Labour rebels declare ‘you can’t suspend us all’ as they hit back at threats over benefits cuts vote
Rebel Labor MPs returned to Sir Keir Starmer after being threatened with a black list to suspend or vote against benefit cuts.
The party whips warned Backbenchers that they would be removed from government affairs and reject the prosperity bill of 5 billion pounds.
When Sir Keir votes for the changes, Sir Keir is prepared for the greatest rebellion of his leadership, which will remove personal independence payment (PIP) to 800,000 people.
It is believed that approximately 50 labor deputies are planning to vote against the government, and more will be abstained in plans. However, the whip of the party threatened serious consequences for those who rebelled or avoided.
The humps tried to receive popular workers’ deputies to persuade their colleagues to support measures to get rid of the rebellion.
On Wednesday, Angela Rayner, Prime Minister Questions (PMQS) Sir Keir’e deputy, the government’s plans to reduce disability benefits against the Labor Party deputies refused to punish.
SNP Deputy Pete Wishart, the Prime Minister, the aim of removing the rebels of the Prime Minister asked after asking: “Certainly we are determined to end the poverty of child poverty. We already introduced free school dishes. We already support families. We need to give a live fee to millions of workers in need.”
And a Labor Party deputy told about planning planning plan Independent “They cannot withdraw the whip from all of us”. The deputy said: “This will be the deep authoritarian action of a workers’ government.
“When the government is on the blacklist for affairs, I think I will overcome it.”
And left -wing worker deputy Brian Leishman Independent “These welfare reforms are wrong”.
“Leadership would be good to remember the words of the past two workers PM – Harold Wilson added that the party had a moral Crusader or nothing, and that the leaders came in Gordon Brown, and that the leaders are gone, but the party’s mission is left,” he added.
After the draft welfare was published on Wednesday, Sir Keir reacted from the deputies and will lead people with disabilities to poverty and warning that the cuts will be “terrible”, “harmful” and “a disaster”.
More people have been adjusted to the benefits of illness and the reforms aimed at encouraging work, and to include the tightening of personal independence payment (PIP) criteria, which are beneficial to the main disability, as well as a segment of the universal loan (UC) and a segment of delayed access to only 22 years and older ones.
In order to eliminate some oppositions, legislation, known as the draft of universal credit and personal independence payment, will provide a 13 -week financial support to existing plaintiffs.
The Ministry of Labor and Retirement said that this would be valid for those affected by the changes in the PIP daily life component, including those who lost their career allowance and the caregiver’s end element.
However, a Labor Party deputy said that the concessions presented did not meet the demands of the rebels and that “a canard”, a scam or issue.
James Watson-O’neill, who ruled the understanding of charitableness with disabilities, warned that on Wednesday, cuts will “make thousands of people into poverty, difficulty and isolation”. “Many disabilities already find themselves in debt because the existing benefits are not tensed enough. It is not unfair to reduce the support at a time when the cost of life remains high, but also ruthless,” he said.
The Mental Health Charity Institution, the mind, said it was “extremely harmful ..
Politika Policy Director Minesh Patel said, ışma Struggling with your mental health is not a choice, but it is a political choice to try to correct public finance by cutting the income of disabled people. ”
Liz Kendall, Secretary of Labor and Pension, defended the reforms by saying that they were necessary as a “social security system at a intersection”.
He said: “Unless more people do reform, more people will be rejected and they may not be there for those who need it.
“This legislation represents a new social contract and points to the moment we take the path of compassion, opportunity and dignity.”
