Welfare cuts passed despite Labour rebellion
Acting Labour party leader Harriet Harman Labour was on Monday night in disarray after a fifth of the party's MPs rebelled during a vote on Tory welfare reforms.
Around 48 Labour MPs openly defied interim leader Harriet Harman by refusing to abstain on the Government's welfare bill which was passed with 308 votes in favour and 124 against.
Miss Harman believes that her party should not oppose all of George Osborne's benefits cuts in a bid to avoid the charge that Labour is the "party of welfare".
Rather than voting against the bill, Miss Harman wanted her backbenchers to vote for a Labour amendment and to then abstain on the second reading of the welfare.
But scores of furious Labour MPs decided to vote against the bill, with a number accusing Miss Harman of being "a ...