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Starmer dealing with rising backbench rise up over deliberate incapacity profit cuts | Politics Information

Editorial Board Published May 7, 2025
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Starmer dealing with rising backbench rise up over deliberate incapacity profit cuts | Politics Information
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A senior Labour MP has mentioned the federal government must take “corrective action” over deliberate incapacity cuts – as Sir Keir Starmer faces a rising backbench rise up.

Tan Dhesi, chair of the influential Commons defence committee, informed the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge the “disappointing” native election outcomes present the federal government should hear and study, significantly over welfare reforms.

The federal government has proposed tightening the eligibility necessities for the private unbiased fee, referred to as PIP.

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A claimant should rating a minimal of 4 factors on one PIP day by day residing exercise, similar to making ready meals, washing and bathing, utilizing the bathroom or studying, to obtain the day by day residing component of the profit.

Mr Dhesi, the MP for Slough, mentioned “corrective action” must be taken however insisted if the federal government modified tact, it will not be a U-turn as the incapacity cuts have been solely proposals.

Picture:Tan Dhesi spoke to Sky’s Sophy Ridge

“A government which is in listening mode should be looking at what the electorate is saying,” he mentioned.

“And we have to be sure that it’s our ethical obligation, duty, to take care of probably the most susceptible inside our group, whether or not that’s in Slough, whether or not that’s elsewhere throughout the nation.

“So, I hope that the government will be taking on board that feedback and many of us as MPs are giving that feedback in various meetings happening here in Westminster and then we need to take corrective action.”

Alex Davies-Jones said the government is just consulting on cutting benefitsPicture:Alex Davies-Jones mentioned the federal government was in search of to ‘protect the vulnerable’

Minister Alex Davies-Jones informed the Politics Hub a Labour authorities “will always seek to protect the most vulnerable” and it needs to “listen to people who have got real lived experience”.

She added she has the “utmost respect for Tan, he’s a great constituency MP and he’s doing exactly what he should be doing, is representing his constituency”.

Sir Keir is dealing with a rise up from Labour MPs, with about 40 within the Pink Wall – Labour’s conventional heartlands within the north of England – reposting a press release on social media during which they mentioned the management’s response to the native elections had “fallen on deaf ears”.

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A number of backbench Labour MPs additionally spoke out towards the plans throughout a debate on PIP and disabled folks in parliament on Wednesday.

Ian Byrne, MP for Liverpool West Derby, mentioned he would “swim through vomit to vote against” the proposed modifications and mentioned: “This is not what the Labour Party was formed to do.”

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill, mentioned she feared tightening PIP eligibility would trigger deaths, including: “Lest we forget that study that attributed 330,000 excess deaths in Britain between 2012 and 2019 to the last round of austerity cuts [under the Conservative government].”

Diane Abbott, the longest-serving feminine MP, accused the federal government of placing ahead “contradictory arguments”.

“On the one hand, they insist they are helping the disabled by putting them back to work,” she mentioned.

“But on the other hand, they say this cut will save £9bn. Well, you can’t do both.”

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‘I’ll wrestle if I lose incapacity help’

Nevertheless, fellow Labour MP David Pinto-Duschinsky, mentioned MPs can not “ignore this issue” of health-related profit claimant figures rising at “twice the rate of underlying health conditions”.

Responding for the federal government, social safety minister Sir Stephen Timms mentioned PIP claims have been set to “more than double, from two million to over 4.3 million this decade”.

“It would certainly not be in the interests of people currently claiming the benefits for the government to bury its head in the sand over that rate of increase,” he added.

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