No more Mr. Nice Guy? Jeremy Corbyn sacks three frontbench rebels over single market vote

‘Three Labour frontbenchers have been sacked for defying their leader Jeremy Corbyn’s call to abstain from voting on an amendment for the UK to stay in the single market after Brexit.
Shadow ministers Andy Slaughter, Ruth Cadbury, and Catherine West were three of 49 MPs who voted for the amendment to the Queen’s Speech brought by Labour MP Chuka Umunna.
It called for the government not to leave the EU without a deal, to guarantee a parliamentary vote on the final outcome of negotiations, to set in place transitional arrangements, and to “set out proposals to remain within the customs union and single market.”
Corbyn had imposed a three-line whip ordering his MPs to abstain because, although Labour policy chimes with most of the sentiment, the party does not support the bid to keep full membership of the single market.’
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