Here’s how every Sussex MP voted on the eight Brexit options
This was after the majority of MPs rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deals.
All eight options were rejected last night, some soundly, but others by very narrow margins.
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Hide AdHorsham MP Jeremy Quin was one of 22 MPs to vote against all eight options, while Worthing West’s Sir Peter Bottomley and Chichester’s Gillian Keegan voted against seven and did not vote on one option each.
Cabinet ministers including Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, who represents Hastings and Rye, did not take part in any of the votes.
1) Customs Union (264-272)
Calls for the UK to negotiate a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit
FOR: Nick Herbert (Con, Arundel and South Downs), Peter Kyle (Lab, Hove), Stephen Lloyd (Ind, Eastbourne), Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Lab, Brighton Kemptown), Sir Nicholas Soames (Con, Mid Sussex).
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Hide AdAGAINST: Bottomley (Con, Worthing West), Maria Caulfield (Con, Lewes), Nus Ghani (Con, Wealden), Nick Gibb (Con, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton), Gillian Keegan (Con, Chichester), Tim Loughton (Con, East Worthing and Shoreham), Caroline Lucas (Green, Brighton Pavilion), Huw Merriman (Con, Bexhill and Battle), Jeremy Quin (Con, Horsham), Henry Smith (Con, Crawley),
DID NOT VOTE: Amber Rudd (Con, Hastings and Rye).
2) Confirmatory public vote (268-295)
Parliament would not have been able to ratify or implement any agreement until it had been approved in a ‘confirmatory public ballot’
FOR: Kyle, Lucas, Merriman, Russell-Moyle,
AGAINST: Bottomley, Caulfield, Ghani, Gibb, Herbert, Keegan, Loughton, Quin, Smith, Soames.
DID NOT VOTE: Lloyd, Rudd.
3) Labour’s alternative plan (237-307)
Customs union with the EU and ‘close alignment’ with the single market
FOR: Kyle, Lloyd, Russell-Moyle.
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