A prominent Tory MP who was expelled from the party for skipping the vote of confidence in Boris Johnson’s administration has had his whip reinstated.
After being absent from the July confidence vote, Tobias Ellwood, a Bournemouth East MP and chairman of the Commons Defense Committee, had the whip revoked.
The former minister said at the time that travel complications caused by a meeting with the president of Moldova prevented him from attending the key vote.
He expressed his regret for not making it back to Parliament in time.
By 349 to 238 votes, Mr. Johnson went on to win the confidence vote.
As we begin this reset, the MP expressed his happiness at being “off the (Odesa) naughty step and back in Pty.”
Inclusion of Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor, according to Mr. Ellwood, was “smart.”
“We flourish when leading as ‘One Nation’ Tories utilizing a coalition of skills — addressing economic difficulties with sound money & budgetary restraint,” he said.
The whips office spokeswoman verified that Mr. Ellwood got the whip returned.
After Prime Minister Liz Truss fired Kwasi Kwarteng in favor of Mr. Hunt, there has been unusual turbulence inside the Conservative Party as a result of the MP’s return to the parliamentary party.
To calm the markets and bring some order back to her premiership, the choice was made.