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.

At least three Labour MPs are reportedly being stripped of the Labour party whip over ‘persistent breaches of party discipline’

Keir Starmer has suspended four Labour MPs for persistent breaches of party discipline, it has emerged. The prime minister decided to lay down the law after dozens of his own backbenchers rebelled against the government’s welfare cuts.