MPs defeat Government over moves to compensate infected blood scandal victims
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered his first Commons defeat after Tory rebels backed speeding up efforts to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal.
A total of 22 Conservative MPs rebelled to support a Labour-led amendment requiring ministers to establish a body to administer the full compensation scheme within three months of the Victims and Prisoners Bill becoming law.
The proposal, tabled by Labour former minister Dame , was approved by 246 votes to 242, majority four, prompting cheers in the
