A Labour MP has said she “slept well” after being suspended by the party over a Commons rebellion on the two-child benefit cap – and suggested she was the victim of a “macho virility test”.
Zarah Sultana, one of seven from the party’s left stripped of the whip on Tuesday night for backing an SNP motion to scrap the cap, said on Wednesday: “I slept well knowing that I took a stand against child poverty that is affecting 4.3 million people in this country and it is the right thing to do and I am glad I did it.”
