Starmer expected to announce £2bn welfare concessions sparking tax rise fears
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to make great concessions about controversial welfare reforms because concerns will grow, the government will have to increase taxes to pay for dramatic climbing.
After a daily crisis, he speaks to the rebel workers’ deputies, Independent He understands that the Prime Minister agrees to irrigate the reform package, including protecting personal independence payments for all current plaintiffs, so that only new plaintiffs will be subject to more difficult rules.
The privileges may shave £ 2 billion from the savings of 5 billion pounds of universal loan and personal independence payment invoice and follow the Downing Street’s refusal to exclude tax increases for any change.
At least 126 workers signed a change that would effectively kill the welfare deductions and increased the pressure on the Prime Minister among the fears of a harmful Avamian defeat in the second reading of the bill next week.
It points to a great U -turn for the Prime Minister, which will hope that expensive concessions will be hungry for the rebellion within the party.
However, the government may now face a new headache after the best economists have been warned that the inability to pass reforms will prevent the budget of Rachel Reeves’ financial Headroom in this fall.
When the government was asked whether it would be forced to increase taxes if it was under water in the legislation on Thursday, the official spokesman of the Prime Minister, the ministers would like to take the changes “right ve and the chancellor will take tax decisions in the future.
Independent He understands that the privileges are mostly focused on conformity changes for the PIP, which is the main disability benefit requested by 3.7 million people. The planned reform was expected to reach approximately 800,000 people.
Before the rebellion of this week erupted, the current plaintiffs would be given a 13 -week stage stage as a movement that softened the effect of changes by softening the effect of changes. But apparently, Sir Keir went further and now he offers the rules only to new plaintiffs.
Guardian While the Prime Minister also agreed to expand and bring an employment support measures package, the welfare secretary Liz Kendall promised to initiate an consultation about the disability benefits that may bring more changes to the invoice.
On Thursday, Sir Keir insisted on the need for reforms, reported that the demand holders were “failed every day by a“ broken system ,, but he acknowledged that workers’ deputies wanted to see the reform of the justice values ”.
TORY leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir was “in the war of his life” after former workers’ Minister David Blunkett warned that if his prosperity plans were rejected.
The rebellion comes at a time when workers’ deputies are increasingly criticizing the prime minister’s participation in the commons, and in the first year he voted from Sir Tony to Sir Tony Blair – forcing his backbencher to take part in difficult votes.
Rachael Maskell, who was formerly a member of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Independent The government would have to accept a large number of changes if they gained support.
He said: “[Ministers would need to] … Accept a consultancy with disabled people, first they will have to end the cuts to the PIP without changing it with a fair system, and they will not have to reduce the universal loan, because it still leaves disabled people worse because they have a significant higher life costs. Scope [charity] He evaluated this as more than 1,000 £ per month. “
Another workers’ deputy warned that the only solution that the government could offer is that the bill is completely withdrawn and that the deputies are less likely to accept less.
“I will not support anything that will put people with disabilities in trouble,” he said. “The government does not listen.
“He does not see any 10 deputies as irritating and feed. The disrespect that comes out of there … We all work hard and treat us like this.
In the meantime, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) warned that Rachel Reeves will be forced to raise taxes or reduce other expenditures to reach their imposed borrowing rules.
The senior economist Ben Caswell said: “More thought -out policy, especially consumer and commercial confidence, can help reduce political complexity and associated economic costs.”
However, during a speech on Thursday, Badenoch claimed that Tories would go further than labor and promised to reduce £ 9 billion from the welfare bill.
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stide, who reacted to the concessions that were submitted by Sir Keir on the bill, said: “This is the last U-Rönüş list from this weak workers’ Government.
“Under the pressure of his own deputies, Starmer made another undefined expenditure commitment.”
For comment, contact with Downing Street was contacted.
