Sir Keir Starmer faces a Commons grilling during his first PMQs as Prime Minister on Wednesday, hours after stripping seven Labour rebels of the whip for backing the SNP on a vote on the two-child benefit cap.
Having spent four years as opposition leader, the Prime Minister swaps roles with Rishi Sunak for the parliament showdown and will answer MPs’ questions from the Government front bench.
The decision to remove the whip from the seven Labour MPs is an early show of ruthlessness from the new administration.
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, ex-business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain and Zarah Sultana have been suspended from the parliamentary party.
The House of Commons voted 363 to 103, majority 260, to reject the amendment tabled in the name of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.
The cap, introduced in 2015 by then-Conservative chancellor George Osborne, restricts child welfare payments to the first two children born to most families.
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