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Sir Keira Starmer’s government made only minor concessions on its controversial well -being bill when it is preparing to face the biggest uprising of its prime minister next month.
Labor Deputies who participate in the rebel organization before the vote for the crunching on the reforms of the well -being, outlined in Parliament on Wednesday, said that more than 160 disagree with the proposals, and about 70 now say they will oppose this measure in the House of Commons.
One added that there will probably be deputies who leave the role as private secretaries of parliament – unpaid assistants to ministers – if asked to vote on some reforms in early July.
The Prime Minister of the UK has already announced that there is retreating from his deeply unpopular solution To deprive winter payments of the fuel of about 10 million shields, and signaled that he seeks to disrupt the restriction of aid for two children, which is a significant participant in the poverty of children.
Some high -ranking government officials believe that these steps have gone far enough to accommodate some future rebels, although many deputies are not convinced.
“I view these things as completely individual,” said one MP, who said he plans to vote against the bill in his current form, adding: ‘
The Labor Party had the liquidation of senior figures on the occasion of the decision to overcome the intersection of the well -being in the framework of the savings at the expense of the Treasury, and many claim that this has strengthened anger among the deputies. Some believe they had to be presented as an effort to fix a poor functional system and make more people work.
The government estimates that the reforms of both disability and disability will save the treasury about £ 4.8 billion. Reforms will mean that about 800,000 people are less entitled to help help, including for those who need a sink or soul, and is expected to come into force in November 2026.
Seeking to reassure some rebels, the government stated that it offers a 13-week transition period when the estimated people are no longer eligible for personal payment of independence (PIP).
About 200,000 people who are considered to be the most difficult and constantly disabled will also be released from the fact that their payments are refurbished, the government said.
Another rebel deputy said “it doesn’t matter whether you are taking money from people at the first or week, 13, I will still vote.”
The deputy added that this week, the whip approached her asking to refrain that she had refused. “I admit the need for some reform, but it is unacceptable,” she said.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reiner sought to submit the proposed reforms as a central labor agenda, not her antithesis, saying that “work is a party of labor, justice and social justice.”
Reiner refused to say whether the whip would be removed from the deputies who voted against the government.
Even after the proposed reforms, the total number of people’s working age by the help of disability will increase by 750,000. It is expected that the cost of this support will increase from £ 23 billion to 2024-25 to 31 billion.
