Analysis: Ministers thought they had pulled a rabbit out of the hat but the rebellion would not be contained
Lurking at the entrance to the House of Commons voting lobbies on Wednesday night, the government’s new chief whip stood clutching his phone, devising and rewriting a single sentence he hoped might save the prime minister the embarrassment of beingChris Heaton-Harris quietly grappled with the text of an amendment that aimed to derail a Labour motion to trigger an inquiry by theWith a majority of 80, persuading Tory MPs to simply vote the motion down should not have been a hard task.
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