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