Has Keir Starmer overreacted to his seven rebels?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has faced down his first rebellion by removing the whip from 7 Labour rebels who voted with the SNP to end the cap on child benefits for families of more than two children.
Did Starmer overreact? Or does it look decisive? And is this really the policy he wants to hold out on? A decade old policy of Osborne austerity.
We speak directly to one of the rebels who lost the whip and ask what happens now.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | It is a new era, a brand new world on the green benches of Prime Minister's questions. |
| 0:18.3 | For the first time in 14 years, |
| 0:21.5 | you have a Labour Prime Minister answering the questions, |
| 0:25.4 | and you have an opposition leader in Rishi Sunak, |
| 0:28.5 | who's, well, willing to make a joke. |
| 0:31.8 | And I also join with the Prime Minister, |
| 0:33.2 | in his warm words about our Olympic athletes. |
| 0:35.6 | I've no doubt that after years of training, focus and |
| 0:38.5 | dedication, they'll bring back many gold medals. Although, to be honest, I'm probably not the first |
| 0:43.5 | person they want to hear advice from on how to win. But I'm glad. It's self-deprecation and it |
| 0:51.5 | suits him. It is a new style, a new tone, even a new content that focus very much |
| 0:58.6 | on how the two parties would work together on Ukraine. But last night was a different story. |
| 1:05.4 | Last night, Kirstama faced the first rebellion of his premiership, and he took very swift action with the seven |
| 1:13.9 | rebels. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:19.7 | The news agents. It's Emily. And it's John. And I guess if everything looked like peace and |
| 1:26.4 | calm had broken out on the green benches today, it was a very different story last night because Kirstama faced the first rebellion of his premiership and his response was brutal. |
| 1:40.8 | It was an amendment brought by the SMP leader in Westminster, Stephen Flynn, |
| 1:46.0 | greatly reduced number of SMP members now, as you know. But this amendment was brought to call |
| 1:52.9 | to an end to the cap on child benefits after two children. And it was never a vote that |
| 2:00.3 | Kirstama was going to lose. He's got a whopping |
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