{"id":270229,"date":"2025-07-17T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270229\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:37:09","slug":"uks-labour-party-suspends-four-mps-in-rising-rebellion-over-welfare-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270229\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Labour Party suspends four MPs in rising rebellion over welfare policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As British Prime Minister tries to reassert control of his party room, four rebel Labour MPs have been suspended after voting against the government&#8217;s welfare reform bill earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer has defended the decision, which follows an earlier back-flip on key welfare measures in the wake of ongoing pressure from Labour MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the suspensions could deepen divisions in the party and spark further unrest on Labour&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>Guest<\/strong>: Claire Ainsley, Former Director of Policy to Keir Starmer, now Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>Producers<\/strong>: Teodora Agarici and Anne Barker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As British Prime Minister tries to reassert control of his party room, four rebel Labour MPs have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,102597,807,1144,102594,712,102595,16,102596,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-270229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-john-mcternan","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-radio-national-breakfast","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-steve-cannane","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-labour","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870501145428140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}