Karl Turner. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PAView image in fullscreenKarl Turner. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PAKarl Turner has Labour whip suspended after criticism of Starmer and No 10MP for Hull East had recently given interview with Jody McIntyre, campaigner who stood against Jess Phillips in 2024
The MP Karl Turner has lost the Labour whip, after making a series of interventions criticising Keir Starmer and No 10, especially changes to jury trials.
The decision is understood to have been prompted by an interview given by Turner, the MP for Hull East, to Jody McIntyre, a campaigner who had previously stood at the 2024 elections against Labour’s Jess Phillips.
Turner had been informed by the chief whip, Jonathan Reynolds, that he had had the whip suspended because his conduct, a Labour source said.
