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#suspensions

Sir Keir Starmer's decision to suspend four Labour MPs for defying the party whip has triggered a strong reaction, both inside and outside Westminster. The punishment meted out to Rachael Maskell, Chris Hinchliff, Brian Leishman, and Neil Duncan-Jordan comes after the government was forced into two major U-turns on planned welfare cuts amid its largest backbench rebellion to date.

We aren't going to fire our way out of this. We're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.

Four individuals have been charged with the murder of 40-year-old Joanne Penney, who was fatally shot in South Wales; another suspect was charged with assisting an offender.