Members back the wage rise, but won't tear up a treaty

The most striking result of the day is a quiet one: members narrowly voted against the UK breaking international agreements when they clash with its national interest. The No case and plenty of Yes voters kept making the same point, that if you want out of a treaty, leave it properly. As one member put it, "Why bother signing a treaty if you will just break it".

It shares the day's honours for the closest result with the vote on electricity levies, which makes for a day of decisions made on the thinnest of margins and the bluntest of arguments.

The verdicts

Members comfortably backed raising the minimum wage to around £13.20, even if employers hire fewer people, carried by the charge that "Employers should not be subsidised by tax payers, to make up for poor pay." Then they turned on the pension book: compensation for WASPI women was comfortably rejected, the most-respected No case a blunt "The world changes", while Yes voters kept pointing to the Ombudsman's finding of maladministration.

On the electricity bill, members narrowly rejected paying more of the levies through general taxation. The top-rated case was that moving costs would simply hide them, and one No voter wanted more: "I voted no but I'd prefer them to be abolished."

Several results had a hard edge. Members comfortably backed automatically dismissing police officers who keep failing fitness tests, on firefighter-and-ladder logic, though the best-rated No lines kept returning to "We shouldn't waste the experience." Members also comfortably rejected photo ID for pay-as-you-go SIM cards, and the most-respected case was about safety, not liberty slogans: "many women facing abuse may have a burner phone for safety reasons".

Members comfortably voted to cut university tuition fees significantly, though the most-respected Yes voice wanted the cut for "British students only" and fewer "bullshit degrees".

Finally, members overwhelmingly rejected Scotland being an independent country, yet the leading No case conceded it is "entirely a matter for the Scots", while the top Yes case was a weary shrug rather than a manifesto.

A fresh ballot is open today, and the profiles keep building with every vote.

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