An MP described the vote as "chaos" with claims, denied by cabinet ministers, that Conservative whips had manhandled and bullied backbenchers into voting against.[25][26] Labour MP Chris Bryant made claims on Sky News saying that he saw MPs "physically manhandled through the voting lobby" naming Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Thérèse Coffey, along with Jacob Rees-Mogg, as those he saw in the "group". Later that evening, the House's speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, announced that he had asked the Serjeant at Arms and other parliamentary officials to investigate the allegations made about the incident.[27]