Kemi Badenoch has offered to protect the Sir Kire Stmper from its own labor backbenchers, as a large -scale rebellion threatened to bring down its welfare reforms.
In a late intervention on Tuesday evening, Tory leader stepped into saying this More than 100 Labor MPs were gearing up to reject the schemes when they are voted next week,
This defense came after PM returned Labor The rebels warned that “who care about the future welfare system” should support the law.
With Can he avoid a potential defeat, question mark about it, Sir Keir also insisted on Sky News that this “trust is not a vote”.
However, the warning has already been done by critics in labor and trade unions that it would be “shameful” to rely on Tory votes next Tuesday, so that the benefits can be obtained to get the necessary laws to pass.
MPs are ready to vote on reforms next Tuesday, which are Treasury is expected to save £ 5BN in a year in savingsBy reducing personal freedom payment (PIPS) for most disabled people.
So far, 108 labor backbenchers have signed a logical amendment to kill the bill, with the organizers of the rebellion privately accepted to surprise the number of MPs who have supported it.
12 ministers are understood to consider rebelling against the law, while 108 labor MPs have signed a new amendment that will stop the bill in its track.
To capitalize on political chaos for the government, Ms. Badenoch calculated that it would be more humiliating for the need to pass a necessary bill for the Prime Minister.
In a proposal to Sir Keir, he said: “The government is in a mess, his MPs are in an open rebellion. If Care Starrer wants our support, he needs to fulfill three conditions that are aligned with our main orthodox principles.
“The first situation is that the welfare budget is very high, it needs to come down. This bill does not do this.
“The third is that we do not want to see any new tax in autumn. We may not have new tax growth to pay for an increase in welfare and other government expenses.”
He insisted that his party was “acting in the national interest”.
But Steve Wright, General Secretary of the Fire Brigade Union, said: “It is possible that Kir starrer Tory will depend on the common votes of MPs, which are to pass this new wave of penance for the weakest people. This is a shameful thing for any labor Prime Minister.”
According to a labor source, Health Secretary Wes Streeting was described as going to “Overdrive”, trying to win on rebel backbenchers.
Another said that the government now faces an option between making another harmful U-turn, or “a beating from MPs”. If the party withdraws on reforms, the source said that, after the last reversal over the winter fuel cut, the situation of Rhel Reeves will no longer be ten.
A senior backbencher reiterated the claim that the position of the Chancellor is in danger.
“It eliminates one of the two ways: either we dismiss it [Starmer] Or he dismisses it [Reeves]The MP said.
The Chancellor is being blamed for a push for cutting welfare than the welfare work and pension secretary Liz Kendal, who has to try to win votes.
An MP said that the presence of Ms. Kendal before the Parliamentary Labor Party meeting on Monday evening, “despite some clearly friendly questions, did much less to help the cause of the government.”
Independent It turns out how some MPs have been threatened with losing whips or even Gallan if they are rebellious.
But a source said: “MPs do not care [about the threats] Because they fear that if they do not vote against it, their constituency parties will surprise them! ,
Talking to journalists on aircraft NATO In the summit Hague, Sir Keir vowed to press further with reforms. He said: “We have been elected to change everything we have broken in our country. The welfare system is broken, and that is why we will move forward with our reforms. It is very important that we do this, because the current system is not working for anyone.
“People are stuck in it, and I am not ready to allow this to happen. So we will move forward with our reforms”.
The Prime Minister also denied that he had failed to convince his MPs in the moral case for reforms.
“There is a clear moral case that the current system does not help those who want to come to work. It implicates people. I think these 1,000 people are walking on pip a day.
“Each year PIP additions are equal to the population of a city, which are of the size of the lecester. It is not a system that cannot be left uncontrolled, not at least because it is unstable, and therefore you will not have a welfare system for those who need it in the future.”
Taking a swipe in more than 100 labor rebels, he said: “Those who care about the future welfare system will have to answer this question – ‘How do you improve that you have received to ensure that it is durable for the future?’
“But it is not durable to connect the size of the lecester every year and assume that there may be a permanent future for the future, a model.”