Starmer Suspends 7 Left MPs For Voting To Scrap Benefits Cap

Keir Starmer's suspension of 7 MPs for breaking the whip is unprecedented. We speak to Zarah Sultana on how it happened, and what she'll do next.

00:00 Intro
00:42 Seven MPs Suspended
19:22 Mehdi Hasan On Kamala Harris’s Snub To Netanyahu
33:58 Labour’s Shoddy Defence Of Suspending MPs Debunked
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With Michael Walker and @NoJusticeMTG.
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[SimonCCFCUK]

Zarah Sultana was my local MP until the boundary changes. She gives about £20, 000 a year to local food banks and helped me when I reached out to her. I've met her too, she's the most down to earth, genuine person I've ever met and always wants to support the most vulnerable in society. Now she's getting punished for voting for such people. I'm disgusted with this decision. I never thought I'd see an autocratic Labour PM

[davidthompson]

Great respect for Ms Sultana, she's too good for this iteration of the Labour party.

[Matthew-bufg]

One thing's for sure, Keir Starmer wasn't wrong.

His dad really was a toolmaker.

[Tahm_Butterworth]

Zara Sultana is my hero and I want my daughter to grow up to be like her.

[rustynail]

"Labour is a broad church"

My arse

[Marco-Hylander]

Kid Starver living up to his name 🤦‍♂️ ……… shameful

[mrgrumpy]

whether for the cap or not .. MP's should vote according to the way their constituents want them to vote, they are representatives of their constituents, .. starmer has no mandate to override that

[judithmatthews]

This a woman of character and integrity but Starmer seeks to crush her, because she speaks for the most vulnerable in UK society. He refuses to make a difference by taxing the most wealthy a minute portion of their tripled wealth under the Tories. She in contrast champions what she believes in. I applaud her.

[AliceWatts-dv]

I really value her principled position but as a past Labour member & voter it is NO LONGER a party of the Workers or the Community 🇵🇸

[MikeL-]

Kid Starver. Tough on children, tough on the causes of children.

[max]

What happened to Starmer's "Country first, Party second?"

[TheLampini]

Zarah Sultana shows yet again that shes a proper representative of her constituency. Coventry is a very poor area and this policy has hurt a lot of people. Well done Zarah - again! ❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[twistedsanity]

Welcome to the Starmer dictatorship, he's such a snake.

[randomtask]

What's the point in a vote if you will get suspended for not voting the way you're told to?

[edwardwilliamson]

Good interview Michael, please do more of these with MPs from across the house

[rustyjames]

Keir doesn't care about innocent children murdered and starved in Gazza
What makes you think he cares about this issue
Peace family

[MrTenderisthenight]

The seeds of Starmer's inevitable political downfall have been sown..

[sirophic]

What Labour has done by suspending the whip is pure bullying. This kind of thing wouldn't be acceptable in any normal workplace, why should it be acceptable here?

[Sam-ld]

Love you program. Thanks for bringing Mehdi. Him going to USA is our loss.

[samanthah]

The whips are allowed to frighten MPs but if the public do that's disgusting.
I'd have to tell them where to put their whip. I'd only be able to be an independent MP. It's not democratic to be ordered what to do.