Dozens of Conservative MPs are facing as-yet undetermined disciplinary action after Downing Street announced that a chaotic vote on fracking was being treated as a confidence issue.
It was widely reported that Liz Truss’s chief whip, Wendy Morton, and the deputy chief whip, Craig Whittaker, had stepped down after disorderly scenes, with MPs alleging ministers physically pulled some wavering Tories into the voting lobbies.
