DERBYSHIRE MP Dennis Skinner has been voted off the Labour party's national executive committee by fellow MPs.
Mr Skinner, who has represented Bolsover since 1970, is being succeeded on the National Executive Committee by former housing minister John Healey.
Supporters of the 82-year old MP, nicknamed the the "Beast of Bolsover", criticised the decision saying it was "naive and immature".
A spokesman for Labour leader Ed Miliband said it was a matter for the Parliamentary Party.
