The 15 Labour MPs who rebelled in Keir Starmer sleaze vote

Greater than a dozen defy the whip regardless of being ordered by the PM to dam Tory bid for a parliamentary probe

Sir Keir Starmer

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ordered Labour MPs to vote in opposition to the investigation (Picture: PA)

Fifteen Labour MPs rebelled by voting in favour of a parliamentary inquiry into Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister is not going to face the Commons Privileges Committee amid claims he misled Parliament over the appointment of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador after MPs voted down the Tory bid by 335 to 223.

However 15 Labour MPs voted in favour of the transfer regardless of being ordered to reject it. Tory chief Kemi Badenoch had accused the Prime Minister of deceptive the Commons by claiming “full due course of” had been adopted and “no stress existed” in Lord Mandelson’s appointment because the UK’s high diplomat in Washington.

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Sir Keir has constantly denied deceptive the Commons over the difficulty as he battles for his premiership forward of subsequent week’s native elections, the place Labour is about to face a pummelling.

In the meantime, Downing Avenue accused the Conservatives of resorting to a “determined political stunt”.

Mrs Badenoch mentioned after the vote that Labour MPs would “rue the day” they voted in opposition to referring Sir Keir to the Privileges Committee.

She mentioned: “To save lots of his personal pores and skin, Keir Starmer threatened his MPs with the lack of their jobs until they helped cowl up his deceptive statements to Parliament. It’s a shame that 333 Labour MPs selected to be complicit in that cowl up.

“It is rather notable that the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister wouldn’t repeat his boss’s declare that there “was no stress in anyway” from No 10 on the appointment of Peter Mandelson.

“This can be a authorities coming aside on the seams. They’re extra fascinated by their very own survival than the price of dwelling disaster affecting hardworking households.

“Labour MPs will rue the day that they voted in opposition to this movement, as a result of it’s the day that individuals noticed they consider there’s one rule for Labour and one other for everybody else.”