The seven MPs who are now facing a really rough ride
SEVEN of the 89 MPs who voted against Brexit in the House of Commons on Wednesday must now face the fury of their constituents who voted to Leave the EU.
The Government won a huge mandate with a majority of 372 as 461 MPs backed enacting “the wishes of the British people”.
However, of the 89 who opposed implementing the decision made in the biggest democratic exercise in British history, seven came from Leave supporting constituencies.
Ukip Brexit spokesman Gerard Batten said: “These MPs have just written their own political epitaph.
“They have just invited Ukip candidates to remove them at the earliest opportunity.”
Among them was Labour veteran Graham Allen, whose Nottingham North constituency voted 63.8 per cent to Leave.
Fellow Labour MP Angela Smith’s Penistone and Stocksbridge seat voted 61.3 per cent to Leave while Paul Farrelly’s Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency voted 61.7 per cent to Leave.
Other Labour MPs who ignored voters were Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield, which saw a 51.1 per cent Leave vote, and Chris Evans, Islwyn, which returned a 58.9 per cent vote for Leave.
Welsh Nationalist Jonathan Edwards also ignored a 53.8 per cent Leave vote in his Carmarthen East and Dinefwr constituency.
And SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford snubbed the beleaguered fishing industry in her Banff and Buchan constituency where 54 per cent of voters backed Leave.
Scottish Tory MSP Ross Thomson, one of the few Scottish parliamentarians to campaign for Brexit, has accused her of failing to represent the views of her constituents.
Fishermen from Peterhead in Ms Whiteford’s seat won praise in the campaign with a flotilla down the Thames with Nigel Farage to highlight why Britain needs to be free of a Brussels which has almost destroyed their industry.
And last night the hardline EU Scottish nationalist faced a challenge in her own constituency.
Scottish Tory North East of Scotland MSP Ross Thomson, who backed Leave, said: “Eilidh Whiteford has to explain to those constituents why she is actively trying to block the Brexit process.
“Whether she voted for Remain or Leave it matters not. Her constituency wanted out of the EU and she needs to recognise that.”
MPs who voted against were: CONSERVATIVE: Ken Clarke, Rushcliffe LABOUR: Barry Sheerman, Huddersfield; Angela Smith, Penistone and Stocksbridge; Graham Allen, Nottingham North; Chris Evans, Islwyn; Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Helen Hayes, Dulwich and West Norwood; Meg Hillier, Hackney South and Shoreditch; Peter Kyle, Hove; David Lammy, Tottenham; Chris Leslie, Nottingham East; Ian Murray, Edinburgh South; Tulip Siddiq, Hampstead and Kilburn; Catherine West, Hornsey and Wood Green; Daniel Zeichner, Cambridge; Rushanara
Ali, Bethnal Green and Bow; Ben Bradshaw, Exeter; Ann Coffey, Stockport; Neil Coyle, Bermondsey; Stella Creasy, Walthamstow; Geraint Davies, Swansea West; Louise Ellman, Riverside; Jim Dowd, Lewisham West; Mike Gapes, Ilford South
LIB DEMS: Nick Clegg, Sheffield Hallam; Sarah Olney, Richmond Park; Mark Williams, Ceredigion; Alistair Carmichael, Orkney and Shetland; Tim Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale
SOCIAL DEM. AND LAB. PARTY: Alasdair McDonnell, Belfast South; Mark Durkan, Foyle; Margaret Ritchie, South Down
PLAID CYMRU: Liz Saville Roberts, Dwyfor Meirionnydd; Hywel Williams, Arfon; Jonathan Edwards, Carmarthen East
GREEN: Caroline Lucas, Brighton, Pavilion SNP: Michelle Thomson, Edinburgh West; Natalie McGarry, Glasgow East; Eilidh Whiteford, Banff & Buchan; Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Ochil and South Perthshire; Hannah Bardel, Livingston; Mhairi Black, Paisley & Renfrewshire South; Ian Blackford, Ross, Skye & Lochaber; Kirsty Blackman, Aberdeen North; Philip Boswell, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill; Deidre Brock, Edinburgh North and Leith; Alan Brown, Kilmarnock and Loudoun; Lisa Cameron, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow; Douglas Chapman, Dunfermline and West Fife; Joanna Cherry, Edinburgh South West; Ronnie Cowan, Inverclyde; Angela Crawley, Lanark and Hamilton East; Martyn Day, Linlithgow and East Falkirk; Martin Docherty, West Dunbartonshire; Stuart Donaldson, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine; Marion Fellows, Motherwell & Wishaw; Margaret Ferrier, Rutherglen and Hamilton West; Stephen Gethins, North East Fife; Calum Kerr, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk; Chris Law, Dundee West; John McNally, Falkirk; Angus MacNeil, Na h-Eileanan an Iar; Stuart McDonald, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East; Callum McCaig, Aberdeen South; Anne McLaughlin, Glasgow North East; Carol Monaghan, Glasgow North West; Paul Monaghan, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Roger Mullin, Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath; Gavin Newlands, Paisley & Renfrewshire North; John Nicolson, East Dunbartonshire; Brendan O’Hara, Argyll and Bute; Kirsten Oswald, East Renfrewshire; Steven Paterson, Stirling; Angus Robertson, Moray; Alex Salmond, Gordon; Tommy Sheppard, Edinburgh East; Christopher Stephens, Glasgow South West; Alison Thewliss, Glasgow Central; Michael Weir, Angus; Philippa Whitford, Central Ayrshire; Corri Wilson, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock; Peter Wishart, Perth & North Perthshire; Patricia Gibson, North Ayrshire & Arran; Patrick Grady, Glasgow North; Peter Grant, Glenrothes; Neil Gray, Airdrie & Shotts; Drew Hendry, Inverness; Stewart Hosie, Dundee East; George Kerevan, East Lothian