It was the week when Tory ‘mutineers’ helped inflict a dramatic defeat on the government. Now it’s extreme Brexiters who are outmanoeuvredAt 6pm last Wednesday,the Tory MP for Eddisbury, Cheshire, and Antoinette Sandbach,rose to her feet in the Commons and called on her Labour counterpart Chuka Umunna, who was progressing serenely through a speech, and to offer her some badly needed support. “Does the honourable gentleman agree that it is deeply insulting for those who possess time and again voted against their prime minister and their government to propose in this crucial bill,which will abet to set the future course of this country, that it would be wrong for us to do the proper scrutiny and to apply for votes in this house?”It was a remarkable moment. Here was a Tory MP asking a senior Labour member to sentence some of her fellow Tories for behaving shamefully and hypocritically. Umunna duly obliged.
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Source: guardian.co.uk