Sir Kir Stamor He has admitted that his focus was on matters related to NATO and Middle East Rebellion Welfare deduction caught his party at home.
Prime Minister Has faced rising backbenth rebellion Proposed disability profit deductionThere are some 126 labor backbenchers Signed an amendment He will stop Universal loan And the Personal Freedom Payment Bill in its track when on 1 July faces its first Commons obstruction.
Responding to questions about what went wrong during the difficulty week, Sir Kir claimed full responsibility for the welfare U-turn.
“All these decisions are my decisions and I owe them,” he told that The Sunday Times“My rule of leadership is, when things go well, you get a plaque; when things do not go well, you take Cain. I take responsibility for all the decisions made by this government. I don’t talk about employees and if not everyone does not do it, I will like it.”
He continued that this was due to his heavy concentration on foreign affairs rather than domestic affairs, first in the G7 meeting in Canada and then a NATO summit in the Netherlands. He also had to deal with the US strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
“I am putting it as a reference rather than shedding: I was focusing a lot on what was happening with NATO and Middle East,” he said. “I changed my attention completely [the welfare bill] When I returned from NATO on Wednesday night. Obviously, during the early part of this week we were busy trying to ensure that NATO was a success. ,
He said: “From the moment I came back from G7, I went straight to a cobra meeting. My whole focus was actually falling down on it on Thursday. At that time we were able to move forward quickly.”
The original package of the government banned PIP eligibility, main disability payments in England, and by 2030, £ 5BN cut £ 5BN in a bid to cut the health related element in the health of universal credit in a bid.
The government has offered a series of concessions in an attempt to shut down the Prime Minister’s first major Commons defeat since the Labor Rebels came to power, because the dissatisfaction bubbles between the nearby backbenchers Welfare deductionBut the campaigners have warned that these concessions can cause problems
Instead, PIP eligibility changes will be implemented in November 2026, applying only to new contenders, while the existing recipients of the health elements of the Universal Credit will be real their income.
While lead ribel dame Hill me Has accepted the Prime Minister £ 1.5BN U-turn as “positive results”Sir Kir has been warned that his decision to save the existing benefits from the upcoming welfare deduction will create only one “generational division” as hundreds of charitable and campaigners urged MPs to continue their opposition to the proposed cuts.
Disability donation lapped up Warned that change will create a generational division in quality of life for people with learning disabilities “.
Think tank Resolution Foundation warned earlier this week Prime Minister U turn Profit cut And Winter fuel payment Has blown £ 4.5bn hole in public finance Tax increase in autumn budget will be filled with “very probability”.
