davies | Vale of Clwyd | Con | no |
| Dehenna Davison | Bishop Auckland | Con | no |
| Mark Eastwood | Dewsbury | Con | no |
| Ben Everitt | Milton Keynes North | Con | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con | no |
| Katherine Fletcher | South Ribble | Con | no |
| Nicholas Fletcher | Don Valley | Con | no |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | no |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con | no |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con | no |
| Andrew Griffith | Arundel and South Downs | Con | no |
| James Grundy | Leigh | Con | no |
| Jonathan Gullis | Stoke-on-Trent North | Con | no |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con | no |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con | no |
| Sally-Ann Hart | Hastings and Rye | Con | no |
| Darren Henry | Broxtowe | Con | no |
| Antony Higginbotham | Burnley | Con | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con | no |
| Paul Holmes | Eastleigh | Con | no |
| Paul Howell | Sedgefield | Con | no |
| Neil Hudson | Penrith and The Border | Con | no |
| Tom Hunt | Ipswich | Con | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con | no |
| David Johnston | Wantage | Con | no |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con | no |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con | no |
| Simon Jupp | East Devon | Con | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | no |
| Danny Kruger | Devizes | Con | no |
| Robert Largan | High Peak | Con | no |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con | no |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con | no |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | whilst Con | no |
| Chris Loder | West Dorset | Con | no |
| Marco Longhi | Dudley North | Con | no |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con | no |
| Anthony Mangnall | Totnes | Con | no |
| Julie Marson | Hertford and Stortford | Con | no |
| Jerome Mayhew | Broadland | Con | no |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | whilst Con | no |
| Huw Merriman | Bexhill and Battle | Con | no |
| Robin Millar | Aberconwy | Con | no |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | no |
| Gagan Mohindra | South West Hertfordshire | Con | no |
| Robbie Moore | Keighley | Con | no |
| Kieran Mullan | Crewe and Nantwich | Con | no |
| Holly Mumby-Croft | Scunthorpe | Con | no |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con | no |
| Lia Nici | Great Grimsby | Con | no |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | no |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con | no |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con | no |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con | no |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | whilst Con | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con | no |
| Tom Randall | Gedling | Con | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Nicola Richards | West Bromwich East | Con | no |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con | no |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con | no |
| Dean Russell | Watford | Con | no |
| Gary Sambrook | Birmingham, Northfield | Con | no |
| Selaine Saxby | North Devon | Con | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con | no |
| David Simmonds | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con | no |
| Greg Smith | Buckingham | Con | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con | no |
| Alexander Stafford | Rother Valley | Con | no |
| Jane Stevenson | Wolverhampton North East | Con | no |
| James Sunderland | Bracknell | Con | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | no |
| Matt Vickers | Stockton South | Con | no |
| Christian Wakeford | Bury South | whilst Con | no |
| Giles Watling | Clacton | Con | no |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con | no |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con | no |
| James Wild | North West Norfolk | Con | no |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con | tellno |
| Jacob Young | Redcar | Con | no |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP | no |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP | no |
| Gavin Robinson | Belfast East | DUP | no |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP | no |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem | aye |
| Wendy Chamberlain | North East Fife | LDem | aye |
| Daisy Cooper | St Albans | LDem | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem | aye |
| Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West | LDem | aye |
| Layla Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem | aye |
| Jamie Stone | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem | aye |
| Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC | aye |
| Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC | aye |
| Claire Hanna | Belfast South | SDLP | aye |
| Hannah Bardell | Livingston | SNP | aye |
| Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | SNP | aye |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP | aye |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP | aye |
| Steven Bonnar | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP | aye |
| Deidre Brock | Edinburgh North and Leith | SNP | aye |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP | aye |
| Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | whilst SNP | aye |
| Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP | aye |
| Joanna Cherry | Edinburgh South West | SNP | aye |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP | aye |
| Angela Crawley | Lanark and Hamilton East | SNP | aye |
| Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP | aye |
| Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP | aye |
| Dave Doogan | Angus | SNP | aye |
| Allan Dorans | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP | aye |
| Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP | aye |
| Margaret Ferrier | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | whilst SNP | aye |
| Stephen Flynn | Aberdeen South | SNP | aye |
| Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP | aye |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP | aye |
| Peter Grant | Glenrothes | SNP | aye |
| Neil Gray | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP | aye |
| Neale Hanvey | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | whilst SNP | aye |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP | aye |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP | aye |
| Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP | aye |
| David Linden | Glasgow East | SNP | tellaye |
| Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP | aye |
| Anne McLaughlin | Glasgow North East | SNP | aye |
| John McNally | Falkirk | SNP | aye |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP | aye |
| Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP | tellaye |
| John Nicolson | Ochil and South Perthshire | SNP | aye |
| Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP | aye |
| Kirsten Oswald | East Renfrewshire | SNP | aye |
| Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | SNP | aye |
| Alyn Smith | Stirling | SNP | aye |
| Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP | aye |
| Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP | aye |
| Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP | aye |
| Richard Thomson | Gordon | SNP | aye |
| Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP | aye |
