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6:02Now PlayingKeir Starmer has suspended seven rebel Labour MPs who voted in favour of getting rid of the two-child benefit cap.
Nick Ferrari gets the latest from LBC's political correspondent Aggie Chambre and caller Trevor, who supports the actions of the rebels.
The SNP brought an amendment to the King's Speech to scrap the cap, which limits parents' benefits to their first two children.
Some 103 MPs voted for the amendment, and 363 against.
Seven Labour rebels voted for the amendment: former Chancellor John McDonnell, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long Bailey and Zarah Sultana.
The amendment had been backed by the Green Party, Plaid Cymru, the SDLP, the Alliance Party and several independent MPs, such as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The government disappointed some of its MPs in the King's Speech by not axing the benefits cap, which was brought in by the Conservatives.
Ministers launched a 'child poverty taskforce' instead.
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