Dozens of Tories abstained and 13 rebelled after being told to vote instead for an amendment, introduced by South Northamptonshire MP Dame Andrea Leadsom, to establish a new, Conservative-led, committee to reconsider both Mr Paterson’s case and whether a new standards system was needed.
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