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Boris Johnson spent more than an hour and a half taking questions from MPs, but there was very little evidence from what was said of opposition to his plans from Conservative MPs. All those backbenchers who were happy to denounce the proposals in recent days, either on or off the record, were either absent, or quiet, or else had had a mysterious change of heart.

The most striking example came near the end of the session when Marcus Fysh got his chance to ask a question. At the weekend Fysh published an article in the Sunday Telegraph strongly critical of the government. Here is an excerpt:

I am alarmed at the apparent direction of travel of the…