In July last year, then-new PM Keir Starmer withdrew the whip from seven Labour MPs, suspending them from the parliamentary Labour Party. Three of them – Zarah Sultana, Apsana Begum and John McDonnell – have never had the whip restored and Sultana left the party altogether and co-founded Your Party, which now has almost a … Continue reading Starmer suspended seven Labour MPs for refusing to vote to keep children poor – but Mandelson still has the whip