2024 suspension of rebel Labour MPs

On 23 July 2024, the British Labour Party withdrew the whip from seven of its MPs who had supported an amendment tabled by the Scottish National Party Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to scrap the two child benefit cap. MPs rejected the SNP amendment by 363 votes to 103.

The seven Labour MPs suspended for six months were John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Imran Hussain, Apsana Begum and Zarah Sultana, who subsequently sat as independents but remained members of the Labour Party. In early 2025 Burgon, Byrne, Long-Bailey and Hussain's suspensions were ended and they re-joined the Parliamentary Labour Party. McDonnell and Begum's suspensions were subsequently ended in September 2025.

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