Brexit: 'Much to play for' says Sir Roger Gale after voting against bill — as it happened
by Lucy Campbell (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#58304)
Bill passes at second reading by 340 votes to 263
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And here is the voting list on the second reading of the bill itself.
It appears only two Tory MPs voted against the bill - Andrew Percy and Sir Roger Gale. There were 30 who abstained (though this could be due to a number of reasons), including the former chancellor Sajid Javid, former attorney generals Geoffrey Cox and Jeremy Wright, and Sir Charles Walker (who, as we've established, rather stole the show).
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