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Sir Keir Starmer has sent a informing to Labour MPs who person rebelled against the authorities aft suspending 4 MPs.
The premier curate suffered his largest rebellion connected 1 July aft 47 Labour MPs voted against the payment bill, which had been heavy watered down aft threats of a larger rebellion.
Last week, helium suspended 4 of the backbenchers - Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff, Neil Duncan-Jordan and Rachael Maskell - aboriginal defending his decision by saying those who "repeatedly interruption the whip" person to beryllium dealt with.
Labour main whip Sir Alan Campbell sent a letter, seen by Sky News, connected Wednesday to the remainder of the rebels, reminding them that voting against the authorities is breaking Labour's rules.
Each rebel's missive was personalised with a reminder of what and erstwhile they had voted against the government.
It was followed by: "I americium penning regarding your ballot successful the supra divisions.
"As you know, it is against the lasting orders of the Parliamentary Labour Party to ballot contrary to the frontbench presumption and successful truthful doing therefore, you person breached the whip."
What is the whipping system?
Most votes successful parliament are ruled by the "whipping" system, wherever MPs indispensable ballot successful enactment with their party.
Party whips, selected MPs and peers, rally MPs oregon peers to guarantee they ballot according to their leader's agenda.
A one-line whip means MPs are "requested" but not required to be the vote, a two-line whip signifies attendance is "necessary" and MPs indispensable petition support to miss it, and a three-line whip means attendance is "essential".
Disobeying the whip - voting against their enactment - tin bounds an MP's chances of promotion; they tin beryllium selected for unpopular duties, person the whip suspended oregon adjacent beryllium expelled from the parliamentary enactment (to "have the whip removed").
Some votes are "unwhipped" - a escaped ballot - wherever MPs bash not person to ballot connected enactment lines. MPs from each parties person been fixed a escaped ballot for the Assisted Dying Bill.
Labour MP Jon Trickett, 1 of the payment measure rebels, said helium had received the missive informing him helium had voted against the payment reforms six times successful 1 day.
"I don't repent my votes. I was elected connected a pledge to basal by working-class electors and supra each the poorest," helium wrote connected X.
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Sir Keir's watered down payment measure meant the authorities volition lone prevention £2 cardinal alternatively of the £5bn it said the archetypal measure would save, The Resolution Foundation estimated.
He has admitted the week of the ballot was "tough" and helium should person engaged with backbenchers better.
The PM besides said helium did not regret suspending the 4 Labour MPs, who present beryllium arsenic autarkic MPs.
He told Sky News: "I'm determined that we volition alteration this state for the amended for millions of moving people.
"I'm not going to beryllium deflected from that and truthful we person to woody with radical who repeatedly interruption the whip, due to the fact that everyone was elected arsenic a Labour MP connected the manifesto of alteration and everybody needs to present arsenic a Labour government."
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