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Around 39 Labor MPs have signaled that they will vote against Sir Keir Starrer’s welfare reforms on Tuesday evening, in a tense showdown between the Prime Minister and his baking tanks despite a U-turn of 2.5 billion GBP, which diluted the package last week.
Starrer Concept of last Thursdays led to the withdrawal of a “justified amendment” that is supposed to kill the Welfare Act – which had the support of 126 Labor MPs.
On Monday evening, however, Labor MP submitted a second incumbent change with the same intent, which quickly received 39 signatures from Labor MPs and a handful of members of other parties.
This second change was selected by the house spokesman for coordination on Tuesday.
The original reform package, which contain the balloon welfare bill and at the same time encouraged people to work, was expected to save 4.8 billion GBP for taxpayers, but this number is now closer to 2 billion GBP after the last week.
The reforms will make it difficult for new applicants to receive personal independence payments (PIP), the main type of disability, but the concessions of stronger means that the changes do not affect the existing beneficiaries.
Opening of the long debate about the law on Tuesday said Liz Kendall, Secretary of the Department of Labor and Pensions, that the current welfare system is not sustainable “if we want a welfare state that protects people if they need our help for the coming years the most”.
“We believe that the protection of existing applicants is also ensured that new PIP awards are geared towards those with higher needs in the correct balances,” she said.
Rachael Maskell, a member of York Central, said her change was submitted in the name of the organizations of deaf and disabilities and “gave them a voice in this debate because their agency was not heard”. She said: “Even loyal MPs who would vote for the government’s reforms remember to contain.”
Around 83 Labor MPs would have to rebel to defeat the legislative template if all other parties are correct, since the government’s government is the majority of 165 years.
The ministers still expect the largest rebellion of Starrer Premiership, which the 16, which were against the planning and infrastructure law at the beginning of this month, in the shade.
According to Philip Cowley, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University, Tony Blair’s biggest uprising in his first year included 47 Backbenchers.
Economic Minister Jonathan Reynolds defended the draft law on Tuesday and said that it was better “than what we currently have”.
“At the moment we spend a lot of money on results that are simply not very good,” he told the BBC.
Official estimates on Monday showed that the revised measures will still be Push 150,000 people in poverty By restricting access to disabilities for new applicants.
The talks between the government’s whip and the Labor MPs last, although further concessions before the voice on Tuesday – expected at 7 p.m. – were unlikely, as were reported in the discussions.
Despite the government’s concessions, the proposals of Labor-Backbenchen were strongly criticized, which fear creating a “two-stage” system with better support for existing applicants.
A member of a member who is still planning to vote against the bill said: “I can never remember a legislative template that is so controversial and had so little examination.”
The person added that there were a number of people who had not signed any changes, but would still vote against the government.
Many Labor MPs held the original package of welfare reforms with Chancellor Rachel Reeves and argued that they had pushed too much for 5 billion GBP without ensuring that the changes were well attacked.
The opposition leader Kemi Badenoch said on Tuesday in the chamber that “this is a rushed attempt to close the Chancellor’s financial hole. He is not of principle, but of panic” and added that “someone in the 11 Downing Street made a mistake”.
Debbie Abraham, a high -ranking member of the Labor, said ITV that she would “think again” before the vote. “We absolutely recognize that these are good concessions, but we’re not quite there yet,” she said.
