Three Labour MPs lose roles after voting against overseas operations bill

Defence secretary Ben Wallace says bill is needed because of Labour’s ‘illegal wars’ Labour has sacked three junior shadow ministers who joined with Jeremy Corbyn and 14 other Socialist Campaign group MPs in breaking the party’s whip by voting against the second reading of a controversial armed forces bill.Sources close to the party’s leadership said that the three MPs were warned in advance that they could not remain in their posts as parliamentary private secretar