Parliamentary aide to Vince Cable resigns over fracking stance

#Energy Tessa Munt, the MP for Wells, defied government will by voting on Monday to support a moratorium on fracking

A parliamentary aide to Vince Cable has resigned after she voted against the government to support a moratorium on fracking.

In a sign of how the coalition is rewriting the rules of collective responsibility, Tessa Munt took 24 hours to leave the government after defying a three-line whip in Monday’s debate on the infrastructure bill. Ministers and parliamentary private secretaries who vote against the government usually resign before the vote or are sacked immediately if they decline to go.

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