The number of MPs saying they no longer have confidence in Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has jumped dramatically this morning.
Mr Speaker is fighting for his career today after unprecedented scenes in parliament yesterday, which saw yelling, conflict, walk-outs and demands of resignation.
Sir Lindsay sparked fury yesterday lunchtime, when he announced he would be breaking centuries of Commons procedures to allow a vote on a Labour amendment to the SNP’s divisive Gaza ceasefire motion.
Sir Lindsay was warned by the chamber’s most senior constitutional boffin, the Clerk, that this was against the rules and he would not have his support in making the unprecedented move.
Both the Tories and SNP are furious with the Speaker: the Tories for his breaking of the rules; the SNP for allowing Labour to hijack their big day in Parliament and undermine the point of their motion.
Sir Keir is also facing accusations that he and other Labour MPs bullied Sir Lindsay, a Labour speaker, into making the enormous concession.
Despite returning to the Chamber yesterday evening to make a heartfelt apology, as of this morning 50 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion voicing no confidence in the Speaker.
This is up from the 33 who had signed it by close of play yesterday.
The EDM, sparked by senior Tory Will Wragg, echoes the coup against 2009 Speaker Michael Martin.
Then, 22 MPs backed an EDM voicing no confidence in the Speaker, and he quit just two days later.
Has your MP backed the calls for Sir Lindsay to go? Read the list in full below:
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Anthony Mangnall, Totnes
- Bob Blackman, Harrow East
- Brend Clarke-Smith, Bassetlaw
- Chris Green, Bolton West
- Danny Kruger, Devizes
- Derek Thomas, St Ives
- Eddie Hughes, Walsall North
- Gary Sambrook, Birmingham (Northfield)
- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, The Cotswolds
- Graham Brady, Altringham and Sale West
- Jack Brereton, Stoke-on-Trent South
- James Duddridge, Rochford and Southend East
- James Grundy, Leigh
- Jill Mortimer, Hartlepool
- Jo Gideon, Stoke-on-Trent Central
- John Stevenson, Carlisle
- Jonathan Gullis, Stoke-on-Trent North
- Jonathan Lord, Woking
- Karl McCartney, Lincoln
- Keiran Mullan, Crewe and Nantwich
- Lee Anderson, Ashfield
- Lia Nici, Great Grimsby
- Marco Longhi, Dudley North
- Matt Warman, Boston and Skegness
- Miriam Cates, Penistone and Stocksbridge
- Robert Goodwill, Scarborough and Whitby
- Shaun Bailey, West Bromwich West
- Simon Baynes, Clwyd South
- Steve Double, St Austell and Newquay
- Tom Hunt, Ipswich
- Tom Randall, Gedling
- Will Wragg, Hazel Grove
