A Commons vote allowing full gay marriage on a par with that offered to straight couples will be passed “without a doubt”, a gay MP has told HuffPost UK.
Articles in The Guardian and the Independent on Monday suggested 100 Tories could vote against a motion to allow gay marriage, with Tory MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Oliver Letwin, David Burrowes, telling The Independent that gay marriage was “a debate we don’t need to have at this stage.”:
But Stuart Andrew, Tory MP for Pudsey, played down claims that a free vote on the issue in the Commons would trigger the largest backbench revolt among Conservative MPs so far in this parliament, HuffingtonPost.co.uk reports.
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