LEFT voices will be diminished but still put up a fight against the small minority around the Labour leadership who “remain obsessively focused on control freakery” at the party’s conference in Liverpool this year, grassroots group Momentum said today.

Seven prominent left-wing MPs remain suspended from the Labour whip for backing an amendment to abolish the two-child benefit limit.

A Momentum spokeswoman said: “While the balance of delegates at conference is likely to be favourable to Starmer, the Labour Party is beset with major internal disagreements between the majority of members and trade unionists – who support commonsense progressive policies such as the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and want to see an end to austerity policies after 14 years of Tory misrule — and a small grouping around the leadership, who remain obsessively focused on control freakery and are happy to have economic policy dictated by the Treasury.”