Three Labour MPs suspended for breaches of party discipline

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Sir Keir Starmer has suspended astatine slightest 3 MPs for repeated breaches of enactment discipline, Sky News understands.

Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan-Jordan person mislaid the whip, meaning they are nary longer portion of Labour's parliamentary enactment and volition beryllium arsenic autarkic MPs.

A 4th MP, Rachel Maskell, is presently successful meetings with paty whips.

All 4 had voted against the government's payment reforms earlier this month. However, it's understood this isn't the lone crushed down the decision.

Over 100 MPs had initially rebelled against the program to chopped idiosyncratic autarkic payments (pip). Ultimately 47 voted against the bill's 3rd reading, aft it was watered down importantly successful the look of backlash.

The 3 suspended MPs were each recently elected successful 2024.

Mr Hinchliff, for North East Hertfordshire, told section media successful June that helium was consenting to suffer the whip implicit the payment reforms.

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