After last week’s purge of Tory Rebel the MPs Stephen Hammond and Antoinette Sandbach were amongst a group of MPs approached by the Tory’s 1922 Committee’s executive to appeal their expulsion from the party. One Tory rebel was reportedly given a piece of paper explaining the procedure by the Vice Chair of the 1922 Committee, Cheryl Gillan.
The complex procedure involves MPs writing to the Chief Whip, Mark Spencer, asking for their expulsion to be reversed. Ms Sandbach said: “I am reflecting on whether to appeal withdrawal of the whip and will make my decision over the weekend. I have been sent details by [the] 1922 Committee.”
According to reports a number of of Tory rebels are now allegedly following the procedure. Former Chancellor Philip Hammond also revealed that he was receiving legal advice and intends to take action against the party.
He had also already written to the Chief Whip asking for him to outline the procedure in detail.
“In the meantime, I have written to the Chief Whip asking him to provide a formal statement of the reasons for the removal of the whip, the process by which that decision was made and the procedure by which it may be challenged.”
Meanwhile Boris Johnson is meeting Leo Varadkar in Dublin after The taoiseach invited Mr Johnson to Dublin two months ago, shortly after he was installed in Downing Street, to discuss Brexit.
The two leaders have very different views on how the deadlock should be resolved. The Irish government is insistent that the backstop – the mechanism to avoid an Irish hard border – is needed in any withdrawal agreement, because of decisions made by the UK.
Boris has refuted these claims and has said he will not sign up to a deal unless the backstop is removed, because it is “anti-democratic”.
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