Richard Foord votes “aye”
“No vote recorded” is the official record for Simon Jupp last night.
Owl assumes that he was in Whitehall though he could have been taking an extended weekend “reaching out” to Richard Foord’s constituents in places like Honiton and Axminster.
[Update 10:20 am Jupp was in the House of Commons on Monday voting down the Lord’s amendments to the Rwanda Bill and spoke on Tuesday in the debate on energy security.]
Sitting on the fence would seem to fit with the conflict between his declared “libertarian” instincts (See this post) and his wanting to be seen as “loyal”, given his PPS status.
In his short political career Simon has worked closely with right-wingers.
He was a SPAD to Dominic Raab before his selection as the Tory candidate to succeed Hugo Swire. (No vote recorded for Raab).
In October 2022 Simon Jupp “united” behind Liz Truss (voted “No” ). As a result he was also “newly promoted” as a PPS to Simon Clarke (voted “No” ) when he became Secretary of State for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities.
He was sacked alongside Clarke but promoted again within a month as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the new Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper (voted “for”).
Here is a list of those Tory MPs who voted “No” last night.
Conservative (59):
- Kemi Badenoch (minister)
- Steve Baker (minister)
- Alex Burghart (minister)
- Andrew Griffith (minister)
- Julia Lopez (minister)
- Lee Rowley (minister)
- Gareth Johnson
- Craig Whittaker
- Adam Afriyie
- Sarah Atherton
- Richard Bacon
- Shaun Bailey
- Simon Bayner
- Jake Berry
- Graham Brady
- Suella Braverman
- Paul Bristow
- Rehman Chishti
- Christopher Chope
- Simon Clarke
- Brendan Clarke-Smith
- Dehenna Davison
- Sarah Dines
- Jonathan Djanogly
- Jackie Doyle-Price
- James Duddridge
- Mark Eastwood
- George Eustice
- Nick Fletcher
- Mark Francois
- Richard Fuller
- Chris Green
- Jonathan Gullis
- Darren Henry
- Adam Holloway
- Paul Holmes
- Eddie Hughes
- Tom Hunt
- Robert Jenrick
- Greg Knight
- Edward Leigh
- Andrew Lewer
- Marco Longhi
- Rachel Maclean
- Anthony Mangnall
- Karl McCartney
- Anne Marie Morris
- Tom Randall
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Laurence Robertson
- Gary Sambrook
- Alec Shelbrooke
- Greg Smith
- Alexander Stafford
- Jane Stevenson
- John Stevenson
- Desmond Swayne
- Liz Truss
- Giles Watling
[More than 100 abstained]
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