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‘Livid’ Tory backbencher says he has ‘had enough of talentless people’ OLD

A Conservative backbencher has said he has “had enough of talentless people“ after MPs were allegedly “manhandled” and “bullied” in the House of Commons during a vote on fracking.

MP Sir Charles Walker was visibly angry as he said MPs were all at the despatch box when they were told – contrary to earlier instructions – that the division would no longer be treated as a vote of confidence.

The U-turn caused chaos in the division lobbies and Labour’s Chris Bryant claimed he saw MPs being “physically manhandled” and “bullied” into the voting lobby.

Suella Braverman quits as home secretary with scathing broadside over Liz Truss’s ‘broken pledges’ OLD

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