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The British government has refused to say that it is confident that this week to win its important welfare reform vote, since a considerable number of members of rebels still threaten to kill the bill and argue that the concessions of the ministers do not go far enough.
Wes Streeting, Health Secretary, said on Sunday that the government was “in a better position” after the successor dilution However, changes to reforms of the disability of the disabilities did not listen that it was confident that it had the numbers after more than 120 Labor MPs threatened to rebel against legislation.
The government has a working majority of 165, which means that around 80 Labor MPs probably have to vote against the bill to defeat it, depending on abstentions and the assumption that the other parties are against it.
“We are in a much better position than last week,” Streeting told the BBC on Sunday morning, but admitted that it still has to be “rebuilt a lot of trust”.
The vote on Tuesday has become a key test for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer When he approaches the first anniversary of his term.
Starrer changed last week after the government was supposed to lose the vote despite its enormous majority.
The amendments to the government-to the task of not taking any disability advantages of people who have already received were viewed by Strandmer as an important U-turn, and critics said that they endanger the risk of a “two-stage” welfare system with people who are hindered at the risk of reforms.
Starrer has argued that reforms are of essential importance to prevent the welfare budget higher and higher, but the changes will reduce the savings for the government of almost 5 billion GBP to around 2 billion GBP. In combination with an earlier U-Winkel Chancellor Rachel Reeves, A £ 4.25 billion hole in your budget.
A number of rebels said they were now ready to support the bill, but dozens should withstand and many take the weekend to think about their options.
On Monday, the secretary for work and pensions will be given an explanation to the House of Commons, in which the planned changes in the government’s reforms are confirmed and the advantages of disabled help organizations are checked.
It is not possible to change the actual text of the law. Therefore, the MPs are asked to make the ministerial declaration as a promise that changes in the next reading are issued.
Paula Barker, Labor MP from Liverpool Waverre, who helped organize the rebellion against the legislation, said that it was “undeniable” that a number of opponents were convinced by the government “There are still many that are still being voted”.
“Some colleagues are waiting to hear what the minister says tomorrow,” said Barker. “The main topic is that the written declaration of the minister, which he is not at the foreground, is not at the fore and the trust in an all -time low is.”
The MP Louise Haigh, one of the leading rebels, said on Sunday that she now voted for the bill and argued that a “considerable number of concessions had been made”, said the government had to learn from the crisis.
“I think the crisis of this week was triggered by a feeling that we were not listening to … but the prime minister has accepted that another approach has to be chosen, and this is an opportunity to learn serious lessons,” Haigh told BBC.
“There were problems with both economic policy and the political strategy, which prompted so many colleagues to take this unprecedented step,” she added.
