Keir Starmer's backbench MPs could defy the whips in a vote on Friday (Image: Getty)
Labour MPs who vote for a climate bill risk losing the whip, the Express understands.
Sir Keir Starmer's backbenchers have been warned not to defy the party by voting for the Climate and Nature Bill (CAN)
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The Private Members Bill - which will be debated on Friday - is supported by 191 MPs, including 86 Labour MPs.
A Labour MP supporting the CAN Bill said: “Dozens of my Labour colleagues have backed the aims of the Climate and Nature Bill for years, and pre-election, the leadership did too.
“At the last minute, we are now being told we may have to vote against the CAN Bill. But what message does this send to our voters? Off of the back of the decisions on winter fuel payments, WASPI women and other U-turns and climb-downs, it tells them we are not a government of principle. Rather, one that cannot be trusted to keep to our word. And that, I’m afraid, will not end well for us.
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“Therefore I will not walk into the voting lobby alongside the climate deniers and those with their heads in the sand. It must be a free vote on Friday. Or better still let the Government support it themselves.”
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Private members’ bills require at least 100 MPs to be present for a vote to be called, yet Labour MPs say ministers have been encouraging backbench MPs to talk out the bill with long speeches.
Labour MP are said to have been instructed to be in Westminster on Friday, when most usually return to their constituencies.
It is not yet clear if they will be ordered to vote against or abstain on the Bill which sets out proposals to strengthen Britain’s emission reduction targets, protect nature and ensure the public have their say on the Government’s net zero and nature restoration plans.
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The Labour Party in opposition supported the “ambition and objectives” of the Bill but MPs say instructions from Government whips to not support the Bill puts it in jeopardy.