conservative mps to back him. if he d lost tonight it would have significantly dented his authority. in total, 313 mps voted in favour of the bill and 269 mps voted against it, meaning the government had a majority of 44 votes. no conservatives mps voted against the bill, but 37 did not vote. chris mason is in westminster. a day ofjeopardy and a day of jitters and the government deploying every tool of persuasion and mathematics, so the phone calls and the snatched conversations in the corridors, the more formal meetings, and on the mathematical side making sure everyone who could vote for the government was here in order to vote for the government. to give you an example, the climate minister who was at the climate talks in the middle east, flew all the way back so that he could vote. that is how nervous the government was, despite the result when we finally got it. quite an evening then after quite a day. quite an evening then after quite a da . . , . , ., day. excuse me,
i m able to bring you. that is a process that takes some time. so that s where we are at the moment. i think it s fair to say, as things stand, the story has eased off a bit. it s not as dominant and sort of headline making as it was at the tail end of last week. that s not to say it might not flare up again. prime minister has said today, he s been in edinburgh launching the conservative scottish manifesto with douglas ross, the outgoing leader of the scottish conservatives, that he s not aware of any of the conservative candidates who are being looked into. it s intriguing that because i m not sure it d be absolutely certain he would necessarily know, potentially. and of course, there s lots of people in and around politics who may or may not be candidates. so, yeah, that s kind of where we are now. it hasn t gone away. it may not go away, but as things stand it has eased in the nosiness of about i think would be a reasonable summary as we record at what 5.10pm on monday. a
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