Labour MP alleges Tories were "bullied" in voting lobby Labour MP Chris Bryant said Alexander Stafford, the Conservative MP for Rother Valley was “manhandled” and “bullied” in the voting lobby. Bryant told Sky News: “There was a bunch of Conservative members who were completely uncertain about whether they were allowed to vote with the Labour motion because of what had been said in the chamber about whether it’s a free vote or a confidence vote. “There was a group - including several cabinet ministers - who were basically shouting at them. At least one member was physically pulled through the door into the voting lobby.” A summary of today"s developments Grant Shapps has been appointed the new home secretary after Suella Braverman resigned this afternoon. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said the resignation of Braverman shows the government is “falling apart at the seams”. Braverman said she resigned because she sent an official government document to an MP and this was “a technical infringement of the rules”. The document was a draft written ministerial statement about migration. Braverman said she sent the official document from her personal email. She added she has “concerns about the direction of this government”. The government defeated a Labour motion that would have forced a vote on a bill to ban fracking. MPs voted 230 for yes, 326 for no. Labour’s Chris Bryant said he saw MPs being “physically manhandled” and “bullied” in the voting lobbies. Bryant told Sky News: “There was a bunch of Conservative members who were completely uncertain about whether they were allowed to vote with the Labour motion because of what had been said in the chamber about whether it’s a free vote or a confidence vote. “There was a group - including several cabinet ministers - who were basically shouting at them. At least one member was physically pulled through the door into the voting lobby.” Lord David Frost of Allenton has written in the Telegraph calling for Liz Truss to resign. “Truss just can’t stay in office for one very obvious reason: she campaigned against the policies she is now implementing. The Conservative chief and deputy chief whip remain in post, Downing Street said. It follows confusion over whether Wendy Morton and Craig Whittaker quit amid the chaos of the fracking vote, with reports earlier suggesting they had MPs passed the Labour motion criticising the mini-budget by 223 votes to 0. As is often the case with opposition day motions, the government told its MPs to abstain. William Wragg, a Conservative MP, said that he has written a letter to Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, calling for a vote of no confidence in Liz Truss. Jason Stein, a special adviser to Liz Truss, has been suspended pending an investigation, Sky News reports. Sky says he is being investigated by the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics unit. There have been allegations that he was behind unauthorised negative briefings against former cabinet ministers, Sky says. Sir Keir Starmer will accuse Liz Truss of “insulting” British workers while pledging a Labour government will repeal any new Conservative legislation restricting the right to strike. In his address to the annual TUC conference on Thursday, the Labour leader will say the Tories are “completely out of touch with the reality of the British economy”. Senior Tory backbencher Sir Roger Gale predicted that Liz Truss could emerge stronger after Suella Braverman’s resignation. The North Thanet MP told the PA news agency: “On balance, at the end of today I would say, in a peculiar way – and it is peculiar – Truss might come out of it stronger. I may be completely wrong and out of touch.” Tom Bradby, in his introduction to the ITV news bulletin, described today’s events at Westminster as “total, absolutely abject chaos”. The front of Thursday’s Guardian. Thursday’s Metro. The front page of tomorrow’s Mirror. Thursday’s Telegraph. Here is a roundup of some of Thursday’s front pages, starting with the Times. Sir Keir Starmer will accuse Liz Truss of “insulting” British workers while pledging a Labour government will repeal any new Conservative legislation restricting the right to strike. In his address to the annual TUC conference on Thursday, the Labour leader will say the Tories are “completely out of touch with the reality of the British economy”. He will highlight a leaked audio recording of Truss when she was Treasury chief secretary under Theresa May saying workers in the UK lacked the “skill and application” of their foreign counterparts and needed “a bit more graft”. “To get our country out of the hole that they dug, they turn to austerity and they turn to you – to your members and their rights,” he will say, according to advance extracts of his speech. “It’s delusional. It’s insulting. If they bring forward further restrictions on workers’ rights or the right to strike, we will oppose and we will repeal.” Lord David Frost of Allenton has written in the Telegraph calling for Liz Truss to resign. “Truss just can’t stay in office for one very obvious reason: she campaigned against the policies she is now implementing. “However masterfully she now implements them – and it doesn’t seem that it will be very masterfully – it just won’t do. She said she wouldn’t U-turn, and then she did. Her fate is to be the Henry VI of modern politics – a weak figurehead, unable to control the forces around her, occasionally humiliated, and disposed of when she has become inconvenient. Better to go now.” There appears to have been some technical hiccups during the fracking vote. James Duddridge MP said his card did not scan. And Downing Street told Sky News that Liz Truss did vote after all. The prime minister was among a list of 40 Tory MPs listed as having abstained. A spokesperson for Theresa May told Sky News the former prime minister was “paired” for the fracking vote earlier this evening. She was listed as among those who abstained. Pairing is when one MP makes an agreement with another MP who is voting the opposite way and they both agree not to vote. Here is the footage of Conservative backbencher Charles Walker’s BBC interview over allegations of “bullying” during the vote on a possible fracking ban. Conservative chief and deputy chief whip remain in post The Conservative chief and deputy chief whip remain in post, Downing Street said. It follows confusion over whether Wendy Morton and Craig Whittaker quit amid the chaos of the fracking vote, with reports earlier suggesting they had. TalkTV’s Kate McCann says a Tory whip was “in tears” this evening, with emotions running high within the party. The deputy prime minister, Thérèse Coffey, has said the chief whip, Wendy Morton, did a “great job” with the fracking vote. Speaking to reporters outside the Carlton Club in central London, where Cabinet members were meeting on Wednesday evening, the close Liz Truss ally said: “It was a great victory today for the chief whip, great credit to her. “The chief whip did a great job.” Rumours have been swirling all evening that both Wendy Morton and Craig Whittaker, the deputy chief whip, have resigned their posts. (See 20.32) Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, has said if the embattled prime minister had “an ounce of decency, or any self-respect” she would quit before she is forced out by her MPs. Blackford said: “Liz Truss needs to go – and she needs to go now. “The utter chaos at the centre of the Tory government cannot continue any longer. “It’s wrecking the economy and damaging people’s mortgages, pensions and incomes. “If she had an ounce of decency, or any self-respect, the prime minister would resign before she is inevitably forced from office. “And then there must be an election.”