Sky News says 91 Conservative MP vote against Lords Reform Bill. That's bigger than the EU referendum revolt. Have half of all Tory backbenchers failed to support the Government?

By Paul Goodman
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11.30pm Update List of Conservative MPs who opposed Second Reading:

1. Adam Afriyie
2. David Amess
3. Steve Baker
4. John Baron
5. Guto Bebb
6. Andrew Bingham
7. Brian Binley
8. Bob Blackman
9. Nicola Blackwood
10. Graham Brady
11. Angie Bray
12. Julian Brazier
13. Andrew Bridgen
14. Steve Brine
15. Conor Burns
16. Dan Byles
17. Alun Cairns
18. Bill Cash
19. Christopher Chope
20. James Clappison
21. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
22. Geoffrey Cox
23. Tracey Crouch
24. Philip Davies
25. David Davis
26. Nick De Bois
27. Caroline Dinenage
28. Nadine Dorries
29. Richard Drax
30. George Eustice
31. Mike Freer
32. Richard Fuller
33. Zac Goldsmith
34. James Gray
35. Andew Griffiths
36. Richard Harrington
37. Simon Hart
38. Sir Alan Haselhurst
39. Philip Hollobone
40. Adam Holloway
41. Stewart Jackson
42. Bernard Jenkin
43. Gareth Johnson
44. Chris Kelly
45. Eleanor Laing
46. Dr Phillip Lee
47. Edward Leigh
48. Charlotte Leslie
49. Dr Julian Lewis
50. Ian Liddell-Grainger
51. Peter Lilley
52. Jonathan Lord
53. Karen Lumley
54. Jason McCartney
55. Karl McCartney
56. Anne McIntosh
57. Anne Main
58. Louise Mensch
59. Patrick Mercer
60. Penny Mordaunt
61. James Morris
62. Jesse Norman
63. David Nuttall
64. Matthew Offord
65. Mark Pawsey
66. Andrew Percy
67. Christopher Pincher
68. John Redwood
69. Jacob Rees Mogg
70. Simon Reevel
71. Sir Malcolm Rifkind
72. Laurence Robertson
73. Andrew Rossindell
74. David Ruffley
75. Richard Shepherd
76. Nicholas Soames
77. Bob Stewart
78. Rory Stewart
79. Gary Streeter
80. Graham Stuart
81. Sir Peter Tapsell
82. David Tredinnick
83. Andrew Tyrie
84. Charles Walker
85. Robin Walker
86. Bob Walter
87. Chris White
88. John Whittingdale
89. Nadhim Zahawi

Tellers: Peter Bone and Craig Whittaker.

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The 91 figure comes from Sky News. It may not be quite right.  But we can be sure that the revolt against the bill has beaten last autumn's 82 votes for a EU referendum.

So how big a proportion of Conservative backbenchers is 91?

Let's work on the assumption that there are roughly 207 Tory backbenchers.  This is because there are 307 Conservative MPs in total.  At least 80 serve as Commons Ministers or Whips.  Add the Parliamentary Private Secretaries - there appears to be no complete record of them on the net - and one can't be far short of 100 members of the front bench.

So 91 is well over a third of all backbenchers and approaching half - 103 or so.

But wait.  91 is just the number that voted against the bill.  There will be abstentions as well.  So it's more likely than not that if one adds votes against to abstentions over half of all Tory backbenchers failed to support it.

And since some Ministers will have held their noses and voted for the bill it's fair to say that there's no consensus for it among the 307 Conservative MPs.

PPS Conor Burns resigned from the Government this afternoon and PPS Angie Bray has been sacked for voting against the bill.