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    Accordingly to Sky News 91 Tory MPs voted against the Bill. There will be abstentions as well so you can confidently predict that the Bill was not supported by at least half of Conservative backbenchers, there being 206 of them - the other Conservative MPs being on the government payroll as Ministers or PPS's. It is also known that many of those who voted with the government did so reluctantly.

    This is good news, these rebels put their principles before their careers and make no mistake many of them are not normal rebel material. One junior minister and one PPS have also either resigned or been sacked from their government posts for voting against.

    This was a bad Bill and though 'pushed into the long grass' as one commentator put it, this Bill is dead and good riddance.

    Now for the fall-out.

    It is good that Conservatives did this, the LibDems needed putting in their place.

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