Yahoo News Who are the 11 Tory MPs who delivered a crushing blow to Theresa May on Brexit?
Theresa May suffered a humiliating Commons defeat after the majority MPs backed an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill with the help of 11 Tory rebels.
In a night of high drama, the Prime Minister was struck by a damaging blow to her already diminished authority as rebels rallied around Dominic Grieve to back his attempt to ensure MPs have a "meaningful vote" on the withdrawal deal.
Eleven Conservatives backed a cross-party amendment giving Parliament control over the exit terms next year.
But who are those who sparked the humiliating result?
Dominic Grieve
Theresa May’s former cabinet colleague, Dominic Grieve, 61, was the backbencher behind the inflammatory amendment.
The Remainer was first elected MP for Beaconsfield in 1997, and says that MPs should sign off on the final deal for parliamentary sovereignty to be truly upheld.
The former attorney general tabled 19 amendments in total to the EU Withdrawal Bill.
One Conservative member of Parliament, speaking anonymously to Bloomberg, described Mr Grieve as the most important man in Britain on Brexit.
Heidi Allen
MP for Cambridgeshire Heidi Allen has been an outspoken presence in Parliament since she was elected at the 2015 general election.
While the backbencher voted to trigger Article 50, she told constituents in an article on her website that did not mean she is “reconciled to the result”.
She has made headlines for criticising the Conservative’s deal with the DUP, threatening to leave the Party if Jacob Rees-Mogg was appointed leader and predicting the Prime Minister would be gone in six months.
She said the result of the vote “will ensure Parliament can do its job”.
Ken Clarke
Tory veteran Ken Clarke, MP for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, was the only Tory MP to vote against the triggering of Article 50.
The staunch Remainer and former chancellor has been an advocate of Britain’s EU membership for many years.
He has denied trying to block the progress of Brexit.
Mr Clarke told MPs: "It's not a question, I may say to my desperately paranoid eurosceptic friends, that somehow I am trying in some surreptitious Remainer way to put a spoke in the wheels of the fast progress of the UK towards a destination to which we are going.
"They don't know what Leave means, nobody discussed what Leave meant when we were having the referendum."
Nicky Morgan
Chairperson of the treasury select committee Nicky Morgan holds a powerful parliamentary watchdog role.
The former education secretary was among 15 MPs named ‘Brexit Mutineers’ by the Daily Telegraph in November when she was thought to be planning to vote against the Government on a Brexit date amendment.
She claimed she was proud to be a Mutineer and believed voting for the amendment could “tie” the hands of negotiators.
After the vote was made, Ms Morgan wrote: "Tonight Parliament took control of the EU Withdrawal process."
Anna Soubry
MP for Broxtowe since 2010, Anna Soubry is among the most outspoken Tory Reamainers.
The former business minister has openly backed staying in the EU single market and customs union.
She warned that if not for the latest amendment to the Brexit bill, Parliament would be "effectively a rubber stamp on a done deal".
Tweeting after the vote, Ms Soubry wrote: “Govt has many ministers (including whips) who were serial rebels especially on EU. Compared with “Mutineers” - who are consistent loyalists.”
Sarah Wollaston
Health select committee chair Sarah Wollaston abandoned the Leave campaign after she voiced concerns about Vote Leave’s claim that Britain contributes more than £350 million a week to the EU.
MP for Totnes, Dr Wollaston tweeted that she was “Proud to #TakeBackControl of our Parliament” after the vote on Wednesday.
She told BBC Radio Devon on Thursday, according to the Plymouth Herald: “It’s not about stopping Brexit, it’s about giving control back to Parliament to get the right deal.
“Sometimes Parliament has to put its foot down and say no.”
Bob Neill
MP for Bromley and Chislehurst Bob Neill voted against Government for the first time in February.
He responded to being branded a Mutineer in November by saying: “My colleagues and I have no desire to thwart the will of the people.
“While many of us have made no secret of the fact we believe Brexit to be an error, we respect the result of the referendum and now want to see an orderly departure.”
Stephen Hammond
Party vice chairman Stephen Hammond was sacked by the Prime Minister in the aftermath of the vote.
Before the news broke, the former transport minister and Wimbledon MP said the rebels had been prepared to work with the Government to ensure a meaningful vote.
He told Sky News: "It's disappointing, it gives me no pleasure to vote against the Government but I've made it very clear that for me, this was a point of principle and just occasionally in one's life one has to put principle before party.
"I know that sounds pompous but I've never done it before."
Read Mr Hammond's chat with the Standard here.
Oliver Heald
MP for North East Hertfordshire Sir Oliver Heald campaigned to Remain in the European Union. He said to be in the EU “makes us better-off, safer, and stronger” and argued for the single market."
The former justice minister was in charge of Brexit negotiations in the Channel Islands before he was fired by Theresa May in June.
Jonathan Djanogly
Jonathan Djanogly, MP for Huntingdon, said the vote “was about ensuring that our nation’s future is discussed by Parliament and not just implemented by an unchecked Executive”.
He previously spoke to the Hunts Post about concerns over flaws within the Withdrawal Brill, saying “it will impede our ability to negotiate a clean exit and a decent new arrangement with the EU post our leaving”.
He also denied being a Remainer after he landed on the front cover of the Telegraph with the Mutineers.
In a tweet on Wednesday he said: “In leaving the EU, surely we should all wish to bolster Parliamentary democracy rather than diminish it through overwhelming HenryVIII powers #Brexit #Article7”
Antoinette Sandbach
MP for Eddisbury for two years, Antoinette Sandbach sits on the energy and business strategy committee.
Speaking on the "meaningful vote" debate, she said: "I don't want the Government to push it to a vote, I would like them to accept that amendment.
"Taking back control was taking back control to Parliament and not to the executive, to Government."
