Government loses Sunday trading vote by majority of 31 – as it happened

• Ministers suffered a serious defeat in the Commons as Conservative rebels lined up with Labour and the SNP to vote down plans to give councils the power to relax Sunday trading laws. A close vote had been expected, but in the event the government lost by a majority of 31 - a much larger margin than forecast. The defeat is particularly embarrassing for George Osborne, the chancellor, who made extending Sunday trading one of the key announcements in his post-election budget last year. Within the last week Osborne has also had to abandon plans for widespread pensions reform. It is David Cameron’s first major defeat of this parliament although, with a normal working government majority of just 16, more are bound to follow.

• Twenty six Tory MPs voted against the government, Labour whips have claimed. A full voting list will be published later.

• Ministers have strongly criticised the SNP for voting on a matter that does not directly affect Scotland. The government only lost because of the SNP vote, and Sajid Javid, the business secretary, described their behaviour as “childish and hypocritical”.

That’s all from me for tonight.

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UPDATE: I’ve corrected the first paragraph so it says this was Cameron’s first major defeat of this parliament. Last year he suffered a less significant defeat on “purdah” rules and the EU referendum.

The SNP’s Tommy Sheppard intervened on Sajid Javid to say that the SNP were just voting to protect the interests of their constituents.

Javid did not accept that. He replied:

[Sheppard] should be ashamed of his party’s performance today. He tries to behind a policy, but we know that the only thing the SNP was interested in today was headlines, and denying the people of England and Wales a change that through their MPs they clearly wanted to see.

In the Commons MPs are not embarked on the third reading of the enterprise bill.

Sajid Javid, the business secretary, has just accused the SNP of “childish and hypocritical” behaviour.

Brandon Lewis, the communities minister who led for the government in the debate, says the government only lost because of the impact of SNP, who were voting on a law that would not affect Scotland.

(At least, it would not affect Scotland directly. The SNP argued that relaxing Sunday trading in England might have a knock-on effect in Scotland, where Sunday opening hours are already more relaxed, but where workers are assured premium pay if they work on a Sunday.)

Here is my colleague Rowena Mason’s first take on the government’s defeat.

There were 26 Tory rebels, according to the Labour whips.

Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed the government defeat.

MPs were voting for a cross-party amendment opposing Sunday trading tabled by a Conservative MP, David Burrowes, but the government lost because Labour, the SNP, Tory rebels and some minor party MPs united behind it.

This means that Sunday trading has been taken out of the bill.

It is a big, significant defeat, on an issue that was particularly championed by George Osborne, the chancellor.

Angela Eagle, the shadow business secretary, used a point of order to say Osborne should come to the Commons to make a statement.

(There is no indication he will.)

The government has lost by 317 votes to 286 - a majority of 31.

This is from Labour’s Jon Trickett.

The Lib Dems have a free vote on this, apparently.