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Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oscar Edinson and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Isabel Hardman.

So three weeks in for the new government and we've had our first Labour rebellion in a vote last

night on the SMP amendment to axe the two child benefit cap, seven Labour MPs revolted

and have subsequently lost the Labour whip. Katie, who are the seven and how has Starmer's ruthlessness gone down in Westminster?

So I think the first thing to know is that the seven are in a way the usual suspects. Obviously this is a new Parliament and you could

argue therefore it's a new awkward squad but I think the new awkward squad looks a lot like

the old awkward squad.

Effectively, if we go through you know, you had

Zarasoltana, who's very much known to be one of the more

Corbonite Tendency MPs.

And you've got Richard Bergengen who served in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet.

You have Rebecca Long Bailey who of course was seen as the potential Corbyn's

successor in that leadership contest when Kistama won.

And then you have John McDonnell and a couple of others.

So in terms of names, I think if you tried to guess who were the most likely

rebels, you would get most of those.

Of course, it's notable that Kim Johnson Johnson who was actually pushing for this did not decide to go against.

You also have some notable absences in the sense that Rosie Duffield was not there,

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