MORE than 11,000 people have signed a petition calling on Sir Keir Starmer to restore the party whip to seven MPs who were suspended for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Leaders of fire, education, Civil Service, food worker and postal unions hit out at the Prime Minister’s “disgraceful” and “completely wrong” decision last month.

Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, ex-shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Zarah Sultana and Imran Hussain were kicked out of the Parliamentary Labour Party for six months for backing an SNP amendment calling for the cap to be scrapped.