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    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 ...

    Between 2008 and 2012 lorries were involved in 53 per cent of London cyclist deaths The Government is looking at restricting lorries in inner-city areas to improve the safety of roads for people on bikes and pedestrians. David Cameron is said to have asked officials at the Department for Transport to examine whether some form of lorry ban would be feasible after a meeting with concerned MPs. Other measures the Department for Transport will be asked to examine include staggered light phasing at junctions, design improvements for construction trade vehicles, and changes to road design. Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Health Select Committee, said there was a case for restricting lorries based on past casualties. "Six out of seven of the deaths in London ...