Sir Keir Starmer said he would not be “deflected” by Labour rebels after he stripped the whip from several MPs. The Prime Minister suspended the whip from Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff.

The Prime Minister suffered humiliation over planned cuts to disability benefits, and he's taking it out on junior MPs.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suspended at least four Labour MPs who have had a record of voting against the government in parliament. The Labour backbenchers to have been barred from the party include Neil Duncan-Jordan,