{"id":5526,"date":"2025-07-17T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5526\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:42:08","slug":"uks-labour-party-suspends-four-mps-in-rising-rebellion-over-welfare-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5526\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Labour Party suspends four MPs in rising rebellion over welfare policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As British Prime Minister tries to reassert control of his party room, four rebel Labour MPs have been suspended after voting against the government&#8217;s welfare reform bill earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer has defended the decision, which follows an earlier back-flip on key welfare measures in the wake of ongoing pressure from Labour MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the suspensions could deepen divisions in the party and spark further unrest on Labour&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Claire Ainsley, Former Director of Policy to Keir Starmer, now Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy InstituteProducers: Teodora Agarici and Anne Barker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As British Prime Minister tries to reassert control of his party room, four rebel Labour MPs have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,3223,420,50,2537,2539,56,3222,54,55],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-john-mcternan","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-radio-national-breakfast","tag-steve-cannane","tag-uk","tag-uk-labour","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}