How did YOUR MP vote on Keir Starmer’s scrapping of winter gas funds?

Keir Starmer managed to efficiently keep away from a insurrection towards his controversial plans to scrap the winter gas cost in the present day. 

Some 10 million pensioners won’t get the allowance – price as much as £300 – this yr after MPs signed off the controversial measure by 348 to 228. 

Only one Labour MP, veteran left-winger Jon Trickett, supported a Tory movement to dam the transfer, and now faces having the whip suspended, whereas 53 MPs didn’t vote.

Though Labour sources insisted that only a dozen dodged the vote with out having been given approval. 

An additional 5 impartial MPs, who had been not too long ago suspended from the Labour Get together for rebelling towards the two-child profit cap, additionally backed the Tories – John McDonnell, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne and Zarah Sultana.

Many rebels appear to have stepped again from the brink after Sir Keir ruthlessly suspended the whip from a gaggle who voted to abolish the two-child profit cap. 

Ministers have been pointing to an anticipated £460 rise within the state pension subsequent yr in a bid to defuse the row. 

Official figures usually used to set the rise in April confirmed earnings going up by 4 per cent.

Sir Keir and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have been highlighting the prospect of a hike to offset the lack of as much as £300 from the winter gas allowance.

Ms Reeves final night time instructed panicking Labour MPs she wouldn’t again down – and urged pensioners might afford to tighten their belts this winter.

The Chancellor stated she didn’t ‘relish’ the lower, however warned there could be ‘tougher choices to come back’ in subsequent month’s Finances.

Ministers have refused to publish an evaluation of the possible impression of the lower, which is able to save £1.5billion a yr.

NO VOTE RECORDED 

VOTED TO KEEP THE WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE 

VOTED TO SCRAP THE WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE