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Starmer is expected to announce £ 2bn welfare concessions

Starmer is expected to announce £ 2bn welfare concessions

Sir ker stormer Hope to declare major concessions on it Controversial welfare deduction As the concerns increase, the government will need to increase taxes to pay for dramatic climb.

After a day Crisis talks with rebel labor MPs, Independent The Prime Minister understands that the Prime Minister has agreed to give water to the package of his reforms, including protecting PIP payments for all existing contenders, meaning that only new contenders will be subject to difficult rules.

Concessions can shave from £ 5BN price of saving from the bill to £ 2BN, and follow Downing Street Tax refuses to increase for any change.

More than 120 Labor MPs signed an amendment, which would effectively kill the welfare cuts, pressure to put pressure on the Prime Minister to pressure his bill to be defeated in his second reading next week.

Asked if the government admits if it reduces the law on Thursday, it would be forced to increase taxes, the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson said the ministers wanted to get “correct” changes, saying that the Chancellor will “decide in future”.

Kir starrer in Commons on Thursday ,House of Commons,

Top economists as row have warned that the financial headroom of REWS will be erased in this autumn before its budget by failing to pass reforms, meaning that the difference will require tax growth or deduction to spend the difference elsewhere.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Kir was in “Battle of his life”, former Labor Cabinet Minister David Blaunket warned that if his welfare schemes were rejected, Sir Kir would have to face confidence vote.

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With more stress running, there were reports of MPs after discussion with advisors from 10 10.

Sir Keir on Thursday emphasized the need for reforms, the warning advantage claimants were thwarted by “broken system”, but admitted that Labor MPs wanted to see “implemented reforms implemented with labor values ​​of fairness”.

However, the rebels told Independent Any concession will have to be widespread if they had to be accepted.

Currently, eligibility has been banned for the schemes to be voted on this Tuesday. Individual freedom payment (PIP), limit the main disability payments in England, and the element related to the disease of the Universal Credit (UC). The government hopes that the changes will be returned to more people and will be saved up to £ 5BN in a year.

Existing contenders will be given a 13-week-out period of financial assistance, a step that was seen as a protest by softening the impact of changes, before the rebellion of this week, before the rebellion of this week.

The rebellion comes at a time when Labor MPs are becoming increasingly important for the presence of the Prime Minister in Commons, with him in his first year compared to his predecessors up to Sir Tony Blair – while forcing his backbenchers to participate in difficult votes in the commons.

Labor MP Rachel maskellEarlier a member of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee told Independent The government will have to agree to many changes if they win support.

He said: “[Ministers would need to] … agrees with a consultation with people with disabilities, they will first need to cut the PIP without replacing it with a fair system and will not need to cut them in universal credit, as it still leaves the disabled people worse, as they have the cost of living. scope [charity] Has evaluated more than £ 1,000 in a month. ,

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Another Labor MP said that the only solution that the government could give was to pull the bill into its entirety and warned that the MPs were unlikely to accept very little.

“I am not going to support anything that will make people with disabilities difficult,” he said. “The government is not listening yet. It did not need to remove this and the fact that it is just a very tin-earn to be honest.

“Some sees 10 MPs as irritable and fodder. The disrespect coming from there … we are all working hard and how they treat us. It goes back to this point how arrogant and touch they are out of touch.”

Another Labor MP stated that some parts of the schemes were “unacceptable” and people were called for “earlier investment” to get away from mental health professionals or UC and to reach work, before the cut.

Meanwhile, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Think Tank warned that without passing the reforms, Chancellor Rachel Reves would be forced to increase taxes or forced to cut other expenses to meet their self-looked borrowed rules.

Senior economist Ben Casswell said: “More considered policy can help reduce political churning and related economic costs, especially when consumer and commercial beliefs are already low.”

But Scottish labor leader Anas Sarwar was optimistic that the welfare bill would look different from Tuesday’s vote, as one -third of the Scottish Labor MPs are supporting rebellious amendments.

Mr. Sarwar told Holyrud source Podcast: “The bill is not going to look the same … Valid concerns must be addressed. We have to support the principle of reform.”

Cammy Badenoch at a policy exchange event on Thursday

Cammy Badenoch at a policy exchange event on Thursday ,Country,

But during a speech on Thursday, Ms. Badenoch suggested that Toryse would go beyond the labor, who promise to slash £ 9BN from the welfare bill.

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He said for a “fundamental reconsideration, which conditions should qualify for long -term financial assistance” saying that “really serious conditions” focus on people would allow the government to save money.

“This is where we should focus on our efforts,” he said. “I know it will not be easy. In fact, things are likely to be better, before they are better.”

Earlier on Thursday, Business Minister Douglas Alexander It was claimed that the two ministers and rebels agree that “welfare reform is required and this system is broken” and that disagreement “was more than the implementation of those principles”.

Asked about concessions, Angela Rener, The Deputy Prime Minister demanded assurance of backbenchers that they would not be expected to cheat the traditional values ​​of the labor.

In an ITV interview, he said, “I have not changed my labor values ​​and we are not expecting our benches to do anything that is not under investigation with them.” plague Program.

“What we want to do is the support of the people, and it is an important bit around the reforms that are trying to achieve labor, and we are discussing with our MPs.”

Downing Street has been contacted for comment.

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