Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce great concessions on his controversial welfare reforms As the concerns grow that the Government will have to raise a tax on the payment of a dramatic climb.
After the day Crisis talks with rebel work agents, Independent understands that the prime minister offered water to descend with their reform package, including protection Payments of personal independence (PIP) for all existing applicants, which means only new applicants susceptible to firmer rules.
Concessions could shave up to 2 billion pounds of planned savings of $ 5 billion from the universal payment account in universal loans and personal independence and follows Downing Street Refusal to turn off taxes increase for any changes.
At least 126 working agents have signed an amendment that would effectively kill a reduction in welfare, accumulating pressure on the Prime Minister who came in the middle of fear of child damage in the second reading of the law next week.
Indicates the main turn of the Prime Minister, which will now hope that expensive concessions will lead to an agreement with representatives and hunger rebellion within your party.
However, the government could now face a new headache after the most important reforms have deleted Rachel Reeves’s financial space, which means that it will join the tax growth or reduction of consumption elsewhere.
Asked whether the government accepts to be forced to attend taxes in early Thursday, the Prime Minister of the Official Spokesperson “says that the ministers wanted to receive the Chancellor” in the future “in the future”.
Independent Understands that the concessions offered, Mr. Keir on well-being reforms are mostly focused on changes to the eligibility for PIP, the main benefit for persons against disabilities currently claims 3.7 million people.
The existing applicants should be given a 13-week financial support, a move, which was seen as an attempt for the opposition to soften the impact of changes, before the revolt was broke out.
But Mr. Keir seems to be missing and offers to apply the rules only to new applicants. This would protect about 370,000 existing applicants expected to lose after re-examination.
Guardian It reports that the Prime Minister also agreed to expand and adopt a package of employment support measures, while secretary for social protection Liz Kendall would launch consulting of disability burdens, which could bring further changes to the account.
Mr. Keir insisted on the need for reforms on Thursday, the Applicants “failed every day” “broken system”, but recognized labor representatives want to see “reform conducted with the work values of the honesty”.
Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir was in the “struggle of his life”, after the former Cabinet Minister David Blancett warned that, if his social plans were rejected, confronted the vote of trust.
The rebellion is coming at the time of growing representatives more critical of the Prime Minister in Commons, and with him, he would be less in his first year than any of his predecessors in the chamber to participate in difficult votes.
Representative Rachael MaskellEarlier is a member of the Commons Committee on Health and Social Protection Independent The government would have to agree to a multitude of changes if they should win support.
She said, “[Ministers would need to] … agree with the disabled people, they should end up reducing the right system, and they should not be susceptible to universal credit, because they still leave disabilities with disabilities, because they have significantly higher costs. Scope [charity] This estimated that he was more than £ 1,000 per month. “
Another representative of the work said that the only solution that the government could offer was to completely extract the account in full and warn that MPs are unlikely.
“I won’t support anything that puts disability people in difficulty,” they said. “The government simply didn’t listen. It shouldn’t have to get this far and the fact that it’s just pretty ears.
“No 10 sees representatives like irritants and forage food. We work out of there … We all work hard and thus treat us. It becomes exactly in progress they are arrogant and out of touch.”
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)) has warned that not to bring Rachel Reeves reforms to collect taxes or breaking other consumption to meet self-adjusting borrowing rules.
The older economist Ben Caswell said, “More considered politics could help reduce political Churn and associated economic costs, especially when consumers and business trust have already been a little.”
But during the speech on Thursday, Ms. Badenoch suggested that Tories would go even more than working, promising to reduce 9 billion pounds.
Reacting on the concessions offered by Sir Keir, the shadow of Chancellor Mel Hide said, “This is the latest on the growing screenshot on this weak government.
“Under pressure from his own MPs, Starmer made another completely unfinanced consumption commitment.”
Downing Street is contacted on comment.