UK coronavirus: nearly 500 further deaths in 24 hours; MPs pass English lockdown rules by 516 votes to 38 – as it happened
by Andrew Sparrow from Science | The Guardian on (#59Y6N)
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5.46pm GMT
According to HuffPost's Paul Waugh, 21 Conservatives in total abstained.
CONFIRMED Theresa May was one of 21 Tory MPs to abstain
A further 32 Tory MPs, plus 2 tellers, voted against the lockdown regulations.
That's a quite a rebellion in total: 55 Conservatives refused to back @BorisJohnson new restrictions.
Five of the Tories were paired, so rebellion looks like 50
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