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On 23 July 2024, Labour withdrew the whip from 7 of its MPs who had supported an amendment tabled by the Scottish National Party (SNP)'s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to scrap it, with Flynn stating that scrapping the cap would immediately raise 300,000 children out of poverty. MPs rejected the SNP amendment by 363 votes to 103. [11]
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) who held seats at the end of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom and did not stand for re-election in the 2024 general election. A total of 132 Members of Parliament did not stand for re-election, including a record number of Conservative MPs.
The Speaker can order an MP removed from the house until the end of the day. The speaker more often "names" an MP. When an MP is named, a vote is held in the house in the same way as a normal vote on legislation. If the vote is successful, the MP named is suspended for five days for a first offence and 20 days for a second offence.
It was the first Commons rebellion for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Despite the whip, seven Labour MPs rebelled by voting to abolish the cap and were suspended from the party for at least six months. [14] [15] The seven Labour MPs suspended were John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Imran Hussain, Apsana Begum and Zarah Sultana. [14] [15]
MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has been suspended from the Labour Party after a complaint was made about his behaviour. The Brighton Kemptown MP said in a statement that he received an administrative ...
Sir Keir has previously suspended the whip from Labour MPs in response to comments about senior black Conservative politicians. In 2022, he suspended Rupa Huq from the party for describing then ...
This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2024 general election, together with the last date when each seat was represented by a different party.A record number of Conservative MPs lost their seats at the election.