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Minister dismisses Labour rebels as ‘usual suspects’; Starmer prepares for final PMQs of parliamentary session – UK politics live

Labour MPs voting for Badenoch’s privileges motion](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/803f385fa7de32f7eb39809b8f753fbc83caeb0d/0_0_2208_1382/master/2208.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Labour MPs voting for Badenoch

Keir Starmer to face vote on Mandelson vetting scandal as key figures give evidence to MPs - UK politics live

privileges committee. Labour MPs are on a three-line whip to vote against the motion

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voted 335 to 223 against a Conservative-led motion which sought to trigger the inquiry. Some Labour MPs on the left of the party said the PM should have referred himself to the Privileges

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Labour MPs must be given a free vote on any motion to refer Starmer to the Privileges

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Privileges Committee by 335 votes to 233. The majority of Labour MPs voted against the motion

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Labour MPs are likely to be whipped to vote down the Conservative motion to refer him to the Privileges

Call for vote on inquiry into claims Starmer lied over Mandelson dismissed by Labour grandees – UK politics live

Labour grandees – UK politics live Good morning. Kemi Badenoch is trying to get Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to give MPs a vote on a proposal to get the Commons privileges committee to investigate allegations that

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privileges committee. Senior Labour figures including Gordon Brown and former cabinet ministers Alan Johnson and David Blunkett called for restraint from backbenchers, dismissing the vote as a political stunt designed to destabilise the party before

Former Labour MP calls for Starmer to face Commons committee over Mandelson vetting

Labour feeling Starmer was wrong to fire him so quickly. The Conservatives, with the support of the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, have been pushing for the privileges committee to intervene in the crisis

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privilege motion”. Close observers of UK politics will, however, recognise these terms as familiar: they are all parliamentary tools used by Labour in opposition as they tried to hold the Conservatives accountable at various points

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Labour figures such as Angela Rayner opted to keep their powder dry. The government won the vote by 335 votes to 223, a majority of 112. Badenoch had opened the debate by accusing the Prime

Mandelson papers being withheld, says intelligence watchdog

Labour are trying to withhold documents about the Mandelson-Epstein affair from Parliament." He accused the government of trying "to pull the wool over the public and Parliament's eyes". Liberal Democrat leader

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privilege and a responsibility. They are representatives of our democracy. Almost everyone else doesn’t get to drink at work, so surely MPs can also do without. Though it seems that some journalists