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However, the scale of backing for it, as anti-war demonstrators protested outside Parliament, was far more than Government ministers had feared.
Senior parliamentarians, including Tory grandees John Gummer, Kenneth Clarke and Douglas Hogg and Labour former Cabinet ministers Frank Dobson and Chris Smith, were among those who believed weapons inspectors should be given more time to disarm Saddam.
After the amendment was defeated, the Government s motion was approved by 434 votes to 124, majority 310, with 59 Labour MPs again voting against a three-line whip.
Leading the rebellion, Mr Smith warned that if MPs backed the Government it would signal that they endorsed a timetable that leads “inexorably to war within the next three to four weeks.”
ONE of Darlington’s most colourful and controversial former councillors has died at the age of 79. Peter Jones represented the Pierremont ward for more than a decade in the 1980s and 1990s, and was chairman of the local Conservative association. At a time when the council was hung and meetings drifted on long into the night, he became renowned for the pugnacious way in which he took the fight to Labour. According to the Gadfly column in The Northern Echo written in 1993 after there had been a row over NHS cuts in which he had threatened to place a candle in the nose of the Labour MP Alan Milburn, Mr Jones had “a profile as high as the World Trade Centre”.