Boris Johnson addresses the Commons as MPs debate Brexit
EPA
Tim Baker5 September 2019
Boris Johnson's calls to trigger a general election were rejected last night after he failed to secure the required support from MPs.
Under the Fixed Term Parliament Act, Mr Johnson's motion needed the support of two thirds of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons.
But he only secured 298 votes in favour of the move - 136 short of the number needed. A total of 56 voted against the motion, while the rest abstained.
Among those voting against the Government last night were Tories who recently had the whip removed, including father of the house Ken Clarke.
Mr Johnson believes his only option now is to have the national poll, meaning he could try to call a fresh vote for an election, after the bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit is approved.
Here is how MPs voted:
| Ayes | |
| Conservatives | |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty |
| Bim Afolami | Hitchin and Harpenden |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney |
| Lucy Allan | Telford |
| David Amess | Southend West |
| Edward Argar | Charnwood |
| Victoria Atkins | Louth and Horncastle |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk |
| Kemi Badenoch | Saffron Walden |
| Steve Baker | Wycombe |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire |
| Stephen Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West |
| Andrew Bowie | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
| Ben Bradley | Mansfield |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West |
| Suella Braverman | Fareham |
| Jack Brereton | Stoke-on-Trent South |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon |
| Alex Burghart | Brentwood and Ongar |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan |
| James Cartlidge | South Suffolk |
| William Cash | Stone |
| Maria Caulfield | Lewes |
| Alex Chalk | Cheltenham |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch |
| Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds |
| Colin Clark | Gordon |
| Simon Clarke | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland |
| James Cleverly | Braintree |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe |
| Alberto Costa | South Leicestershire |
| Robert Courts | Witney |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford |
| David T. C. Davies | Monmouth |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh |
| Philip Davies | Shipley |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon |
| Leo Docherty | Aldershot |
| Michelle Donelan | Chippenham |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire |
| Steve Double | St Austell and Newquay |
| Oliver Dowden | Hertsmere |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East |
| David Duguid | Banff and Buchan |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Vicky Ford | Chelmsford |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford |
| Lucy Frazer | South East Cambridgeshire |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green |
| Marcus Fysh | Yeovil |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest |
| Nusrat Ghani | Wealden |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton |
| Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham |
| John Glen | Salisbury |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath |
| Luke Graham | Ochil and South Perthshire |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester |
| Bill Grant | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell |
| Chris Green | Bolton West |
| Damian Green | Ashford |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton |
| Kirstene Hair | Angus |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow |
| Luke Hall | Thornbury and Yate |
| Matt Hancock | West Suffolk |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point |
| Trudy Harrison | Copeland |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire |
| James Heappey | Wells |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry |
| Peter Heaton-Jones | North Devon |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire |
| Simon Hoare | North Dorset |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley |
| Kevin Hollinrake | Thirsk and Malton |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham |
| John Howell | Henley |
| Nigel Huddleston | Mid Worcestershire |
| Eddie Hughes | Walsall North |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner |
| Alister Jack | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex |
| Andrea Jenkyns | Morley and Outwood |
| Robert Jenrick | Newark |
| Boris Johnson | Uxbridge and South Ruislip |
| Caroline Johnson | Sleaford and North Hykeham |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford |
| Joseph Johnson | Orpington |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough |
| David Jones | Clwyd West |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham |
| Gillian Keegan | Chichester |
| Seema Kennedy | South Ribble |
| Stephen Kerr | Stirling |
| Julian Knight | Solihull |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne |
| John Lamont | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough |
| Andrew Lewer | Northampton South |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury |
| Julia Lopez | Hornchurch and Upminster |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham |
| Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet |
| Rachel Maclean | Redditch |
| Anne Main | St Albans |
| Alan Mak | Havant |
| Kit Malthouse | North West Hampshire |
| Scott Mann | North Cornwall |
| Paul Masterton | East Renfrewshire |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage |
| Esther McVey | Tatton |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde |
| Johnny Mercer | Plymouth, Moor View |
| Huw Merriman | Bexhill and Battle |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke |
| Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield |
| Damien Moore | Southport |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis |
| Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire |
| Robert Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire |
| Neil O'Brien | Harborough |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton |
| Priti Patel | Witham |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead |
| John Penrose | Weston-super-Mare |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole |
| Claire Perry | Devizes |
| Chris Philp | Croydon South |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth |
| Dan Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich |
| Rebecca Pow | Taunton Deane |
| Victoria Prentis | Banbury |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin |
| Tom Pursglove | Corby |
| Jeremy Quin | Horsham |
| Will Quince | Colchester |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton |
| John Redwood | Wokingham |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury |
| Mary Robinson | Cheadle |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford |
| Douglas Ross | Moray |
| Lee Rowley | North East Derbyshire |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield |
| Paul Scully | Sutton and Cheam |
| Bob Seely | Isle of Wight |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North |
| Henry Smith | Crawley |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon |
| Royston Smith | Southampton, Itchen |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer |
| Rishi Sunak | Richmond (Yorks) |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon |
| Robert Syms | Poole |
| Derek Thomas | St Ives |
| Ross Thomson | Aberdeen South |
| Maggie Throup | Erewash |
| Kelly Tolhurst | Rochester and Strood |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon |
| Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole |
| Craig Tracey | North Warwickshire |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth |
| Anne-Marie Trevelyan | Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk |
| Tom Tugendhat | Tonbridge and Malling |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne |
| Robin Walker | Worcester |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North |
| David Warburton | Somerton and Frome |
| Matt Warman | Boston and Skegness |
| Giles Watling | Clacton |
| Helen Whately | Faversham and Mid Kent |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire |
| Mike Wood | Dudley South |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon |
| Labour | |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall |
| DUP | |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley |
| Paul Girvan | South Antrim |
| Emma Little Pengelly | Belfast South |
| Ian Paisley | North Antrim |
| Gavin Robinson | Belfast East |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim |
| Independents | |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover |
Tellers for the ayes were Conservative MPs Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) and Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South)
| Noes | |
| Labour | |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North |
| Neil Coyle | Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
| Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood |
| Graham P Jones | Hyndburn |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North |
| Peter Kyle | Hove |
| Holly Lynch | Halifax |
| Sandy Martin | Ipswich |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden |
| Liz McInnes | Heywood and Middleton |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Mon |
| Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley |
| Matt Rodda | Reading East |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield |
| Owen Smith | Pontypridd |
| Jo Stevens | Cardiff Central |
| Martin Whitfield | East Lothian |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield |
| Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge |
| Liberal Democrats | |
| Vince Cable | Twickenham |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton |
| Jane Dodds | Brecon and Radnorshire |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale |
| Wera Hobhouse | Bath |
| Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell |
| Layla Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon |
| Jamie Stone | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham |
| Plaid Cymru | |
| Ben Lake | Ceredigion |
| Liz Saville Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon |
| Ind Group for Change | |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe |
| Independents | |
| Heidi Allen | South Cambridgeshire |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe |
| Lady Hermon | North Down |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne |
| Antoinette Sandbach | Eddisbury |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge |
Tellers for the noes were Lib Dem Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington) and Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr)