On Tuesday this week on 12th February there were two votes that took place, both of them were set out by the Government and so most of the Conservative MPs and indeed DUP MPs endorsed on the two events. The first one was entitled Income Tax (Charge) and so nearly 320 MPs endorsed the request and the people who tried to close it down was the SNP and two previous Labour MPs who are no longer formal members of Labour which were Jeremy Corbyn and Jonathan Edwards who is a Wales MP and there was also a member of the Alba group and a previous SNP member. Then the next vote was Capital gains tax (reduction in higher rate for residential property gains to 24%) and again the Conservative MPs and DUP MPs and the only people who rejected them were the same people who challenged the other item but in addition there was two Plaid Cymru MPs, Caroline Lucas who is the Green MP who represents Brighton Pavilion and also George Galloway who was previously a Labour MP.

It is very significant that on the second item that Caroline Lucas and the Plaid Cymru added to the SNP and Jeremy Corbyn. It was also fascinating that in Sussex that all of the Conservatives voted with the Government apart from Peter Bottomley who is the Worthing West MP and he is also the Father of the House of Commons!