Starmer still facing Labour welfare anger over fears of ‘two-tier’ system | Welfare

Keir Starmer is struggling to struggle over the deductions of the disability benefits of rebellion, and is worried that approximately 50 labor deputies will create a “two -layer kistem system where new privileges are present and new plaintiffs are treated differently.

The senior government resources insisted on “moving in the right direction ve for 10, and on Tuesday, the whip called backbenchers to persuade it to go behind the bill.

The government believes that after more than 120 years of opposition to win the vote, after promising to exempt the existing disability plaintiffs from changes and to increase the health element of the universal loan in line with inflation.

However, Rebel MPs will try to make a new change on Monday and give their colleagues the chance to delay the bill, which will contain £ 2.5 billion in deductions in future disability aids.

The ongoing order on reforms will burn the week to mark the first anniversary of Labour’s return to power.

In an interview yesterday, Starmer confessed to a series of mistakes, including using the phrase “a foreign island ve in an immigration speech and hiring former Chief of General Staff Sue Gray.

The government has made a series of U-turn in the last 12 months-but it may be the most harmful part of all of them.

Starmer hopes to draw a line under the difficult period next week, which reverses the government’s winter fuel payments and changed the course to investigate the grooming gangs.

Dozens of workers continue to speak against the welfare deductions in a worker WhatsApp group, many deputies are still undecided about how they will vote and that they will pressure the existing and future plaintiffs for more assurance that it is ethical and legal.

Disability charity institutions will still be “deadly flawed ve and will lead to a“ unequal future ve for different disabled groups and make life more difficult for hundreds of thousands of future plaintiffs.

Starmer defended the bill on Friday and said he hit the right balance. The changes will protect the existing 370,000 buyers who are expected to lose after re -evaluated.

Prime Minister, “We talked to his colleagues who make strong representations, we have a package that I think will work as a result, we can do the right,” he said.

The government was asked how experts would pay for 3 billion pounds, which they believe to be financed by tax increases or extra borrowing, and Starmer replied: “Finance will be used in the budget as you expect later.”

He will have to be at least 80 rebels to defeat the bill, and government resources said that Meg Hillier, the President of the Treasury Committee, would support the legislation after the changes.

However, others were not convinced. A leading rebel, “Everyone other than a handful of people is unhappy,” he said, even if they reluctantly support the changed legislation, the other 10 and the truck “people try to accept people before they see enough details” expressed disappointment.

York Central’s Labor Party deputy Rachael Maskell, one of the leading competitors of the bill, said, ılar They will have to go back to the negotiation table… Organizations of deaf and disabled people [DDPOs] He rejects these changes because he cannot meet the future need and does not give security for people with fluctuating conditions, for example, where people are in remission. “

Among the other critics who plan to vote for the bill, Crawley Deputy Peter Lamb said, “Despite many improvements in the system specified, they continue to be a cost -lowering exercise on the invoice. The participation of disability groups while making a plan for new applicants, the new scheme to have money and to save themselves to wash themselves.

Stroud Deputy Simon Opher, said he was still opposed the invoice: “Changes do not address the problems of conformity in the hearts of most of the problems with the pipe. [personal insurance payments]. We must be scrapped and start again and put the needs of disabled people at the center of the process. “

Diane Abbott, a leading figure from the left of the workmanship, said that the rebellion is “far from ending ,, while another workers’ deputy said:“ The bill begins from the pioneer of the segments, not the reform. This is only about the impact assessment and the common construction.

One thing forced by workers’ deputies is a clearer in the review of how the PIP system works by Autumn by a Labor and Pension Minister Stephen Timms. Many expects this process to change the score system from the recommendations so far. Some of the party wants Starmer to restore Vicky Foxcroft, who left Starmer as a whip to vote against the bill before the U -turn is made.

Stella Creasy, a leading worker deputy who signed the change to delay the bill, said he wanted to see more details. “Axiety is to be applicable… We must understand why we will treat one group of plaintiffs differently from the other”.

Apart from the purchase of 2024, a worker deputy said, orum I expect to look at the details before making any decisions. Many of them need to take more than midnight E -mail for hundreds of thousands of people in the same place and hundreds of thousands of people ”.

Labor MPs draw attention to the basic rejection of the idea that a Labor Party government will worse the disabled. However, at the same time, many of them were alienated from what 10 operations that did not contact the Parliamentary Party, and tried to support the legislation with the promises of threats and preferences of MPs.

“Honor disappeared and there is still a great doubt about whether they will take a stunt at the last minute,” a worker deputy said.

The majority of disability charities and campaign groups still opposed deductions on Friday. The scope of the philanthropy equality of disability, despite concessions, said that the estimated 430,000 future disabled plaintiffs will be affected by 2029/30.

Strategy Director James Taylor said: “It is encouraging that the government has started to listen to people with disabilities and deputies who have been campaigning for changes for months. However, these plans will still tear billions of the welfare system.

“The proposed concessions will create a two -layer benefit system and an unequal future for disabled people. If you are disabled, life is more expensive. And these cuts will have a destructive effect on the health of disabled people.”

A coalition, including the disabled, said: “Disabled People and Disability Rights Groups completely reject the execution policy that came into force by the government in response to the challenge by a growing MP rebellion and the wave of tidal anger from the people.

“By accepting the allegations that they have confessed to the prosperity to save the face, we will not sell past and future generations of past and future generations. Reforms are not considered and MPs still do not fully understand their consequences and effects.”