Tories who defied party orders

Conservative heavyweights Michael Portillo and Ken Clarke were among eight Tory MPs who defied a three-line party whip by voting with the government to allow unmarried couples to adopt. Thirty-five other Tories stayed away from the Commons.

Tories who voted against the three-line whip and with the government to allow unmarried and gay couples to adopt were:

• John Bercow (Buckingham)
• Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe)
• David Curry (Skipton & Ripon)
• Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove)
• Andrew Lansley (Cambridgeshire South)
• Andrew Mackay (Bracknell)
• Francis Maude (Horsham)
• Michael Portillo (Kensington & Chelsea)

Tories who did not vote were:

• Peter Ainsworth (Surrey East)
• David Atkinson (Bournemouth East)
• Crispin Blunt (Reigate)
• Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton & Honiton)
• David Cameron (Witney)
• Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold)
• Stephen Dorrell (Charnwood)
• Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton)
• Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale)
• Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley)
• Michael Fabricant (Lichfield)
• Howard Flight (Arundel & South Downs)
• Edward Garnier (Harborough)
• Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton)
• Damien Green (Ashford)
• Douglas Hogg (Sleaford & North Hykeham)
• Michael Howard (Folkestone & Hythe)
• Boris Johnson (Henley)
• Robert Key (Salisbury)
• Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury)
• Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells)
• George Osborne (Tatton)
• Richard Ottaway (Croydon South)
• Mrs Marion Roe (Broxbourne)
• David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds)
• Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills)
• Nicholas Soames (Sussex Mid)
• Richard Spring (Suffolk West)
• Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling)
• Anthony Steen (Totnes)
• Andrew Tyrie (Chichester)
• Robert Walter (Dorset North)
• John Whittingdale (Maldon & Chelmsford East)
• John Wilkinson (Ruislip-Northwood)
• Tim Yeo (Suffolk South)