Q1) Do you think that if the vote on Iraq had been a genuinely free one, the
government would have been defeated?
Q2) Do you think that if the vote to trigger Article 50 had not been whipped, the
result would have been different?
A) Yes to both (former government whip).
Chapter 3: Case Studies: https://consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Cracking-the-Whip.pdf
tabitha troughton 