Keir Starmer left to sweat as Labour rebels apply heat over benefit cuts ahead of crunch Commons vote
Keir Starmer is still facing a harmful rebellion after the ministers admit that 150,000 people will still be pushed into poverty with benefit reforms.
With the prime minister’s authority, Liz Kendall, the Secretary of Labor and Pension, announced the use of benefit reforms that have been modified to persuade workers backbencher to convince the bill not to vote in a Crunch vote on Tuesday.
Apart from the joints, plans were strongly criticized by senior figures such as Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Mr. Burnam said: “What is explained, half U -turn, 50 percent of the turn. In my opinion, I hope that deputies will vote against the whole bill when they came before the Parliament.”
Underlining the scope of the chaos, Bridget Phillipson insisted that Sir Keir would lead the labor to the next general election. In an interview Independent Days before the Labor Party’s first ruling year in ruling years, the education secretary claimed that the government was “ups and downs ve and that it was a leading time.
More than 130 workers Backbencher had signed a change that would effectively kill the legislation-but the ministers hoped to prove their current personal independence payments (PIP) and other changes would end the rebellion.
Kendall also promised an investigation about the PIP payments directed by the Minister of Labor and Pension Sir Sir Stephen Timms.
However, even before speaking at Commons, a government influence assessment confirmed that 150,000 disabled people will still dive into poverty under diluted measures-less than 250,000 threatened by orginal plans, but many labor is enough to annoy the cruel and withdrawal of the “rush” legislation.
Debbie Abrahams, one of the main architects of the rebellion, Debbie Abrahams, President of the Labor and Pension Committee, did not exclude the vote against the bill.
Mrs. Abrahams, who negotiated concessions with Dame Meg Hillier, the President of the Treasury Committee of the Treasury Committee of the last week, proposed a crack on those negotiated.
Although he described the privileges as “good”, Mrs. Abrahams said that the rebels are “not there yet” on an agreement with the government.
“The real proposal to one of the negotiation team was not what we think we were negotiating,” he said. “There are some problems with this.”
When Ms. Kendall’s statement was almost completely silent in the joints, a number of labor deputies stood up to ventilate the anger of the deputies about reforms and to demand the postponement of the bill until the TIMMS investigation was completed.
In order to add Labour’s problems, Kendall admitted that the benefit deductions would only save £ 2.5 billion from taxpayers – not 4.8 billion £ as mentioned earlier – chancellor asked new questions about Rachel Reeves’ books.
While talking, two -thirds of the voters (63 percent) revealed in the jointly published vote, disabled benefits did not rely on labor.
A Downing Street spokesman previously refused to make more concessions as the Labor Party Backchers continued pressure.
A besieged lady Kendall speaking with Commons admitted that there were “real concerns” about the welfare reforms of the government: “We listened carefully and as a result we make positive changes.”
“Now we will ensure that the new four -point requirement will be valid only for new claims from November 2026. This means that the existing plaintiffs will not lose the PIP due to changes put forward in this design, and the existing plaintiffs with passport benefits such as caregiver allowance will continue to receive them.”
Ms. Kendall, who responded to the claims that this will create a “two -layer” benefit system, “including members, I can say that our benefit system usually protects the existing plaintiffs from new rates or new rules, because lives have been built around this support and people are often very difficult to adjust.”
However, Sarah Owen, the chairman of the women’s and equations election committee, warned the bill ahead before the TIMMS review was completed and that he could lead to “not only two layers but three layers”.
Among the deputies who demanded a delay in the legislation were Marie Tidball, a disabled worker deputy who attacked the government with disabilities with disabilities due to lack of participation.
He said: “This is not only about the process, but also these disabled people worse. The principle of justice is that people with disabilities have a legitimate expectation to be consulted, and the equality law 149 to fulfill the task of equality in the public sector.
“Why did the Ministry of Labor and Pension have chosen not to consult with disabled people on PIP offers, and what will the department do to recover the trust of disabled people?”
Stella Creasy warned that proposals may violate the obligations of the United Nations Convention on disability rights ”.
However, Calder Valley Deputy Josh Fenton-Glyn, the signature of the Rebel change, praised the criticism of the criticism for “listening”.
