>> Reports emerging that BoJo has removed whip from the 21 rebel MPs.
He has. Those 'unwhipped' and their constituencies are:
Guto Bebb, Aberconwy
Richard Benyon, Newbury
Steve Brine, Winchester
Alistair Burt, North East Bedfordshire
Greg Clark, Tunbridge Wells
Kenneth Clarke, Rushcliffe
David Gauke, South West Hertfordshire
Justine Greening, Putney
Dominic Grieve, Beaconsfield
Sam Gyimah, East Surrey
Philip Hammond, Runnymede and Weybridge
Stephen Hammond, Wimbledon
Richard Harrington, Watford
Margot James, Stourbridge
Sir Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
Anne Milton, Guildford
Caroline Nokes, Romsey and Southampton North
Antoinette Sandbach, Eddisbury
Sir Nicholas Soames, Mid Sussex
Rory Stewart, Penrith and The Border
Edward Vaizey, Wantage
All I think are the sort of politicians who come over in broadcasts as sound sensible people. Burt was on PM last night making some excellent points and doing a compare/contrast with number of members of current cabinet who'd defied the whip before.
Soames and Ken Clarke are both veterans. Soames has said he won't stand again and Clarke had originally decided to call it a day at end of 2015 Parliament bit stood in 2017 as no alternative had been selected. Justine Greening had announced yesterday that she was leaving a party in which she was no longer at home.
Rory Stewart, a leadership candidate two months ago, was on Today this morning but I didn't catch full item.
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