BREAKING | Labour MPs BLOCK sleaze investigation into Keir Starmer in controversial Government vote

Uh it's been quite the interesting day

for our prime minister K Starmer. So

without further ado then let's cross

live to our political editor Christopher

Hope. Christopher, good evening to you.

It's been quite the day and it will be

quite the evening as well. Tell us more.

>> It really will Michelle. I'm talking to

you from historic Westminster Hall where

Charles the First was tried. All sorts

of dramas have taken place here and

today is the latest drama we're seeing

in the House of Commons as the prime

minister has tried to fight off claims

he would be put himself towards some

form of committee in the House of

Commons to work out whether he misled um

parliament um over the issue of

appointing Peter Manson as ambassador.

He must deeply regret that. You're

looking at on screen now at Darren

Jones. He is the prime minister, chief

secretary of the prime minister. Um he's

wrapping up this 4-hour long debate. If

you can, this is the actual motion

they're debating. I can you can see it

now. There are two key points in this is

whether the PM didn't follow due process

in the appointment of Peter Manson and

whether uh whether MPs agree that no

pressure existed whatsoever as he said

last week to MPs at PMQs in relation to

this case. Both those areas are

contested. Labour the Lib Dems reform

believe that the MP that the PM should

be investigated about that. Of course,

most Labor MPs resist that. Um there are

some rebels already forming mostly the

critics of the prime minister John

McDonald he of course is a famous he's a

left-wing um MP of course formerly um

the shadow chancellor under Jeremy

Corbyn he says this when you're under

attack like this you don't run from the

attack you run to face it so left-wing

Labor MP saying don't fight this one PM

go and have this investigation others

too Annie McDonald Nadia Wome in in the

past few moments but most are going to

be saying no, they vote against uh the

Tory Lib Dem reform uh motion. Um that's

because of the threeline whip. They've

been told to do so by by Labour by Labor

officials. If they don't do it, they

might well lose uh any any position in

government or or or that kind of thing.

So, and even lose the whip as well.

That's why they can't afford to do that.

For me, this shows the inherent weakness

the prime minister is in. He's got this

huge majority in the House of Commons of

100 over 160 and yet he can't really

rely on that. Now, a strong prime

minister would have said, "I don't

really care what happens in parliament.

It's play your games. I'm dealing with

the the global crisis, the wars in

Ukraine, the war in Iran." Instead, his

team have been making sure the vote is

got out tonight. Now, earlier we heard

from Morgan Mcweeny and Philip Barton.

They went over the all the all the areas

we know about from this story. What I

thought you might find interesting

though, Michelle, is Morgan Mcweeny

confirmed he had disappearing messages

on his WhatsApps, which means that

messages sent to him disappear after a

certain number of days or months. And

that could, I think, determine any

further damage done to Peter to the

Prime Minister Cirmer from this

Mandelson affair.

>> Order.

>> The eyes to the right. 223

the nose to the left 335.

>> Thank you.

>> The eyes to the right 223.

The nose to the left 335.

The nose have it. The nose have it.

Unlock.

Just can I just say

a member upon speaking to complain to me

and another member when other members

are shouting shame when they're voting

it is not acceptable and it will not be

tolerated. So I hope that the people

concerned will apologize to those

members that they shouted at.

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>> MPs voted against uh this motion.

Basically, the government won. Um they

voted 335 to 223. Uh so, the government

won by a majority of 112. That's 112.

Let me cross live to our political

editor, Christopher Hope. Christopher,

um there you go. The government then

just won. Uh your thoughts?

Yes, it's no surprise they've won. The

majority is a bit less than they the

notional one they have of just over 140

or so. Um which is smaller than of

course the last election. It's fallen

over the past few months as they always

do. But with me now is Jake Richards.

He's the uh justice minister to react.

What's your reaction to that win, Jake

Richards?

>> Well, I think Parliament has chosen not

to uh give in to stupid political games

when we have so many important crisis

we're facing as a country. We've got war

in the Middle East. We've got war in

Russia and Ukraine. We've got a cost of

living crisis that continues to hurt

families. That's what Parliament should

be concentrating on. That's not to say

there are serious questions about

Mandelon's appointment. The prime

minister has accepted that a mistake was

made. That's why we've got a foreign

affairs select committee process. It's

why we've got the humble address

process. This will go on for weeks and

months.

>> And the police, too.

>> And the police are obviously undertaking

their investigation. So, there is a lot

of scrutiny on this man and this

appointment. That's right. But we're not

just going to play silly political games

like the Conservatives wanted to.

>> But why on earth were your Labor MPs

forced to vote uh against the Tories?

And normally, these motions are free

vote. A confident PM would say, "You do

your thing in parliament. I'm busy

dealing with a cost of living crisis."

Instead, he forced your colleagues to

vote for him tonight. That's weak. I

don't think uh my colleagues were forced

to. I think we were very

>> they were the threeline whip is a force

>> the debate at the end and seeing the