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I thought I'd stumbled across a good story while purusing the voting record for Thursday's House of Commons debate on Afghanistan. Andrew George, Sarah Newton, George Eustice, Stephen Gilbert and Sheryll Murray all trooped through the lobby in favour of keeping British troops in Afghanistan. Hang on, I thought, that's only five....

Alas, it turns out that North Cornwall's Dan Rogerson was not making a point. "I was in Cornwall," he tells me. "It was a prior engagement, constituency business, and I'd been released by the whips."