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Commons passes Government's fiscal charter

The Government's Charter for Budget Responsibility has passed the Commons 320 to 258, majority 62, following days of bitter rows in Labour's ranks over whether to oppose the plan.

A total of 20 Labour MPs abstained from the vote.

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Corbyn: I'm not upset by dissenters, I used to be one

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking to ITV West said that he was "not in the least" upset about 20 dissenters in his party that abstained from the fiscal charter vote.

I've been a dissenter myself in the past. I will accommodate that, I will talk to them about it and I hope they will understand the economic direction we want Labour to go in.

– Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn

Asked whether he, like his shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, was embarrassed by the u-turn on the economic policy, he said he was "sorry that it happened the way it did" but insisted that Labour now has a clear position.

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