Labour is the real winner of tonight’s vote
Sajid Javid found himself wading through treacle as he tried to make the case for the government's 'Plan B' to MPs this afternoon. The impediments to his progress were constant interventions from all sides, including his own, questioning the wisdom of these measures, the data behind them and the principles at stake. The Health Secretary tried to be as mollifying as possible, taking the majority of these interventions, even when they were from an MP who had interrupted him before. His respectful manner did mean that colleagues weren't visibly angry with Javid, but given their ire is largely directed at Boris Johnson, this tells us very little about the size of tonight's looming rebellion. It wasn't just Javid who was making the case for the restrictions.
