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Labour set to vote against early start to summer recess MPs will not vote on early start to summer recess
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Members of Parliament are to vote on whether to start their summer recess this Thursday, instead of next week. Members of Parliament will not vote on whether to start their summer recess this Thursday, despite the government tabling a motion to do so.
The government has tabled a motion to bring forward the summer break to begin five days earlier than planned. MPs would vote on the motion on Wednesday. A motion to bring forward the summer break by five days was not moved when called by Speaker John Bercow on Tuesday, meaning no vote will happen.
It comes as MPs have been debating changes to the prime minister's plans for leaving the EU. It had been tabled amid debates on the prime minister's Brexit plans.
Labour's Angela Rayner called the motion "pathetic" - her party, the SNP and some Tories oppose the plan. Tory MP Nicolas Soames said he was glad the "idiotic proposal" had been dropped.
Labour backbencher David Lammy said it was "a government that has run out of ideas". The government could have been defeated, as a number of Conservative backbenchers were against the motion, as well as Labour and the SNP.
Some Conservative backbenchers said they would vote against the motion including former ministers Nicholas Soames and Nick Boles. Sir Michael Fallon, former defence secretary, was said by the Daily Telegraph to be voting against. Speaking in the Commons, Mr Bercow said his "strong sense" was that "the status quo applies" and that Parliament would sit next Monday and Tuesday "as had always been the intention".
The Tory chair of the Health Select Committee, Sarah Wollaston, said she was opposed to an early recess - adding that her committee would be sitting as usual next Tuesday. "We were always expecting to sit until next Tuesday, that's what our electors would have expected," he added.
There has been speculation that the government might abandon the idea of bringing the recess date forward. "The government was perfectly within its rights, though it was pretty unusual suddenly to suggest a change, but the government appears to have thought again about that matter."
Downing Street said they were "considering all of the representations which have been received". Labour's Angela Rayner had called the motion "pathetic", while Labour backbencher David Lammy said it was "a government that has run out of ideas".
The Tory chairman of the Health Select Committee, Sarah Wollaston, said she was opposed to an early recess - adding that her committee would be sitting as usual next Tuesday.
MPs will return to the Commons on 4 September.MPs will return to the Commons on 4 September.