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.

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,

Sir Keir Starmer has executed a clampdown on dissenting backbenchers, resulting in the suspension of several MPs. Neil Duncan-Jordan and Brian Leishman have acknowledged their suspensions from the parliamentary party,