57% of MPs who rebelled against Lords reform bill also rebelled against the EU referendum motion.
52% of MPs who rebelled against Lords reform bill were elected in 2010 (47 MPs).
13% of MPs who rebelled against Lords reform bill were elected in 2005 (12 MPs).
34% of Conservative MPs who rebelled were listed on publicwhip.org as “hardly ever” rebelling against their party, 26% were listed as “occasionally rebelling”, and 8% were listed as “never” rebelling against the party.
Only seven MPs from the 1922 committee’s exec voted against Lords reform bill. Four of them also voted against the EU referendum motion (chairman Graham Brady, secretary Nick de Bois and executive members Bernard Jenkin and Steven Baker).
The average age of the Conservative MP who rebelled against Lords reform is 51. The youngest being Nicola Blackwood (33) and the oldest is Sir Peter Tapsell (82).
The average ago of the Labour MP who rebelled against Lords reform is 66 with the youngest MP being Simon Hepburn (52) and the eldest being Gerald Kaufman (82)
Of the 26 Labour MPs who rebelled against Lords reform, six of them defied the party whip on the EU referendum motion.
Philip Hollobone was listed on ConservativeHome as the “most rebellious” Conservative MP with 48 rebellions in this government.
David Nuttall as ranked as the most rebellious Conservative MP in the new intake.
Out of the seven Conservative MPs who were listed as “never” rebelling against their party, four of them were elected in 2010 – including Jesse Norman.
73% of MPs who were listed as “hardly ever” rebelling were new MPs.
17% of those also voted against the EU referendum motion.
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