Starmer Needs to Listen to Us, Says Labour MP Who Quit Government over Welfare Cuts

Starmer needs to listen to us, says Labour MP who quit government over welfare cuts

Vicky Foxcroft dramatically quit as a government whip in June amid concerns over planned welfare cuts

Speaking up for the vulnerable cost me the Labour Party whip, but ...

Rachel Maskell MP was suspended from the Labour Party after organising a rebellion against her party’s Welfare Reform Bill, which she said would introduce “Dickensian cuts belonging to a different era and a different party”. She does not regret standing up for poor and the marginalised, she says. It’s what Jesus would do Over the last few weeks, I have had to dig deep to understand why, in speaking truth to power, I have found myself suspended f…

The Labor MP said that we need to listen to the Labor MP who leaves the government on welfare cuts.

Sir ker stormer Your own MPs need to listen to, a pre-live frontbanecher who Slash has left his role on ... Read more The post The Labor MP said that we need to listen to the Labor MP who leaves the government on welfare cuts. appeared first on The Local Report.

Reinstate the whip for the suspended Labour MPs

A statement by the Labour Campaign for Council Housing. The decision to suspend four Labour MPs and take away the role of three trade envoys, following the row over the ill-health and disability benefit cuts, runs counter to the government’s promise to engage with backbenchers. It is completely unprecedented for 127 Labour MPs to sign […]

Reinstate MPs suspended for voting against Disability Cuts – Labour Campaign for Council Housing

“If the government cannot admit to mistakes, if it tries to silence discussion by using discipline as an instrument of fear, it will reap the electoral whirlwind.” Martin Wicks, Labour Campaign for Council Housing By the Labour Campaign for Council Housing The decision to suspend four Labour MPs and take away the role of three trade envoys, following the row over the ill-health and disability benefit cuts, runs counter to the government’s promis…