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Sir Keir Starer’s government has made only minor concessions to her controversial welfare bill because he is preparing to face the probably largest Backbench rebellion of his prime minister next month.
Work MPs involved in the organization of rebels before a crunch vote on the social reforms that were presented on Wednesday in parliament do not agree with the proposals.
One added that there were probably MPs who resigned from their roles as parliamentary private secretary – unpaid assistants for ministers – when they coordinate some of the reforms in early July.
The British Prime Minister has already announced that he is Withdrawal from his deeply unpopular decision To touch on winter fuel payments of around 10 million pensioners, and signals that he wants to scrap the two-child beefic cap, which makes a significant contribution to child poverty.
Some high -ranking government officials believe that these steps have taken far enough to calm some potential rebels, although many MPs are not convinced.
“I consider these things to be completely separate,” said a MP who said that he was planning to vote against the bill in his current form, and added: “I remain very, very concerned about what is on the table and what effects it will have on my voters.”
In the Labor Party, accusations of high -ranking figures were made about the decision to design comprehensive cuts in the welfare system as part of a cost -saving exercise for the Ministry of Finance. Some believe that they should have been presented as an effort to fix a poorly functioning system and bring more people to work.
According to the government estimates, reforms to both the disability and the incapacity benefits are likely to save around 4.8 billion GBP according to the government estimates. The reforms will mean that around 800,000 people are less entitled to disabilities, including some that need help with washing or showing, and are expected to come into force in November 2026.
In order to appease some rebels, the government is announced to offer a transition period of 13 weeks in which the people who have been assessed are no longer claimed for personal independence payments (PIP).
Around 200,000 people who are considered the most serious and permanently disabled conditions are also freed from the re -evaluation of their advantages, the government said.
Another member of Rebellen said that it was “irrelevant whether they will take away money from people in week one or in week, I will still be right”.
The MP added that a whip turned to her this week and asked her to contain what she rejected. “I recognize the need for a reform, but that’s unacceptable,” she said.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner tried to present the proposed reforms as more central than their work agenda and not their opposite, and said on Wednesday that “work is the party of work, fairness and social justice”.
Rayner refused to say whether the whip would be removed by MPs who voted against the government.
Even after the proposed reforms, it is expected that the total number of people in the work age in relation to disability advantages will increase by 750,000 by the end of this parliament. According to the government of 23 billion GBP, the expenditure for this support will increase in 2024-25 to 31 billion GBP in 2029-30.
