Tobias Ellwood has Tory whip restored after being suspended in July

Tobias Ellwood said he was glad to be ‘off the naughty step’ and back in the parliamentary party. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

A senior Conservative MP has had the whip restored after being suspended from the party for missing a confidence vote in the summer.

Tobias Ellwood, chair of the Commons defence select committee, had the whip withdrawn after failing to vote for Boris Johnson’s government in a confidence vote in July.