Keir Starmer Needs Checks and Balances. Britain Has Few

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Keir Starmer Needs Checks and Balances. Britain Has Few

On Tuesday, Keir Starmer suspended the whip from seven Labour MPs because they voted for an amendment regretting that the Kings’ speech didn’t include a promise to scrap the two-child benefit cap. In itself, this act is extraordinary. I don’t think Tony Blair or Gordon Brown ever suspended the whip because an MP rebelled on a policy matter. When John Major and Boris Johnson withdrew the whip from Tory opponents during battles over the Maastricht…