Bid to muzzle the press is defeated as MPs vote to reject Lords amendment calling for Leveson Inquiry re-run
The Commons voted against plans for 'Leveson 2' for the second time in a week
MPS today voted to protect the press as the House of Lords’ bid to impose new curbs on the media was defeated in the Commons.
For the second time in a week, the Government defeated plans to hold a re-run of the Leveson Inquiry.
Labour failed to win over Tory rebels to the cause of press regulation as 301 MPs voted to ignore last night’s Lords amendment with just 289 in favour of it.
Speaking after the vote, Theresa May’s spokesman warned the Lords against any further attempts to meddle in the control of the media.
He said: “We welcome the vote. MPs have voted twice to reject a backward-looking, disproportionate and costly Leveson 2 inquiry.
“We would now urge the House of Lords to respect the wishes of the elected House.”
The Government win came after Culture Secretary Matt Hancock vowed to carry out a regular review of how the media handles sensitive data in a last-ditch attempt to head off a Commons rebellion.
He also said ministers would act if the press self-regulation regime appeared to stop working well in future.
Mr Hancock told MPs: “We have gone out of our way to offer concessions at every stage to make sure the system of press regulation is both free and fair.
“What we propose with this set of amendments is that this house can continue to debate and scrutinise the effectiveness of the self-regulation of the press, without requiring statutory regulation which we seek to avoid.
“Now is the time to look forward, not back and come together to build a vibrant, free and fair press that holds the powerful to account and rises to the challenges of our time.”
He was speaking after the House of Lords last night voted to hold a re-run of the Leveson Inquiry even though it had already been rejected by the Commons.
Peers’ decision to back a controversial amendment to the Data Protection Bill meant that MPs had to vote again even though they’d already rejected the plans.
Last week, the Commons narrowly voted against an almost identical amendment, proposed by ex-Labour boss Ed Miliband.
But the margin of victory was just nine votes – raising hopes among anti-press campaigners that they could win over enough MPs to change the result second time around.
Mr Hancock’s last-minute offer of a new amendment enshrining regular reviews of the media was designed to convince the Commons there is no need for a full-blown inquiry which could drag on for years.
It seemed to work – as the Government’s winning margin increased from nine votes to 12.
Speaking as MPs debated this afternoon, ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said anti-press campaigners only wanted to “get even with the media” by holding a Leveson re-run.
Tory MP Peter Bone – one of five Conservative rebels in last week’s vote – switched sides in today’s vote.
He suggested that it was wrong for the Lords to defy the wishes of the Commons because Theresa May vowed not to hold a “Leveson 2” inquiry in her election manifesto last year.
The only Tory rebels today were veteran Ken Clarke, Crispin Blunt and Philip Hollobone, as Dominic Grieve chose to abstain rather than opposing the Government.
Senior backbencher John Redwood said in the Commons that the peers’ vote was “rather undemocratic”, adding: “They don’t like results of referendums, they don’t like the EU Withdrawal Bill… and now they want to regulate the press because the press points out the errors of their ways.”
The Lords vote came despite senior peers warning their colleagues they risked undermining Britain’s tradition of the free press by holding a re-run of the inquiry.
How every MP voted on crunch 'Leveson 2' motion
Full guide to how every MP voted in today's crunch Commons motion - and the ones who've changed their vote since last week.
VOTED AGAINST LEVESON 2 (303)
Nigel Adams (Conservative – Selby and Ainsty)
Bim Afolami (Conservative – Hitchin and Harpenden)
Adam Afriyie (Conservative – Windsor)
Peter Aldous (Conservative – Waveney)
Lucy Allan (Conservative – Telford)
Heidi Allen (Conservative – South Cambridgeshire)
Sir David Amess (Conservative – Southend West)
Stuart Andrew (Conservative – Pudsey)
Edward Argar (Conservative – Charnwood)
Victoria Atkins (Conservative – Louth and Horncastle)
Richard Bacon (Conservative – South Norfolk)
Kemi Badenoch (Conservative – Saffron Walden)
Steve Baker (Conservative – Wycombe)
Harriett Baldwin (Conservative – West Worcestershire)
Stephen Barclay (Conservative – North East Cambridgeshire)
John Baron (Conservative – Basildon and Billericay)
Guto Bebb (Conservative – Aberconwy)
Sir Henry Bellingham (Conservative – North West Norfolk)
Richard Benyon (Conservative – Newbury)
Sir Paul Beresford (Conservative – Mole Valley)
Jake Berry (Conservative – Rossendale and Darwen)
Bob Blackman (Conservative – Harrow East)
Nick Boles (Conservative – Grantham and Stamford)
Peter Bone (Conservative – Wellingborough) – PREVIOUSLY VOTED IN FAVOUR
Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative – Worthing West)
Andrew Bowie (Conservative – West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Ben Bradley (Conservative – Mansfield)
Karen Bradley (Conservative – Staffordshire Moorlands)
Sir Graham Brady (Conservative – Altrincham and Sale West)
Suella Braverman (Conservative – Fareham)
Jack Brereton (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent South)
Andrew Bridgen (Conservative – North West Leicestershire)
Steve Brine (Conservative – Winchester)
James Brokenshire (Conservative – Old Bexley and Sidcup)
Fiona Bruce (Conservative – Congleton)
Robert Buckland (Conservative – South Swindon)
Alex Burghart (Conservative – Brentwood and Ongar)
Conor Burns (Conservative – Bournemouth West)
Alistair Burt (Conservative – North East Bedfordshire)
Alun Cairns (Conservative – Vale of Glamorgan)
Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party – East Londonderry)
James Cartlidge (Conservative – South Suffolk)
Sir William Cash (Conservative – Stone)
Maria Caulfield (Conservative – Lewes)
Alex Chalk (Conservative – Cheltenham)
Rehman Chishti (Conservative – Gillingham and Rainham)
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative – Christchurch)
Jo Churchill (Conservative – Bury St Edmunds)
Colin Clark (Conservative – Gordon)
Greg Clark (Conservative – Tunbridge Wells)
Simon Clarke (Conservative – Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
James Cleverly (Conservative – Braintree)
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative – The Cotswolds)
Damian Collins (Conservative – Folkestone and Hythe)
Alberto Costa (Conservative – South Leicestershire)
Robert Courts (Conservative – Witney)
Geoffrey Cox (Conservative – Torridge and West Devon)
Stephen Crabb (Conservative – Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Tracey Crouch (Conservative – Chatham and Aylesford)
Chris Davies (Conservative – Brecon and Radnorshire)
David T. C. Davies (Conservative – Monmouth)
Glyn Davies (Conservative – Montgomeryshire)
Mims Davies (Conservative – Eastleigh)
Philip Davies (Conservative – Shipley)
David Davis (Conservative – Haltemprice and Howden)
Caroline Dinenage (Conservative – Gosport)
Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative – Huntingdon)
Leo Docherty (Conservative – Aldershot)
Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Democratic Unionist Party – Lagan Valley)
Michelle Donelan (Conservative – Chippenham)
Nadine Dorries (Conservative – Mid Bedfordshire)
Steve Double (Conservative – St Austell and Newquay)
Oliver Dowden (Conservative – Hertsmere)
Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative – Thurrock)
Richard Drax (Conservative – South Dorset)
James Duddridge (Conservative – Rochford and Southend East)
David Duguid (Conservative – Banff and Buchan)
Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative – Chingford and Woodford Green)
Sir Alan Duncan (Conservative – Rutland and Melton)
Philip Dunne (Conservative – Ludlow)
Michael Ellis (Conservative – Northampton North)
Tobias Ellwood (Conservative – Bournemouth East)
Charlie Elphicke (Independent – Dover)
George Eustice (Conservative – Camborne and Redruth)
Nigel Evans (Conservative – Ribble Valley) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
David Evennett (Conservative – Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Michael Fabricant (Conservative – Lichfield)
Sir Michael Fallon (Conservative – Sevenoaks)
Mark Field (Conservative – Cities of London and Westminster)
Vicky Ford (Conservative – Chelmsford)
Kevin Foster (Conservative – Torbay)
Liam Fox (Conservative – North Somerset)
Mark Francois (Conservative – Rayleigh and Wickford)
Lucy Frazer (Conservative – South East Cambridgeshire)
George Freeman (Conservative – Mid Norfolk)
Mike Freer (Conservative – Finchley and Golders Green)
Marcus Fysh (Conservative – Yeovil)
Sir Roger Gale (Conservative – North Thanet)
Mark Garnier (Conservative – Wyre Forest)
David Gauke (Conservative – South West Hertfordshire)
Nusrat Ghani (Conservative – Wealden)
Nick Gibb (Conservative – Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Dame Cheryl Gillan (Conservative – Chesham and Amersham)
Paul Girvan (Democratic Unionist Party – South Antrim)
John Glen (Conservative – Salisbury)
Zac Goldsmith (Conservative – Richmond Park)
Mr Robert Goodwill (Conservative – Scarborough and Whitby)
Michael Gove (Conservative – Surrey Heath)
Luke Graham (Conservative – Ochil and South Perthshire)
Richard Graham (Conservative – Gloucester)
Bill Grant (Conservative – Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Helen Grant (Conservative – Maidstone and The Weald)
James Gray (Conservative – North Wiltshire) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Chris Grayling (Conservative – Epsom and Ewell)
Chris Green (Conservative – Bolton West)
Damian Green (Conservative – Ashford)
Justine Greening (Conservative – Putney)
Andrew Griffiths (Conservative – Burton)
Sam Gyimah (Conservative – East Surrey)
Kirstene Hair (Conservative – Angus)
Robert Halfon (Conservative – Harlow)
Luke Hall (Conservative – Thornbury and Yate)
Philip Hammond (Conservative – Runnymede and Weybridge) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Stephen Hammond (Conservative – Wimbledon)
Matt Hancock (Conservative – West Suffolk)
Greg Hands (Conservative – Chelsea and Fulham)
Mark Harper (Conservative – Forest of Dean)
Richard Harrington (Conservative – Watford) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Rebecca Harris (Conservative – Castle Point)
Trudy Harrison (Conservative – Copeland)
Simon Hart (Conservative – Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire)
John Hayes (Conservative – South Holland and The Deepings)
Sir Oliver Heald (Conservative – North East Hertfordshire)
James Heappey (Conservative – Wells)
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative – Daventry)
Peter Heaton-Jones (Conservative – North Devon)
Gordon Henderson (Conservative – Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
Nick Herbert (Conservative – Arundel and South Downs)
Damian Hinds (Conservative – East Hampshire)
Simon Hoare (Conservative – North Dorset)
George Hollingbery (Conservative – Meon Valley)
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative – Thirsk and Malton)
John Howell (Conservative – Henley)
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative – Mid Worcestershire)
Eddie Hughes (Conservative – Walsall North)
Jeremy Hunt (Conservative – South West Surrey)
Nick Hurd (Conservative – Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner)
Alister Jack (Conservative – Dumfries and Galloway)
Margot James (Conservative – Stourbridge)
Sajid Javid (Conservative – Bromsgrove)
Ranil Jayawardena (Conservative – North East Hampshire)
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative – Harwich and North Essex)
Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative – Morley and Outwood)
Robert Jenrick (Conservative – Newark)
Caroline Johnson (Conservative – Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Gareth Johnson (Conservative – Dartford)
Joseph Johnson (Conservative – Orpington)
Andrew Jones (Conservative – Harrogate and Knaresborough)
David Jones (Conservative – Clwyd West)
Marcus Jones (Conservative – Nuneaton)
Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative – Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Gillian Keegan (Conservative – Chichester)
Seema Kennedy (Conservative – South Ribble)
Stephen Kerr (Conservative – Stirling)
Julian Knight (Conservative – Solihull)
Sir Greg Knight (Conservative – East Yorkshire)
Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative – Spelthorne)
John Lamont (Conservative – Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)
Mark Lancaster (Conservative – Milton Keynes North)
Pauline Latham (Conservative – Mid Derbyshire)
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative – South Northamptonshire)
Phillip Lee (Conservative – Bracknell)
Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative – Stafford)
Sir Edward Leigh (Conservative – Gainsborough)
Sir Oliver Letwin (Conservative – West Dorset)
Andrew Lewer (Conservative – Northampton South)
Brandon Lewis (Conservative – Great Yarmouth)
Julian Lewis (Conservative – New Forest East)
Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative – Bridgwater and West Somerset)
David Lidington (Conservative – Aylesbury)
Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party – Belfast South)
Julia Lopez (Conservative – Hornchurch and Upminster)
Jack Lopresti (Conservative – Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Tim Loughton (Conservative – East Worthing and Shoreham)
Craig Mackinlay (Conservative – South Thanet)
Rachel Maclean (Conservative – Redditch)
Anne Main (Conservative – St Albans)
Alan Mak (Conservative – Havant)
Kit Malthouse (Conservative – North West Hampshire)
Scott Mann (Conservative – North Cornwall)
Paul Masterton (Conservative – East Renfrewshire)
Theresa May (Conservative – Maidenhead)
Paul Maynard (Conservative – Blackpool North and Cleveleys)
Sir Patrick McLoughlin (Conservative – Derbyshire Dales)
Stephen McPartland (Conservative – Stevenage)
Esther McVey (Conservative – Tatton)
Mark Menzies (Conservative – Fylde)
Huw Merriman (Conservative – Bexhill and Battle)
Stephen Metcalfe (Conservative – South Basildon and East Thurrock)
Maria Miller (Conservative – Basingstoke)
Amanda Milling (Conservative – Cannock Chase)
Nigel Mills (Conservative – Amber Valley)
Anne Milton (Conservative – Guildford)
Andrew Mitchell (Conservative – Sutton Coldfield)
Damien Moore (Conservative – Southport)
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative – Portsmouth North)
Nicky Morgan (Conservative – Loughborough)
Anne Marie Morris (Conservative – Newton Abbot)
David Morris (Conservative – Morecambe and Lunesdale) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
James Morris (Conservative – Halesowen and Rowley Regis)
Wendy Morton (Conservative – Aldridge-Brownhills)
David Mundell (Conservative – Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale)
Sheryll Murray (Conservative – South East Cornwall)
Andrew Murrison (Conservative – South West Wiltshire)
Robert Neill (Conservative – Bromley and Chislehurst)
Sarah Newton (Conservative – Truro and Falmouth)
Caroline Nokes (Conservative – Romsey and Southampton North)
Jesse Norman (Conservative – Hereford and South Herefordshire)
Neil O’Brien (Conservative – Harborough)
Guy Opperman (Conservative – Hexham)
Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party – North Antrim)
Priti Patel (Conservative – Witham)
Owen Paterson (Conservative – North Shropshire)
Mark Pawsey (Conservative – Rugby)
Sir Mike Penning (Conservative – Hemel Hempstead)
John Penrose (Conservative – Weston-super-Mare)
Andrew Percy (Conservative – Brigg and Goole)
Claire Perry (Conservative – Devizes)
Chris Philp (Conservative – Croydon South)
Victoria Prentis (Conservative – Banbury)
Mark Prisk (Conservative – Hertford and Stortford)
Mark Pritchard (Conservative – The Wrekin) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Tom Pursglove (Conservative – Corby)
Jeremy Quin (Conservative – Horsham)
Will Quince (Conservative – Colchester)
Dominic Raab (Conservative – Esher and Walton)
John Redwood (Conservative – Wokingham)
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative – North East Somerset)
Laurence Robertson (Conservative – Tewkesbury)
Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party – Belfast East)
Mary Robinson (Conservative – Cheadle)
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative – Romford)
Douglas Ross (Conservative – Moray)
Lee Rowley (Conservative – North East Derbyshire)
Amber Rudd (Conservative – Hastings and Rye)
David Rutley (Conservative – Macclesfield)
Antoinette Sandbach (Conservative – Eddisbury) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Paul Scully (Conservative – Sutton and Cheam)
Bob Seely (Conservative – Isle of Wight)
Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party – Strangford)
Grant Shapps (Conservative – Welwyn Hatfield)
Alok Sharma (Conservative – Reading West)
Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative – Elmet and Rothwell)
David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party – Upper Bann) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Keith Simpson (Conservative – Broadland)
Chris Skidmore (Conservative – Kingswood)
Chloe Smith (Conservative – Norwich North)
Henry Smith (Conservative – Crawley)
Julian Smith (Conservative – Skipton and Ripon)
Royston Smith (Conservative – Southampton, Itchen)
Sir Nicholas Soames (Conservative – Mid Sussex)
Anna Soubry (Conservative – Broxtowe)
Dame Caroline Spelman (Conservative – Meriden)
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative – Pendle)
John Stevenson (Conservative – Carlisle)
Bob Stewart (Conservative – Beckenham)
Iain Stewart (Conservative – Milton Keynes South)
Rory Stewart (Conservative – Penrith and The Border)
Mel Stride (Conservative – Central Devon) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Graham Stuart (Conservative – Beverley and Holderness)
Julian Sturdy (Conservative – York Outer)
Rishi Sunak (Conservative – Richmond (Yorks))
Sir Desmond Swayne (Conservative – New Forest West)
Sir Hugo Swire (Conservative – East Devon)
Sir Robert Syms (Conservative – Poole)
Ross Thomson (Conservative – Aberdeen South)
Maggie Throup (Conservative – Erewash)
Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative – Rochester and Strood)
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative – North Swindon)
Michael Tomlinson (Conservative – Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Craig Tracey (Conservative – North Warwickshire)
David Tredinnick (Conservative – Bosworth)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative – Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Elizabeth Truss (Conservative – South West Norfolk)
Tom Tugendhat (Conservative – Tonbridge and Malling)
Edward Vaizey (Conservative – Wantage)
Shailesh Vara (Conservative – North West Cambridgeshire)
Theresa Villiers (Conservative – Chipping Barnet)
Charles Walker (Conservative – Broxbourne)
Robin Walker (Conservative – Worcester)
Ben Wallace (Conservative – Wyre and Preston North)
David Warburton (Conservative – Somerton and Frome)
Matt Warman (Conservative – Boston and Skegness)
Helen Whately (Conservative – Faversham and Mid Kent)
Heather Wheeler (Conservative – South Derbyshire)
Craig Whittaker (Conservative – Calder Valley)
John Whittingdale (Conservative – Maldon)
Gavin Williamson (Conservative – South Staffordshire)
Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party – East Antrim)
Mike Wood (Conservative – Dudley South)
William Wragg (Conservative – Hazel Grove)
Jeremy Wright (Conservative – Kenilworth and Southam)
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative – Stratford-on-Avon)
VOTED IN FAVOUR OF LEVESON 2 (291)
Diane Abbott (Labour – Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Debbie Abrahams (Labour – Oldham East and Saddleworth) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Rushanara Ali (Labour – Bethnal Green and Bow)
Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour – Tooting)
Mike Amesbury (Labour – Weaver Vale)
Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour – Gower)
Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) – Leicester South)
Hannah Bardell (Scottish National Party – Livingston)
Sir Kevin Barron (Labour – Rother Valley)
Margaret Beckett (Labour – Derby South)
Hilary Benn (Labour – Leeds Central)
Clive Betts (Labour – Sheffield South East)
Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party – Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Ian Blackford (Scottish National Party – Ross, Skye and Lochaber)
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party – Aberdeen North)
Paul Blomfield (Labour – Sheffield Central)
Crispin Blunt (Conservative – Reigate)
Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) – Batley and Spen)
Ben Bradshaw (Labour – Exeter)
Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat – Carshalton and Wallington)
Kevin Brennan (Labour – Cardiff West)
Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party – Edinburgh North and Leith)
Alan Brown (Scottish National Party – Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Lyn Brown (Labour – West Ham)
Nicholas Brown (Labour – Newcastle upon Tyne East)
Chris Bryant (Labour – Rhondda)
Karen Buck (Labour – Westminster North)
Richard Burden (Labour – Birmingham, Northfield)
Richard Burgon (Labour – Leeds East)
Dawn Butler (Labour – Brent Central)
Liam Byrne (Labour – Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Sir Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat – Twickenham)
Ruth Cadbury (Labour – Brentford and Isleworth)
Lisa Cameron (Scottish National Party – East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)
Alan Campbell (Labour – Tynemouth)
Ronnie Campbell (Labour – Blyth Valley)
Dan Carden (Labour – Liverpool, Walton)
Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat – Orkney and Shetland)
Sarah Champion (Labour – Rotherham)
Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party – Dunfermline and West Fife) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Jenny Chapman (Labour – Darlington)
Bambos Charalambous (Labour – Enfield, Southgate)
Joanna Cherry (Scottish National Party – Edinburgh South West)
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative – Rushcliffe)
Ann Clwyd (Labour – Cynon Valley)
Vernon Coaker (Labour – Gedling)
Julie Cooper (Labour – Burnley)
Rosie Cooper (Labour – West Lancashire)
Yvette Cooper (Labour – Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford)
Jeremy Corbyn (Labour – Islington North)
Ronnie Cowan (Scottish National Party – Inverclyde) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party – Lanark and Hamilton East) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Mary Creagh (Labour – Wakefield) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) – Walthamstow)
Jon Cruddas (Labour – Dagenham and Rainham)
John Cryer (Labour – Leyton and Wanstead)
Judith Cummins (Labour – Bradford South)
Alex Cunningham (Labour – Stockton North)
Jim Cunningham (Labour – Coventry South)
Nic Dakin (Labour – Scunthorpe)
Sir Edward Davey (Liberal Democrat – Kingston and Surbiton)
Wayne David (Labour – Caerphilly)
Geraint Davies (Labour (Co-op) – Swansea West)
Martyn Day (Scottish National Party – Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
Marsha De Cordova (Labour – Battersea)
Thangam Debbonaire (Labour – Bristol West)
Gloria De Piero (Labour – Ashfield)
Emma Dent Coad (Labour – Kensington)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour – Slough)
Martin Docherty-Hughes (Scottish National Party – West Dunbartonshire)
Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) – Oxford East)
Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) – Cardiff South and Penarth)
Peter Dowd (Labour – Bootle)
David Drew (Labour (Co-op) – Stroud)
Jack Dromey (Labour – Birmingham, Erdington)
Rosie Duffield (Labour – Canterbury)
Maria Eagle (Labour – Garston and Halewood)
Angela Eagle (Labour – Wallasey)
Jonathan Edwards (Plaid Cymru – Carmarthen East and Dinefwr)
Clive Efford (Labour – Eltham)
Julie Elliott (Labour – Sunderland Central)
Louise Ellman (Labour (Co-op) – Liverpool, Riverside)
Chris Elmore (Labour – Ogmore)
Bill Esterson (Labour – Sefton Central)
Chris Evans (Labour (Co-op) – Islwyn)
Paul Farrelly (Labour – Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat – Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Marion Fellows (Scottish National Party – Motherwell and Wishaw)
Frank Field (Labour – Birkenhead) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Colleen Fletcher (Labour – Coventry North East)
Caroline Flint (Labour – Don Valley)
Yvonne Fovargue (Labour – Makerfield)
Vicky Foxcroft (Labour – Lewisham, Deptford)
James Frith (Labour – Bury North)
Gill Furniss (Labour – Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Hugh Gaffney (Labour – Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill)
Mike Gapes (Labour (Co-op) – Ilford South)
Barry Gardiner (Labour – Brent North)
Ruth George (Labour – High Peak)
Stephen Gethins (Scottish National Party – North East Fife)
Patricia Gibson (Scottish National Party – North Ayrshire and Arran)
Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) – Birmingham, Edgbaston)
Mary Glindon (Labour – North Tyneside)
Roger Godsiff (Labour – Birmingham, Hall Green)
Helen Goodman (Labour – Bishop Auckland) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party – Glasgow North)
Peter Grant (Scottish National Party – Glenrothes)
Neil Gray (Scottish National Party – Airdrie and Shotts)
Kate Green (Labour – Stretford and Urmston)
Lilian Greenwood (Labour – Nottingham South)
Margaret Greenwood (Labour – Wirral West)
Nia Griffith (Labour – Llanelli)
Andrew Gwynne (Labour – Denton and Reddish)
Louise Haigh (Labour – Sheffield, Heeley)
Fabian Hamilton (Labour – Leeds North East)
Emma Hardy (Labour – Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Harriet Harman (Labour – Camberwell and Peckham)
Carolyn Harris (Labour – Swansea East)
Helen Hayes (Labour – Dulwich and West Norwood)
Sue Hayman (Labour – Workington)
John Healey (Labour – Wentworth and Dearne)
Drew Hendry (Scottish National Party – Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)
Stephen Hepburn (Labour – Jarrow)
Lady Hermon (Independent – North Down)
Mike Hill (Labour – Hartlepool)
Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) – Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat – Bath)
Dame Margaret Hodge (Labour – Barking)
Sharon Hodgson (Labour – Washington and Sunderland West)
Kate Hollern (Labour – Blackburn)
Philip Hollobone (Conservative – Kettering)
Kelvin Hopkins (Independent – Luton North)
Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party – Dundee East)
George Howarth (Labour – Knowsley)
Rupa Huq (Labour – Ealing Central and Acton)
Imran Hussain (Labour – Bradford East)
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat – Edinburgh West)
Dan Jarvis (Labour – Barnsley Central)
Darren Jones (Labour – Bristol North West)
Gerald Jones (Labour – Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
Graham P Jones (Labour – Hyndburn)
Helen Jones (Labour – Warrington North)
Kevan Jones (Labour – North Durham)
Sarah Jones (Labour – Croydon Central)
Mike Kane (Labour – Wythenshawe and Sale East)
Barbara Keeley (Labour – Worsley and Eccles South)
Liz Kendall (Labour – Leicester West)
Afzal Khan (Labour – Manchester, Gorton)
Ged Killen (Labour (Co-op) – Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Stephen Kinnock (Labour – Aberavon)
Peter Kyle (Labour – Hove)
Lesley Laird (Labour – Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru – Ceredigion)
Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat – North Norfolk)
David Lammy (Labour – Tottenham)
Ian Lavery (Labour – Wansbeck)
Chris Law (Scottish National Party – Dundee West)
Karen Lee (Labour – Lincoln)
Chris Leslie (Labour (Co-op) – Nottingham East)
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour – South Shields)
Clive Lewis (Labour – Norwich South)
Mr Ivan Lewis (Independent – Bury South)
David Linden (Scottish National Party – Glasgow East)
Stephen Lloyd (Liberal Democrat – Eastbourne)
Tony Lloyd (Labour – Rochdale)
Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour – Salford and Eccles)
Caroline Lucas (Green Party – Brighton, Pavilion)
Ian C. Lucas (Labour – Wrexham)
Holly Lynch (Labour – Halifax)
Angus Brendan MacNeil (Scottish National Party – Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Justin Madders (Labour – Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Khalid Mahmood (Labour – Birmingham, Perry Barr)
Shabana Mahmood (Labour – Birmingham, Ladywood)
Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) – Feltham and Heston)
John Mann (Labour – Bassetlaw)
Gordon Marsden (Labour – Blackpool South)
Sandy Martin (Labour – Ipswich)
Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) – York Central)
Christian Matheson (Labour – City of Chester)
Steve McCabe (Labour – Birmingham, Selly Oak)
Kerry McCarthy (Labour – Bristol East) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Siobhain McDonagh (Labour – Mitcham and Morden)
Andy McDonald (Labour – Middlesbrough)
Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party – Glasgow South)
Stuart C. McDonald (Scottish National Party – Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
John McDonnell (Labour – Hayes and Harlington)
Pat McFadden (Labour – Wolverhampton South East)
Conor McGinn (Labour – St Helens North)
Alison McGovern (Labour – Wirral South)
Liz McInnes (Labour – Heywood and Middleton)
Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) – Oldham West and Royton)
Anna McMorrin (Labour – Cardiff North)
John McNally (Scottish National Party – Falkirk)
Ian Mearns (Labour – Gateshead)
Edward Miliband (Labour – Doncaster North)
Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party – Glasgow North West)
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Labour – Bridgend)
Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat – Oxford West and Abingdon)
Jessica Morden (Labour – Newport East)
Grahame Morris (Labour – Easington)
Ian Murray (Labour – Edinburgh South)
Lisa Nandy (Labour – Wigan)
Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party – Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) – Nottingham North)
Brendan O’Hara (Scottish National Party – Argyll and Bute)
Jared O’Mara (Independent – Sheffield, Hallam)
Fiona Onasanya (Labour – Peterborough)
Melanie Onn (Labour – Great Grimsby)
Chi Onwurah (Labour – Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Kate Osamor (Labour (Co-op) – Edmonton)
Albert Owen (Labour – Ynys Môn)
Stephanie Peacock (Labour – Barnsley East)
Teresa Pearce (Labour – Erith and Thamesmead)
Matthew Pennycook (Labour – Greenwich and Woolwich)
Toby Perkins (Labour – Chesterfield)
Jess Phillips (Labour – Birmingham, Yardley)
Bridget Phillipson (Labour – Houghton and Sunderland South)
Laura Pidcock (Labour – North West Durham)
Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) – Leigh)
Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) – Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Stephen Pound (Labour – Ealing North)
Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) – Manchester Central)
Faisal Rashid (Labour – Warrington South)
Angela Rayner (Labour – Ashton-under-Lyne)
Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) – Croydon North)
Christina Rees (Labour (Co-op) – Neath)
Ellie Reeves (Labour – Lewisham West and Penge)
Rachel Reeves (Labour – Leeds West)
Emma Reynolds (Labour – Wolverhampton North East)
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour (Co-op) – Stalybridge and Hyde)
Marie Rimmer (Labour – St Helens South and Whiston)
Matt Rodda (Labour – Reading East)
Danielle Rowley (Labour – Midlothian)
Chris Ruane (Labour – Vale of Clwyd)
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) – Brighton, Kemptown)
Joan Ryan (Labour – Enfield North)
Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru – Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Naz Shah (Labour – Bradford West)
Virendra Sharma (Labour – Ealing, Southall) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) – Huddersfield)
Tommy Sheppard (Scottish National Party – Edinburgh East)
Paula Sherriff (Labour – Dewsbury)
Gavin Shuker (Labour (Co-op) – Luton South)
Tulip Siddiq (Labour – Hampstead and Kilburn)
Dennis Skinner (Labour – Bolsover)
Andy Slaughter (Labour – Hammersmith)
Ruth Smeeth (Labour – Stoke-on-Trent North)
Angela Smith (Labour – Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Cat Smith (Labour – Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Eleanor Smith (Labour – Wolverhampton South West)
Jeff Smith (Labour – Manchester, Withington)
Laura Smith (Labour – Crewe and Nantwich)
Nick Smith (Labour – Blaenau Gwent)
Owen Smith (Labour – Pontypridd)
Karin Smyth (Labour – Bristol South)
Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) – Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) – Leeds North West)
John Spellar (Labour – Warley)
Keir Starmer (Labour – Holborn and St Pancras)
Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party – Glasgow South West)
Jo Stevens (Labour – Cardiff Central)
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat – Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Wes Streeting (Labour – Ilford North)
Paul Sweeney (Labour (Co-op) – Glasgow North East) – PREVIOUSLY ABSTAINED
Mark Tami (Labour – Alyn and Deeside)
Alison Thewliss (Scottish National Party – Glasgow Central)
Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) – Harrow West)
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour – Torfaen)
Emily Thornberry (Labour – Islington South and Finsbury)
Stephen Timms (Labour – East Ham)
Jon Trickett (Labour – Hemsworth)
Anna Turley (Labour (Co-op) – Redcar)
Derek Twigg (Labour – Halton)
Stephen Twigg (Labour (Co-op) – Liverpool, West Derby)
Liz Twist (Labour – Blaydon)
Chuka Umunna (Labour – Streatham)
Keith Vaz (Labour – Leicester East)
Valerie Vaz (Labour – Walsall South)
Thelma Walker (Labour – Colne Valley)
Tom Watson (Labour – West Bromwich East)
Catherine West (Labour – Hornsey and Wood Green)
Matt Western (Labour – Warwick and Leamington)
Alan Whitehead (Labour – Southampton, Test)
Martin Whitfield (Labour – East Lothian)
Philippa Whitford (Scottish National Party – Central Ayrshire)
Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru – Arfon)
Chris Williamson (Labour – Derby North)
Phil Wilson (Labour – Sedgefield)
Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party – Perth and North Perthshire)
Mohammad Yasin (Labour – Bedford)
Daniel Zeichner (Labour – Cambridge)
ABSTAINED IN TODAY’S VOTE (44)
Ian Austin (Labour, Dudley North) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Adrian Bailey (Labour, West Bromwich West) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Luciana Berger (Labour, Liverpool Wavertree) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour – City of Durham)
Ann Coffey (Labour – Stockport)
Therese Coffey (Conservative – Suffolk Coastal)
Neil Coyle (Labour – Bermondsey and Old Southwark) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Sir David Crausby (Labour – Bolton North East)
Nigel Dodds (Democratic Unionist Party – Belfast North) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour – Poplar and Limehouse) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Paul Flynn (Labour – Newport West)
Dominic Grieve (Conservative – Beaconsfield) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
John Grogan (Labour – Keighley) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
David Hanson (Labour – Delyn)
Mark Hendrick (Labour – Preston)
Kate Hoey (Labour – Vauxhall )
Adam Holloway (Conservative – Gravesham)
Boris Johnson (Conservative – Uxbridge and South Ruislip) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Diana Johnson (Labour – Kingston upon Hull North) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Susan Elan Jones (Labour – Clwyd South) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Jonathan Lord (Conservative – Woking)
Catherine McKinnell (Labour – Newcastle upon Tyne North) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Johnny Mercer (Conservative – Plymouth Moor View) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Stephen Morgan (Labour – Portsmouth South) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Matthew Offord (Conservative – Hendon) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Neil Parish (Conservative – Tiverton and Honiton) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Christopher Pincher (Conservative – Tamworth) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Daniel Poulter (Conservative – Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Rebecca Pow (Conservative – Taunton Deane)
Yasmin Qureshi (Labour – Bolton South East)
Geoffrey Robinson (Labour – Coventry North West) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Andrew Selous (Conservative – South West Bedfordshire) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Mark Spencer (Conservative, Sherwood) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Gary Streeter (Conservative – South West Devon)
Graham Stringer (Labour – Blackley and Broughton)
Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat – East Dunbartonshire)
Derek Thomas (Conservative – St Ives) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Karl Turner (Labour – Kingston upon Hull East) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Martin Vickers (Conservative – Cleethorpes) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Giles Watling (Conservative – Clacton) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
Bill Wiggin (Conservative – North Herefordshire)
Paul Williams (Labour – Stockton South) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
John Woodcock (Labour – Barrow and Furness) – PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED LEVESON 2
Sarah Wollaston (Conservative – Totnes) – PREVIOUSLY OPPOSED LEVESON 2
(Note: those abstaining includes MPs unable to vote because they are absent or ill. Does not include the Speaker and three Deputy Speakers, who don’t vote, or seven Sinn Fein MPs, who refuse to take their seats.)
Viscount Colville said: “Even the prospect of the bar being raised will have a chilling effect on investigative journalism.”
And Lord Hunt added: “I suspect what lies behind this amendment is yet another attempt to exercise some statutory controls or levers over our free media.”
The House of Lords will technically be able to push the Leveson 2 amendment again when the bill returns from the Commons – but it is highly unlikely they will seek to defy MPs for a second time.
The unelected peers who voted to muzzle the press
MANY of the Lords that lined up to shackle Britain’s free press last night have had been exposed for bad behaviour by newspapers.
LORD PRESCOTT:
Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was furious when he was snapped playing croquet at grace-and-favour pad Chequers while in charge of the country.
Despite being a well-paid columnist until last year, he hates newspapers for revealing he had an affair using his government-owned flat.
LORD KERSLAKE:
The former head of the civil service now advises Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, but press revealed he was nicknamed “Bungalow Bob” by staff as there was “not much upstairs.”
Never far from the headlines after his bungling in Whitehall and later as an NHS Trust chief.
PETER HAIN:
The Labour arch-remoaner was forced to resign as Transport Secretary in 2008 in a scandal about undeclared donations from rich donors.
He was left red faced after he put an expensive new roof for his “log store” on his expenses.
LORD MENDELSOHN:
The Labour big-hitter was forced to quit the frontbench in January after the press revealed he attended the controversial President’s Club Ball.
Female waitresses were groped and harrassed at the all-male charity dinner that rocked the City.
LORD MACLEAN:
The former Tory whip led the charge to have MPs exempt from Freedom of Information laws when he was in the Commons.
And he was a key player in trying to block the publication of MPs expenses ahead of the devastating 2009 scandal.
BARONESS CHAKRABARTI:
Corbynista peer Shami was accused of whitewashing antisemitism in the Labour Party in a duff report published shortly before she was ennobled.
Exposed as a hypocrite for sending her son to £18,000-per-year private school after attacking grammar schools for being unfair.
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