The UK government has reversed the plan to overhaul the disciplinary process for MPs after it was derailed by an intense cross-party boycott. Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Thursday that he would now seek “cross-party” changes to the system after Labour and other opposition parties refused to take part in a Tory-led committee tasked with the review. But Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer rejected the suggestion, saying his party is “not going to have anything to do” with it. The Conservative government whipped through a vote on Wednesday to block the immediate suspension of Tory MP Owen Paterson that was recommended by the cross-party Standards Committee, and to set up a new select committee to review Paterson’s case and the current standards system. The proposed committee was to be composed of one Conservative chair, four Conservative members, three Labour members, and one SNP member. But the plan was immediately thrown into …