Tory whips accused of physically pushing their MPs through the lobby to allow fracking
For American DUers: voting in the Commons is still literally in 'lobbies' - the MPs walk past the tellers in 'Aye' and 'No' lobbies to be counted. The Tory government has reached the stage where it's getting physical with its own MPs (who either think new fracking is a bad environmental move, or know their constituents do):
Ive never seen scenes like it at the entrance to a voting lobby. Tories on open warfare. Jostling and Rees Mogg shouting at his colleagues. Whips screaming at Tories.
They are done and should call a general election.
Two Tory whips dragging people in. Shocking.
Commons veteran Chris Bryant says he saw members being "physically manhandled" and bullied into a voting lobby and calls for an investigation into what happened. Says this goes against behaviour code of MPs
Chris Bryant tells Sky News it was Alex Stafford, Tory MP for Rother Valley, who was physically manhandled into the govt lobby by a group who included Deputy PM Therese Coffey and Jacob Rees-Mogg
So that's the deputy PM (and Health Secretary) and Secretary of State for Business behaving like schoolyard bullies. I have never heard of a British government so out of control. It has got to be the end for them.