Tonight's expected rebellion by backbench Labour MPs could be the first of many as Keir Starmer struggles to keep control of his party in power. The government was forced into a U-turn on the welfare ...

We are not yet 12 months into this government, but already next week looks like it could hold the kind of parliamentary rebellion that normally hits a government in its last 12 months of life. Today ...

Many of the great advances of liberal social legislation have been made in the form of bills promoted by backbench MPs under a benign Labour government. The abolition of the death penalty in 1965, by ...

Sir Keir Starmer has suspended four Labour MPs as he seeks to reassert his authority after a series of damaging backbench rebellions. Rachael Maskell, one of Sir Keir’s fiercest opponents in the ...

David Lammy’s proposed reforms to the courts system have successfully passed their first parliamentary stage, despite accusations from his own backbench that he is exploiting victims’ experiences as a ...

A backbench Labour MP has called for asylum processing centres to be established overseas to stop the small boats migrant crisis. Jo White, who leads a grouping of the party's Red Wall MPs, told Home ...