Keir Starmer faces first PMQs after suspending seven Labour MPs over SNP's two-child cap vote

Keir Starmer is facing his inaugural PMQs after winning a landslide general election earlier this month.

The Prime Minister will face grilling from MPs the day after he faced his first big challenge in the House of Commons.

The Labour leader easily saw off the challenge from the SNP, which amended the King’s Speech to include a scrapping of the two-child benefit cap.

But seven Labour backbenchers voted for the measure and last night it was announced they would be suspended for six months.

They include former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, ex-business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain and Zarah Sultana.

The House of Commons voted 363 to 103, a majority 260, to reject the amendment tabled in the name of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.

Although most Labour MPs voted with the Government it’s thought there are many in the party who would like to see the cap, introduced by the Tories, abolished.

Ahead of the vote, Starmer had said there is “no silver bullet” to end child poverty but acknowledged the “passion” of MPs who were considering opposing the continuation of the welfare measure.

Flynn said Labour had “failed its first major test in Government” by choosing not to “deliver meaningful change from years of Tory misrule”.