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Only a small band of Labour MPs rebelled yesterday against Ed Miliband's backing for Chancellor George Osborne's cruel cap on welfare benefits.
Just 13 Labour members ventured into the No lobby during a Commons vote on the permanent cap, which Mr Osborne has set at £119.5 billion for next year.
Some others abstained as the cap was voted through by 520 votes to 22, a massive majority of 498.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP