A veteran Tory MP has described chaotic scenes in the House of Commons tonight as 'an absolute disgrace'.
Amid claims of bullying by Tory whips, MPs rejected Labour’s motion to allocate Commons time to consider banning fracking, in a vote initially designated as a 'confidence motion' in Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Government. Labour’s motion was defeated by 230 votes to 326, a majority of 96.
But moments later a Labour former minister Chris Bryant asked the Commons Deputy Speaker to investigate 'the scenes outside the entrance to the No lobby' after he saw 'members being physically manhandled into another lobby and being bullied'.
