Julia Hartley-Brewer reacts to Keir Starmer suspending a number of Labour MPs who voted for an amendment to scrap the two child benefit cap.
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, ex-business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain and Zarah Sultana have been suspended from the parliamentary party.
The Prime Minister saw off his first Commons rebellion on Tuesday, with the Government comfortably defeating an SNP-led amendment to scrap the cap.
Mr McDonnell had said before the vote: “I don’t like voting for other parties’ amendments, but I’m following Keir Starmer’s example as he said put country before party.”
Julia says "It's bizarre that Labour, until they were in office, were calling for the two child benefit cap to be scrapped... they called it hideous."
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6 сен 2024