3 Sep 2019

Constituents divided over possible deselection of rebel Tory MP Caroline Nokes

Home Affairs Correspondent

We won’t know for sure exactly who’s voted against the government until later this evening, but sitting among the rebels is the former immigration minister Caroline Nokes.

We won’t know for sure exactly who’s voted against the government until later this evening, but sitting among the rebels is the former immigration minister Caroline Nokes.

She said yesterday that preventing a No Deal that may threaten the livelihoods of her constituents means a lot more to her than keeping the Conservative whip.

But what do her constituents make of that with threats of deselection from on high hanging in the air?