The rebellions in Labour are totally as you would expect. As I said on 7 June at 2:10 the Labour approach seemed to me to be pushing an approach they knew could not win, and so it is no surprise that there were lots of rebels.

But that is a different order to apparent deceit in what the words to be written into law would be.


As to the SNP: I said a while back - and was contradicted - that not enough time was allocated to discussing these amendment.
The suggestion that the problems arose because Labour wanted to vote on the amendments is silly: voting in amendments is what Parliament does.

However, I also think it likely the SNP would have found a different reason to proteat if they had had enough time.