Government whip Vicky Foxcroft quits over disability benefit cuts
Worker MP Vicky FoxCroft resigned as a whip on the government’s plans to reduce disability benefits.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, FoxCroft said that he understands the need to address the “increasing welfare bill”, but the personal independence payments and universal loan should not be “part of the solution”.
“He said that I wrestle in the government or if I had to fight for internal changes. Unfortunately, we will not take the changes I want to see desperately.”
A government spokesman responding to his letter, he said he had corrected a “broken welfare system” that fails the sick and vulnerable.
“Our principled reforms will ensure that those who can work, who want to work will be supported properly and protect those with the most severe disabled and health conditions.”
At the beginning of this week, the government released the invoice that tightens the criteria that people should meet to receive personal independence payments (PIPs) and cut off the disease -related element of universal loan.
More than 100 workers’ deputies worry about the bill and the government may encounter a great rebellion from their Backbencher when it was involved in two weeks.
On Wednesday, the Secretary of Labor and Pension Liz Kendall told the BBC that the “door was always open” to his colleagues, but the ministers were “solid in our conviction”.
Under the current system, instead of supporting to find a job, too many people were “written”.
In addition, the plaintiff’s levels have risen to unsustainable levels and Published figures This Tuesday, found that the number of people in PIPs reached the highest level of the record.
On Wednesday, impact assessments produced by the Government estimated that 370,000 existing PIP plaintiffs in the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland would lose under proposed changes and save $ 1.7 billion by 2029/30.
More than 430,000 decreases in the number of future potential plaintiffs can be saved.
Another impact assessment published in March suggested that 250,000 people could be pushed to poverty with deductions – but the ministers said that the figure did not take £ 1 billion that the figure would spend to help find jobs and disabled people.
As a government whip, FoxCroft was expected to convince reluctant workers to support the proposed legislation.
Lewisham said that he had left the North MP because he knew that he could not do the job necessary for me and for reforms containing deductions on the financing of disabled people – or really vote. “
He added that he was incredibly proud to serve as a part of the first workers’ government in 14 years and hopes that the ministers would revise these reforms, so that the government could continue to support the people of this country for delivery. “
FoxCroft was first selected for the South London election zone in May 2015.
