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KEY EVENTS
No 10, ‘MPs have listened to the speed of change,’ he does not defend the U -turn.
Here he was published by Downing Street about his return overnight. A 10 spokespersons in question:
We listened to the deputies who supported the principle of reform but worried about the rate of change for those supported by the system.
This package will protect the social security system for those who need it by putting a sustainable basis, provide dignity for those who cannot work, support and reduce the anxiety for people in the system.
Our reforms are supported by our labor values and the determination of the country’s change to vote last year.
The full text of Liz Kendall’s letter to workers’ deputies is Welfare Bill U-Turn
Liz Kendall, Labor and Pension Secretary, in a letter to the Labor Party MPs announced the changes of the bill. The full text has become available overnight. For registration, here is full.
Kendall says that the changes will “strengthen the bill ,, this is a new way to define a humiliating U-turn, but the bill will now be strong enough to go through the Avamons.
My dear colleague,
We have always said that we are determined to reform in the social security system, so it provides dignity and respect for those who cannot work, supports and supports the sustainable ones, so it happens for future generations.
The broken system we inherited from Tories fails in all these tests.
These important reforms stem from labor values and we want to make them correctly.
We listened to colleagues who support the principle of reform but worried about the impact of the rate of change on the system supported by the system.
As a result, we will make two changes to strengthen the bill.
First, we accept that the proposed changes are a source of uncertainty and anxiety.
Therefore, we will now keep all PIP areas in the current system. New conformity requirements will be applied only for new requests from November 2026.
Secondly, we will adjust the path of universal credit payment rates to ensure that the revenues of any new plaintiff who meets the criteria of all the existing buyers of the three health elements – and the criteria of serious conditions.
Colleagues rightly want to ensure that people with disabilities and those with bad health are at the center of our reforms.
We will suggest the Ministry of Social Security and Disability Minister of the Ministry [Stephen Timms]To ensure that the benefit is fair and suitable for the future.
At the center of this compilation, it will occupy people with disabilities, organizations and deputies representing them in a way to hear their opinions and voices. The review will then reports me as a job and retirement secretary.
These commitments, as well as increasing the standard ratio of universal loan, the greatest real permanent increase of any benefit since the 1980s-the preservation of the income of the most vulnerable income that will not be re-evaluated and the promotion of the “right to try”.
Our reform principles continue; To aim to finance for those who need the most and make sure that the system is sustainable for future generations to support future generations.
We believe that those who can work, what needs to be done and those who cannot.
We will highlight more of the additional funds produced by these reforms for business support for sick and disabled people.
When it is taken together, it will protect the social security system for those who need it by putting a sustainable contact, return people to work, protect those who cannot work for people in the system and reduce the anxiety.
We would like to thank our colleagues for interested in these important reforms for social security.
In this letter, Kendall does not say how much the U -turn will cost.
And he doesn’t tell the bill that took his second reading on Tuesday. Changes in the health element of the universal loan are against the bill. The text cannot be changed before Tuesday, and therefore the Labor Party MPs will have to vote for the bill on the basis of assurance that the government will rewrite large parts of the following week. These changes are not yet available.
Good morning. Like all reporting, political journalism has a weakness for the cliché and seems to have an informal rule that any use of the word U-era in Westminster should be carried out as “humiliating”. The problem is that most U -turn is only slightly embarrassing and tactically advantageous. However, this time – with an accident or design – Tories seems to use the word appropriately.
No 10 has realized an enormous U -turn on the universal loan (UC) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) invoice that will reduce the benefits of disease and disability. It was only confirmed by a letter exchange early this morning. Kiran Stacey There are details here.
Many policy decisions on welfare issues are motivated by the need to reduce costs in front of decimal years, and this was always one of the main objectives of this bill (as the Analysis of the Institute of Financial Research yesterday). The bill still serves as a long -term, cost -saving measure.
However, it is aimed to save money for the treasury during this parliament. In this respect, the draft law was more or less encouraged. This is a disaster for Rachel Reeves.
U -turn has various great consequences that we will learn more today.
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People who will need disease and disability aid in the future will lose significant amounts compared to what they can obtain if they demand benefit at the moment. Ministers will still have great difficulty in defending this. Tories accuses the government of creating a “two -layer benefit system ..
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Keir Starmer’s authority in his party was very damaged. We cannot yet say how important this will be, but since the general election, personal approval ratings have collapsed and at least it will make it difficult to recover.
Returning to the “humiliating u turn ,, that’s what the conservatives say about the movement in an early statement this morning. Helen WhatlyShadow and Pension Secretary, said:
This is another humiliating U -turn that is forced to Keir Starmer.
With the benefits of the disease, Bill was determined to reach £ 100 billion by 2030. However, labor dates back from a bad plan to the next plan.
The latest ‘agreement’ with workers’ rebels is very similar to a two -layer benefit system, which is more likely to encourage everyone in the benefits to stay there rather than entering.
Keir Starmer has made a serious offer in national interests if it is difficult to reduce the welfare bill and will be willing to hire more people – we make savings to avoid taxes. But instead, he did another U -turn.
Here is the agenda of the day.
10.05: Keir Starmer is expected to speak at the Welsh Workers Conference in Llandudno.
Morning: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit at Essex.
11.30: The Downing Street has a lobby briefing.
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