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Blow for Boris Johnson as over 100 Tory MPs vote against covid rules in Commons rebellion

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Boris Johnson has suffered a massive body blow with over 100 Conservative MPs voting against his plans for covid passports at large events in England.The already battered Prime Minister’s authority was smashed by one of the biggest Conservative rebellions of recent times which left him relying on Keir Starmer’s Labour party to get the measures through.Tory Whips had hoped to whittle down the number of disgruntled Tory MPs after the Prime Minister made a personal appeal to backbenchers on Tuesday afternoon.

But in the most important of a series of Commons votes Johnson squandered the support of more than his 80-seat majority. Labour whips suggested that there had been between 101 to 103 Tory rebels, almost a third of the Conservative MPs,

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