Tonight in the House of Commons, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party voted against an opposition amendment to their King’s Speech which proposed scrapping the widely-hated two child Benefit Cap.
Research has shown that abolishing the two child Benefit Cap would immediately lift around half a million children out of poverty.
However, for the last few months, Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves have argued that there is simply not enough money to account for the estimated £3bn cost of scrapping the cap.
But tonight, in the first Parliamentary test of Starmer’s new government, the SNP put forward a motion to test them on the issue.
In response, the Prime Minister implemented a three-line whip to try and force his MPs to vote against the amendment.
Seven Labour MPs – Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long Bailey, Ian Byrne, Richard Burgon, Zarah Sultana, and John McDonnell – rebelled against Starmer’s orders to vote in favour of scrapping the cap. Consequently, all seven have since had the party whip suspended for six months.
However, a total of 361 Labour MPs voted against it, causing the motion to ultimately be defeated by a margin of 363-103.
So, for your convenience, here is a list of every Labour MP that voted against the motion to scrap the two child Benefit Cap.
Jack Abbott (Labour – Ipswich)
Debbie Abrahams (Labour – Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Zubir Ahmed (Labour – Glasgow South West)
Luke Akehurst (Labour – North Durham)
Sadik Al-Hassan (Labour – North Somerset)
Bayo Alaba (Labour – Southend East and Rochford)
Dan Aldridge (Labour – Weston-super-Mare)
Heidi Alexander (Labour – Swindon South)
Douglas Alexander (Labour – Lothian East)
Rushanara Ali (Labour – Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Tahir Ali (Labour – Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley)
Mike Amesbury (Labour – Runcorn and Helsby)
Callum Anderson (Labour – Buckingham and Bletchley)
Fleur Anderson (Labour – Putney)
Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour – Gower)
Scott Arthur (Labour – Edinburgh South West)
Jess Asato (Labour – Lowestoft)
James Asser (Labour – West Ham and Beckton)
Jas Athwal (Labour – Ilford South)
Catherine Atkinson (Labour – Derby North)
Lewis Atkinson (Labour – Sunderland Central)
Calvin Bailey (Labour – Leyton and Wanstead)
Olivia Bailey (Labour – Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
David Baines (Labour – St Helens North)
Alex Baker (Labour – Aldershot)
Richard Baker (Labour – Glenrothes and Mid Fife)
Alex Ballinger (Labour – Halesowen)
Paula Barker (Labour – Liverpool Wavertree)
Lee Barron (Labour – Corby and East Northamptonshire)
Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour – Cardiff West)
Johanna Baxter (Labour – Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Danny Beales (Labour – Uxbridge and South Ruislip)
Lorraine Beavers (Labour – Blackpool North and Fleetwood)
Torsten Bell (Labour – Swansea West)
Hilary Benn (Labour – Leeds South)
Clive Betts (Labour – Sheffield South East)
Polly Billington (Labour – East Thanet)
Matt Bishop (Labour – Forest of Dean)
Olivia Blake (Labour – Sheffield Hallam)
Rachel Blake (Labour – Cities of London and Westminster)
Chris Bloore (Labour – Redditch)
Elsie Blundell (Labour – Heywood and Middleton North)
Kevin Bonavia (Labour – Stevenage)
Jade Botterill (Labour – Ossett and Denby Dale)
Sureena Brackenridge (Labour – Wolverhampton North East)
Jonathan Brash (Labour – Hartlepool)
Phil Brickell (Labour – Bolton West)
Chris Bryant (Labour – Rhondda and Ogmore)
Julia Buckley (Labour – Shrewsbury)
Maureen Burke (Labour – Glasgow North East)
David Burton-Sampson (Labour – Southend West and Leigh)
Dawn Butler (Labour – Brent East)
Liam Byrne (Labour – Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Ruth Cadbury (Labour – Brentford and Isleworth)
Nesil Caliskan (Labour – Barking)
Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour – Penrith and Solway)
Irene Campbell (Labour – North Ayrshire and Arran)
Juliet Campbell (Labour – Broxtowe)
Alan Campbell (Labour – Tynemouth)
Sam Carling (Labour – North West Cambridgeshire)
Sarah Champion (Labour – Rotherham)
Bambos Charalambous (Labour – Southgate and Wood Green)
Luke Charters (Labour – York Outer)
Feryal Clark (Labour – Enfield North)
Ben Coleman (Labour – Chelsea and Fulham)
Jacob Collier (Labour – Burton and Uttoxeter)
Lizzi Collinge (Labour – Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Tom Collins (Labour – Worcester)
Liam Conlon (Labour – Beckenham and Penge)
Sarah Coombes (Labour – West Bromwich)
Andrew Cooper (Labour – Mid Cheshire)
Beccy Cooper (Labour – Worthing West)
Yvette Cooper (Labour – Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Deirdre Costigan (Labour – Ealing Southall)
Pam Cox (Labour – Colchester)
Neil Coyle (Labour – Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Jen Craft (Labour – Thurrock)
Mary Creagh (Labour – Coventry East)
Stella Creasy (Labour – Walthamstow)
Torcuil Crichton (Labour – Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Chris Curtis (Labour – Milton Keynes North)
Janet Daby (Labour – Lewisham East)
Nicholas Dakin (Labour – Scunthorpe)
Emily Darlington (Labour – Milton Keynes Central)
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour – Pontypridd)
Jonathan Davies (Labour – Mid Derbyshire)
Shaun Davies (Labour – Telford)
Marsha De Cordova (Labour – Battersea)
Josh Dean (Labour – Hertford and Stortford)
Kate Dearden (Labour – Halifax)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour – Slough)
Jim Dickson (Labour – Dartford)
Anna Dixon (Labour – Shipley)
Samantha Dixon (Labour – Chester North and Neston)
Helena Dollimore (Labour – Hastings and Rye)
Stephen Doughty (Labour – Cardiff South and Penarth)
Peter Dowd (Labour – Bootle)
Graeme Downie (Labour – Dunfermline and Dollar)
Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour – Poole)
Angela Eagle (Labour – Wallasey)
Maria Eagle (Labour – Liverpool Garston)
Cat Eccles (Labour – Stourbridge)
Lauren Edwards (Labour – Rochester and Strood)
Sarah Edwards (Labour – Tamworth)
Damien Egan (Labour – Bristol North East)
Maya Ellis (Labour – Ribble Valley)
Chris Elmore (Labour – Bridgend)
Kirith Entwistle (Labour – Bolton North East)
Florence Eshalomi (Labour – Vauxhall and Camberwell Green)
Bill Esterson (Labour – Sefton Central)
Chris Evans (Labour – Caerphilly)
Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour – Peckham)
Hamish Falconer (Labour – Lincoln)
Linsey Farnsworth (Labour – Amber Valley)
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour – Calder Valley)
Mark Ferguson (Labour – Gateshead Central and Whickham)
Patricia Ferguson (Labour – Glasgow West)
Natalie Fleet (Labour – Bolsover)
Emma Foody (Labour – Cramlington and Killingworth)
Catherine Fookes (Labour – Monmouthshire)
Paul Foster (Labour – South Ribble)
Vicky Foxcroft (Labour – Lewisham North)
Daniel Francis (Labour – Bexleyheath and Crayford)
James Frith (Labour – Bury North)
Barry Gardiner (Labour – Brent West)
Allison Gardner (Labour – Stoke-on-Trent South)
Anna Gelderd (Labour – South East Cornwall)
Alan Gemmell (Labour – Central Ayrshire)
Gill German (Labour – Clwyd North)
Tracy Gilbert (Labour – Edinburgh North and Leith)
Preet Kaur Gill (Labour – Birmingham Edgbaston)
Becky Gittins (Labour – Clwyd East)
Mary Glindon (Labour – Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Ben Goldsborough (Labour – South Norfolk)
Jodie Gosling (Labour – Nuneaton)
Georgia Gould (Labour – Queen’s Park and Maida Vale)
John Grady (Labour – Glasgow East)
Lilian Greenwood (Labour – Nottingham South)
Andrew Gwynne (Labour – Gorton and Denton)
Amanda Hack (Labour – North West Leicestershire)
Louise Haigh (Labour – Sheffield Heeley)
Sarah Hall (Labour – Warrington South)
Paulette Hamilton (Labour – Birmingham Erdington)
Emma Hardy (Labour – Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Carolyn Harris (Labour – Neath and Swansea East)
Lloyd Hatton (Labour – South Dorset)
Helen Hayes (Labour – Dulwich and West Norwood)
John Hayes (Conservative – South Holland and The Deepings)
Tom Hayes (Labour – Bournemouth East)
Claire Hazelgrove (Labour – Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Mark Hendrick (Labour – Preston)
Meg Hillier (Labour – Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Chris Hinchliff (Labour – North East Hertfordshire)
Jonathan Hinder (Labour – Pendle and Clitheroe)
Sharon Hodgson (Labour – Washington and Gateshead South)
Rachel Hopkins (Labour – Luton South and South Bedfordshire)
Claire Hughes (Labour – Bangor Aberconwy)
Alison Hume (Labour – Scarborough and Whitby)
Rupa Huq (Labour – Ealing Central and Acton)
Patrick Hurley (Labour – Southport)
Leigh Ingham (Labour – Stafford)
Natasha Irons (Labour – Croydon East)
Sally Jameson (Labour – Doncaster Central)
Dan Jarvis (Labour – Barnsley North)
Terry Jermy (Labour – South West Norfolk)
Adam Jogee (Labour – Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Diana Johnson (Labour – Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Darren Jones (Labour – Bristol North West)
Gerald Jones (Labour – Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare)
Lillian Jones (Labour – Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Louise Jones (Labour – North East Derbyshire)
Ruth Jones (Labour – Newport West and Islwyn)
Gurinder Josan (Labour – Smethwick)
Sojan Joseph (Labour – Ashford)
Warinder Juss (Labour – Wolverhampton West)
Chris Kane (Labour – Stirling and Strathallan)
Mike Kane (Labour – Wythenshawe and Sale East)
Satvir Kaur (Labour – Southampton Test)
Liz Kendall (Labour – Leicester West)
Afzal Khan (Labour – Manchester Rusholme)
Naushabah Khan (Labour – Gillingham and Rainham)
Jayne Kirkham (Labour – Truro and Falmouth)
Gen Kitchen (Labour – Wellingborough and Rushden)
Sonia Kumar (Labour – Dudley)
Uma Kumaran (Labour – Stratford and Bow)
Peter Kyle (Labour – Hove and Portslade)
Laura Kyrke-Smith (Labour – Aylesbury)
Peter Lamb (Labour – Crawley)
Kim Leadbeater (Labour – Spen Valley)
Brian Leishman (Labour – Alloa and Grangemouth)
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour – South Shields)
Andrew Lewin (Labour – Welwyn Hatfield)
Clive Lewis (Labour – Norwich South)
Simon Lightwood (Labour – Wakefield and Rothwell)
Josh MacAlister (Labour – Whitehaven and Workington)
Alice Macdonald (Labour – Norwich North)
Andy MacNae (Labour – Rossendale and Darwen)
Justin Madders (Labour – Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Shabana Mahmood (Labour – Birmingham Ladywood)
Seema Malhotra (Labour – Feltham and Heston)
Amanda Martin (Labour – Portsmouth North)
Rachael Maskell (Labour – York Central)
Keir Mather (Labour – Selby)
Alex Mayer (Labour – Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard)
Douglas McAllister (Labour – West Dunbartonshire)
Kerry McCarthy (Labour – Bristol East)
Martin McCluskey (Labour – Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
Chris McDonald (Labour – Stockton North)
Blair McDougall (Labour – East Renfrewshire)
Lola McEvoy (Labour – Darlington)
Pat McFadden (Labour – Wolverhampton South East)
Alison McGovern (Labour – Birkenhead)
Alex McIntyre (Labour – Gloucester)
Gordon McKee (Labour – Glasgow South)
Kevin McKenna (Labour – Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
Catherine McKinnell (Labour – Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Jim McMahon (Labour – Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Anna McMorrin (Labour – Cardiff North)
Frank McNally (Labour – Coatbridge and Bellshill)
Kirsty McNeill (Labour – Midlothian)
Anneliese Midgley (Labour – Knowsley)
Ed Miliband (Labour – Doncaster North)
Julie Minns (Labour – Carlisle)
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour – Sheffield Central)
Perran Moon (Labour – Camborne and Redruth)
Jessica Morden (Labour – Newport East)
Stephen Morgan (Labour – Portsmouth South)
Grahame Morris (Labour – Easington)
Joe Morris (Labour – Hexham)
Margaret Mullane (Labour – Dagenham and Rainham)
Luke Murphy (Labour – Basingstoke)
Chris Murray (Labour – Edinburgh East and Musselburgh)
Ian Murray (Labour – Edinburgh South)
James Murray (Labour – Ealing North)
Luke Myer (Labour – Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
James Naish (Labour – Rushcliffe)
Connor Naismith (Labour – Crewe and Nantwich)
Lisa Nandy (Labour – Wigan)
Kanishka Narayan (Labour – Vale of Glamorgan)
Pamela Nash (Labour – Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Josh Newbury (Labour – Cannock Chase)
Samantha Niblett (Labour – South Derbyshire)
Charlotte Nichols (Labour – Warrington North)
Alex Norris (Labour – Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Melanie Onn (Labour – Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes)
Chi Onwurah (Labour – Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West)
Simon Opher (Labour – Stroud)
Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour – Erith and Thamesmead)
Kate Osamor (Labour – Edmonton and Winchmore Hill)
Kate Osborne (Labour – Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Tristan Osborne (Labour – Chatham and Aylesford)
Darren Paffey (Labour – Southampton Itchen)
Andrew Pakes (Labour – Peterborough)
Matthew Patrick (Labour – Wirral West)
Michael Payne (Labour – Gedling)
Stephanie Peacock (Labour – Barnsley South)
Jon Pearce (Labour – High Peak)
Matthew Pennycook (Labour – Greenwich and Woolwich)
Toby Perkins (Labour – Chesterfield)
Jess Phillips (Labour – Birmingham Yardley)
Bridget Phillipson (Labour – Houghton and Sunderland South)
David Pinto-Duschinsky (Labour – Hendon)
Lee Pitcher (Labour – Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme)
Jo Platt (Labour – Leigh and Atherton)
Luke Pollard (Labour – Plymouth Sutton and Devonport)
Joe Powell (Labour – Kensington and Bayswater)
Lucy Powell (Labour – Manchester Central)
Gregor Poynton (Labour – Livingston)
Peter Prinsley (Labour – Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket)
Richard Quigley (Labour – Isle of Wight West)
Steve Race (Labour – Exeter)
Connor Rand (Labour – Altrincham and Sale West)
Andrew Ranger (Labour – Wrexham)
Angela Rayner (Labour – Ashton-under-Lyne)
Mike Reader (Labour – Northampton South)
Steve Reed (Labour – Streatham and Croydon North)
Ellie Reeves (Labour – Lewisham West and East Dulwich)
Joani Reid (Labour – East Kilbride and Strathaven)
Emma Reynolds (Labour – Wycombe)
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour – Stalybridge and Hyde)
Martin Rhodes (Labour – Glasgow North)
Jake Richards (Labour – Rother Valley)
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour – Suffolk Coastal)
Lucy Rigby (Labour – Northampton North)
Marie Rimmer (Labour – St Helens South and Whiston)
Dave Robertson (Labour – Lichfield)
Tim Roca (Labour – Macclesfield)
Matt Rodda (Labour – Reading Central)
Sam Rushworth (Labour – Bishop Auckland)
Sarah Russell (Labour – Congleton)
Tom Rutland (Labour – East Worthing and Shoreham)
Oliver Ryan (Labour – Burnley)
Sarah Sackman (Labour – Finchley and Golders Green)
Jeevun Sandher (Labour – Loughborough)
Mark Sewards (Labour – Leeds South West and Morley)
Naz Shah (Labour – Bradford West)
Baggy Shanker (Labour – Derby South)
Michael Shanks (Labour – Rutherglen)
Tulip Siddiq (Labour – Hampstead and Highgate)
Josh Simons (Labour – Makerfield)
Andy Slaughter (Labour – Hammersmith and Chiswick)
John Slinger (Labour – Rugby)
Cat Smith (Labour – Lancaster and Wyre)
David Smith (Labour – North Northumberland)
Jeff Smith (Labour – Manchester Withington)
Nick Smith (Labour – Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney)
Sarah Smith (Labour – Hyndburn)
Karin Smyth (Labour – Bristol South)
Gareth Snell (Labour – Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Euan Stainbank (Labour – Falkirk)
Jo Stevens (Labour – Cardiff East)
Kenneth Stevenson (Labour – Airdrie and Shotts)
Elaine Stewart (Labour – Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Will Stone (Labour – Swindon North)
Alistair Strathern (Labour – Hitchin)
Wes Streeting (Labour – Ilford North)
Alan Strickland (Labour – Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor)
Graham Stringer (Labour – Blackley and Middleton South)
Lauren Sullivan (Labour – Gravesham)
Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour – Bathgate and Linlithgow)
Peter Swallow (Labour – Bracknell)
Mark Tami (Labour – Alyn and Deeside)
Mike Tapp (Labour – Dover and Deal)
Alison Taylor (Labour – Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
David Taylor (Labour – Hemel Hempstead)
Rachel Taylor (Labour – North Warwickshire and Bedworth)
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour – Torfaen)
Adam Thompson (Labour – Erewash)
Emily Thornberry (Labour – Islington South and Finsbury)
Marie Tidball (Labour – Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Stephen Timms (Labour – East Ham)
Jessica Toale (Labour – Bournemouth West)
Dan Tomlinson (Labour – Chipping Barnet)
Henry Tufnell (Labour – Mid and South Pembrokeshire)
Anna Turley (Labour – Redcar)
Matt Turmaine (Labour – Watford)
Karl Turner (Labour – Kingston upon Hull East)
Derek Twigg (Labour – Widnes and Halewood)
Liz Twist (Labour – Blaydon and Consett)
Harpreet Uppal (Labour – Huddersfield)
Tony Vaughan (Labour – Folkestone and Hythe)
Valerie Vaz (Labour – Walsall and Bloxwich)
Chris Vince (Labour – Harlow)
Imogen Walker (Labour – Hamilton and Clyde Valley)
Melanie Ward (Labour – Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy)
Paul Waugh (Labour – Rochdale)
Chris Webb (Labour – Blackpool South)
Michelle Welsh (Labour – Sherwood Forest)
Catherine West (Labour – Hornsey and Friern Barnet)
Andrew Western (Labour – Stretford and Urmston)
Matt Western (Labour – Warwick and Leamington)
Michael Wheeler (Labour – Worsley and Eccles)
John Whitby (Labour – Derbyshire Dales)
Jo White (Labour – Bassetlaw)
Katie White (Labour – Leeds North West)
David Williams (Labour – Stoke-on-Trent North)
Steve Witherden (Labour – Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr)
Sean Woodcock (Labour – Banbury)
Yuan Yang (Labour – Earley and Woodley)
Mohammad Yasin (Labour – Bedford)
Steve Yemm (Labour – Mansfield)
Daniel Zeichner (Labour – Cambridge)
