line and they include some very big tory name we want to go to london now our correspondent barbara biggs will she is on the story for us. tonights barber all right so the voting is going on right now and the numbers you know if the numbers are right this is going to be in the battle in the war over briggs into knowing the prime minister is going to lose the battle would you agree. it looks very likely because the latest we heard was that for a certain there are 16 tory rebels that would vote down the government would vote down boris johnson's and his ideas about steering the country into a hard for exit now that would certainly be enough for a defeat because we have also launched this afternoon that boris johnson has lost his the nominal majority of palm and the last a member of parliament of last m.p. who had sort of guarantee that he was at least one vote up in theory as sad notice of sudden had gotten up and sort of changed sides and sat down on the opposition benches and said if made clear his content for the prime minister because he did it while he was speaking and also sort of his cont