Jonathan Djanogly was one of 12 Conservative MPs to vote against the government in a key vote on its Brexit bill tonight, handing the Prime Minister a narrow defeat in the Commons.

MPs voted 309 to 305 to give Parliament a legal guarantee of a vote on the final Brexit deal that can be struck with Brussels.

The government argued that this would make it more difficult to secure a smooth exit from the European Union.

It was the government’s first Commons defeat on Brexit as last-minute concessions were rejected by rebel Tory MPs.

Mr Djanogly was joined by Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, Nicky Morgan, John Stevenson, Bob Neill, Stephen Hammond, Oliver Heald, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston, Antoinette Sandbach, Heidi Allen.

The son of businessman and philanthropist Sir Harry Djanogly, the MP for Huntingdon is a member of New London Synagogue and has previously hosted a Jewish Child's Day fundraising event at Parliament.