Here is how Worcestershire MPs voted yesterday on the Fracking ban bill.
MPs rejected the Labour motion that would ensure parliamentary time for a bill to ban fracking.
323 out of the total 357 Conservative MPs voted against Labour's motion.
Robin Walker, MP for Worcester, Nigel Huddleston, MP for Mid-Worcestershire, and Harriet Baldwin, MP for West-Worcestershire, voted against the bill.
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In favour of the bill:
- Labour -167
- Scottish National Party - 33
- Liberal Democrat - 14
- Independent - 7
- Plaid Cymru - 3
- Social Democratic and Labour Party - 2
- Green Party - 1
- Alliance - 1
- Alba Party - 1
Cabinet ministers Therese Coffey and Jacob Rees-Mogg are among a group of senior Tories accused of bullying Conservative MPs into voting against a Labour motion on fracking.
Amid extraordinary scenes at Westminster, one Tory MP was “physically manhandled” into the “no” lobby to ensure he opposed the motion, according to opposition MPs.
The chaos erupted shortly before the vote at 7pm, after climate minister Graham Stuart announced in the Commons chamber that, contrary to what MPs had been told earlier, it was not being treated as a vote of confidence in the Government of Liz Truss.
Until that point, Tory MPs had been on notice that they would have the whip withdrawn and would be expelled from the parliamentary party if they failed to support the Government.
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Ian Murray MP, shadow secretary of state for Scotland and Labour MP for Edinburgh South, said that he has "never seen scenes" like what happened yesterday.
He said: "I’ve never seen scenes like it at the entrance to a voting lobby. Tories in open warfare.
"Jostling and Rees Mogg shouting at his colleagues. Whips screaming at Tories. They are done and should call a general election.
"Two Tory whips dragging people in. Shocking."
Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister yesterday after being in power for just over six weeks.
Ms Truss is protected from a confidence vote during the first 12 months of her leadership, but she resigned after a visit from Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee.
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