Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has suspended three Labour MPs over breaching party discipline. The BBC understands Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff have had the party whip removed, meaning the MPs will sit as independents in the House of Commons.

SIR Keir Starmer has suspended three Labour MPs in a brutal crackdown on what insiders blasted as “persistent kn*bheadery”. The PM swung the axe just days before MPs break for the summer, in a

Labour suspended a number of its members of Parliament for breaking party discipline following a large-scale rebellion over welfare cuts earlier this month.