Prime minister counters SNP questions with statistics on Scottish child poverty after stripping seven MPs of whip
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Keir Starmer dodged questions about a Commons rebellion on the two-child benefit limit on Wednesday as he sought to strike a consensual tone in his first prime minister’s questions as prime minister.
Asked by two Scottish National party MPs about the revolt, for which seven Labour backbenchers were stripped of the party whip for six months, Starmer instead talked about the SNP’s record on child poverty.
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