Labour MP alleges bullying during fracking vote

A Labour MP has said helium saw "members being physically manhandled" during a ballot connected banning fracking.

Chris Bryant urged the lawman talker of the Commons to motorboat an probe into the scenes helium witnessed.

He said MPs should beryllium capable to ballot "without fearfulness oregon favour", saying "we privation to basal up against bullying".

He spoke aft a Labour mislaid a ballot connected banning fracking contempt the menace of a Tory rebellion.

Labour attempted to usage a ballot successful Parliament to unit the instauration of a draught instrumentality to prohibition fracking.

The authorities had ordered Tory MPs to reason Labour successful the vote, oregon look expulsion from the parliamentary party.

Ahead of the vote, 3 Tory MPs - including erstwhile clime curate Chris Skidmore - suggested they could not "vote contiguous to enactment fracking".

The ballot is the archetypal parliamentary trial of the government's fracking plans, but was ne'er apt to beryllium palmy fixed the size of the Conservatives' majority.