Labour has today suspended the whip from four MPs for their role in a rebellion over welfare cuts.
Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said:
"It's an outrageous and authoritarian act.
"The Labour leadership has clearly learned nothing from the huge outpouring of anger that the cuts to welfare have provoked.
"Instead of abandoning the benefit cuts that will force hundreds of thousands of families into poverty, Keir Starmer has chosen to purge Labour MPs who sought to halt this disastrous policy.
"The FBU will use its influence as a Labour affiliated union to seek to force the party hierarchy to reinstate those who have been suspended."
