Between 1968 and 2024, not a single Labour MP had the whip withdrawn for voting against their own party. In the past year alone, that number has risen to eleven. After suspending seven MPs in July ...

Labour chiefs are not seeking to force Diane Abbott out of the party, says a minister after she was suspended for doubling ...

Keir Starmer has acted against the most self-indulgent of his rebel MPs, suspending four of them and sacking a further three from their non-jobs as trade envoys. The whip was cracked with deliberation ...

Exchequer secretary to the Treasury James Murray said it was ‘absolutely not the case’ that Number 10 had wanted Ms Abbott to out of the party.

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has been suspended for a second time after repeating a claim she made in 2023 about racism.