Voting lists show that 136 Conservatives - almost half of the party's MPs - opposed the bill.
Mr Crosby, who masterminded London Mayor Boris Johnson's re-election and Michael Howard's election campaign in 2005 - urged Tory MPs at Tuesday evening's meeting to focus on selling the party's message and stop airing divisions on social media.
In Westminster Hall there's more backbench business - MPs will debate the Communities and Local Government Select Committee's report on the European Regional Development Fund, and the government response to it.
But supporters of the plan have hit back, with over 50 Conservative activists, including constituency chairmen, the chair of Conservative Future - the party's section for under 30s - and the chair of the National Conservative Convention - which leads the party's grassroots work - urging MPs to listen to the "wider views" of voters.
On Monday, two of Kent's Conservative MPs - Laura Sandys and Damian Collins - said the teenager should step down.
It is an effort - both collectively as a party and individually as Conservative MPs - to address the public's anger about what has happened.
The Ipsa chairman has given evidence in recent months to two other MPs' commitees - the Speaker's Committee on Ipsa and the public accounts committee.
Mr Maude reminded MPs that Lord Hutton - Labour's former work and pensions secretary who led the review of public sector pensions - had praised the government's offer as "generous", adding that unions should "stop holding a gun to the taxpayers' head".
It's more about fed-up mainstream MPs moving against chronic complainers who seem to delight in advertising and deepening the party's divisions, on Europe, the coalition, on the economy and social policy.
Earlier on in the debate ministers told MPs that the government's 12-week consultation had attracted 10, 000 responses.
Sir Tom admitted to MPs that his bank's much-criticised purchase of Dutch rival ABN Amro had been a "big mistake".
The result of the vote was greeted with cheers and applause from left-wing MPs, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris reports.
On Saturday Nick Clegg met the party's prospective candidates in Highbridge, along with Somerset's four Lib Dem MPs - David Heath, Tessa Munt, Jeremy Browne and David Laws.
Government sources confirm that they hope to marginalise anti-war MPs by focusing Monday's debate on support for the UN resolution, rather than approval of British involvement in any possible military action.
Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle - a Merseyside MP - told MPs that West Yorkshire's Chief Constable, Sir Norman Bettison, an officer for the South Yorkshire force at the time, attempted to "fit-up" Liverpool football fans after the disaster.
No-one at the Labour party's Millbank headquarters could immediately explain their MPs apparent resistance to e-mail.
There'd already been a bust-up before Welsh MPs turned up for the Westminster Hall debate on the Assembly's electoral arrangments - and they arrived in the mood for another one.
An influential group of cross-party MPs has criticised the government's approach to cutting public spending.
Local MPs - Conservative Iain Duncan Smith and Labour's Stella Creasy - had urged for the plan to be rejected.
He still commands the loyalty of about a quarter of the DPJ's 289 lower-house MPs, which gives him plenty of nuisance value.
He emphasised too that the real decision for MPs would come - in around a year's time - when it came to ratifying any deal the government reaches in Brussels.
As well as Conservatives who want Leveson, there are Liberal Democrat and Labour MPs who oppose statutory regulation in principle - Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman, for example is an ex-Mirror journalist and is vehemently against any scintilla of statutory regulation.
Even without a majority, a Syriza-DL minority could attempt a legislative programme that relied on the abstention of some of Pasok's remaining MPs, tacit "non-opposition" form the KKE, and, paradoxically, the non-opposition of the right-wing anti-austerity partiy Independent Greeks (conservative nationalist).
The "Marriage for All" bill was backed by President Francois Hollande's Socialists and other left-wing MPs.
MPs from all three coalition parties - including Mr Papaconstantinou's Pasok - signed a proposal calling for his investigation for allegedly tampering with a public document.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
The DMK party's 18 MPs will not support the Congress party-led government.
Government supporters said it would be "nigh on impossible" to negotiate a budget reduction given the lack of support among other EU nations and urged MPs to back Mr Cameron's call for an inflation-linked rise as the minimum acceptable outcome.
MPs devised the system under their self-regulating arrangements and that's what must change for the future.
Executives from some of the world's most-recognised firms have been grilled by MPs on the issue of tax avoidance.
BBC: Starbucks, Google and Amazon grilled over tax avoidance
MPs will eventually be cut to reduce that country's over-representation at Westminster.
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