After the Commons vote on the Tories' assault on Labour's “household farm tax”, Victoria Atkins lambasted Labor MPs for rejecting her social gathering's calls to scrap it.
“Labour MPs had the chance to do the correct factor and assist Britain’s farmers,” she stated after the opposition movement was defeated by 339 votes to 181 – a majority of 158.
Nonetheless, the voting listing confirmed that 21 Conservatives had not voted for their very own movement. And to be truthful, there was additionally no vote for 70 Labor MPs, together with Sir Keir Starmer. In complete, greater than 100 MPs didn’t vote.
Kemi Badenoch was among the many 21 lacking Tories. However shortly after the vote it was revealed that she flew to Washington DC for talks with Republicans, though there was no discuss of a gathering with Donald Trump.
One other massive title not current was Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond and Northallerton, considered one of England's most rural constituencies, overlaying a lot of the northern Yorkshire Dales resembling Wensleydale and Swaledale.
Different members included new Conservative co-leader Nigel Huddlestone, shadow cupboard member Andrew Griffith and former cupboard ministers Jeremy Hunt, David Davis and Dame Karen Bradley, all representing rural seats.
However Labour's listing of absentees was considerably longer and included the vast majority of Cupboard, 14 ministers, though most of them represented city fairly than rural constituencies.
Other than Sir Keir, Heidi Alexander, Yvette Cooper, Anneliese Dodds, John Healey, Peter Kyle, David Lammy, Pat McFadden, Ed Miliband, Ian Murray, Lisa Nandy, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves and Jonathan Reynolds didn’t vote.
Liberal Democrat chief Sir Ed Davey additionally didn’t vote, though his Kingston and Surbiton seat is extra suburban than rural.
Nonetheless, a complete of 116 MPs, excluding the deputy audio system and the completely absent Sinn Féin MPs, didn’t vote.
What is going to the farming neighborhood make of this?