Starmer Faces Labour MPs Amid Brewing Disquiet over Benefits Cuts

Starmer tells welfare rebels that benefits crackdown is 'Labour cause'

The Times SIR Keir Starmer told his welfare rebels last night that cracking down on benefits was a “Labour cause”. At a tense meeting of MPs, the PM acknowledged they faced a “tough decision” to back his squeeze but warned he was not backing down. GettyMPs have signed a secret letter expressing their fury at the PM’s cuts to disability benefits[/caption] He is currently battling a revolt of up to 170 Labour MPs, who have signed a secret letter e…

Starmer faces his unhappy backbenchers

Monday’s meeting could have gone very differently for Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister, flanked by the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, was met with rapturous applause as he entered the stuffy committee room where more than 200 Labour MPs awaited him. This rousing welcome is pretty standard for a prime minister (particularly for one only nine months into the job). Privately, however, the party’s backbenches are, as one MP put it to me “almost univ…

Starmer faces Labour MPs amid brewing disquiet over benefits cuts

The Prime Minister is said to have ‘acknowledged that MPs were having to face incredibly tough decisions’ as he met backbenchers.

Keir Starmer defends huge welfare plan as he faces major Labour revolt

The Prime Minister is facing the prospect of up to 170 of his MPs refusing to back plans to make it harder to claim disability benefits

No to austerity! Build for 7 June! Revolution against the billionaires! - The Communist

Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Messenger Email Print On 7 June, tens – possibly hundreds – of thousands will descend on the streets of central London to demand an end to austerity. Organised by the People’s Assembly, and rallying behind the slogan of ‘welfare not warfare’, this will be the first mass protest against Starmer’s austerity agenda. This demo could not be more pressing. Next month, MPs are set to vote on the government’s cuts to dis…

Sir Keir Starmer tells welfare rebels that benefits crackdown is...

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