[Politics] Scottish MP criticises Labour policies after suspension

[FRIDAY THE 13]

 

 

Just hours before he was suspended, Leishman asked Sir Keir about Fife bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis at Prime Minister's Questions.

After the Labour leader said he was working with English mayors to put in orders for zero-emissions buses in a bid to save the firm, Leishman posted on X to confirm that he was working with the UK government "to help save Scottish bus manufacturing".

The suspension of Leishman and others is the prime minister's latest attempt to tighten party discipline after his authority was undermined in the welfare vote.

Last year, he suspended seven MPs who voted against the government on a proposal to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

SNP deputy Westminster leader Pete Wishart said: "It says it all that the only Labour MP who has dared stand up for Scotland has been suspended by Keir Starmer - simply because he refused to betray his constituents like every other Scottish Labour MP has done repeatedly."

 

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