Labour won 262 seats in the 2017 general election but are currently down to 257 after the suspension of two MPs pending sexual harassment allegations, while John Woodcock, Jared O'Mara and now Field have quit the party whip in recent months.
The president said he had not yet heard Mr DeSantis's remarks but did congratulate the Republican candidate's party nomination victory on Twitter . "There is a difference in getting some of the Bernie Sanders people to vote for you in a primary and then going to the broader Florida electorate and trying to sell that message", DeSantis said.