“What an absolute bloody shambles!”When we tell you that this is the unvarnished view of a Labour MP now willing to back Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s benefits plans, you get a sense of how much anger this row has provoked and is still provoking.And there are still plenty who are not happy and still either pushing for further changes or planning to vote against the measures.”It is not the resolution lots of people want. They are tinkering with a broken bill,” another MP tells us.After backbench Labour MPs revolted against the government’s proposed welfare reforms, the prime minister made concessions, saying the stricter criteria would only apply to new claimants.”Clearly some at least will have been pacified by the concessions but there are still very significant numbers” of opponents, a third MP texts, adding “it shouldn’t be underestimated the potential effect of a weekend of emails from constituents, constituency surgeries etc”. Debbie Abrahams, the Labour MP who chairs the Work and Pensions Select Committee, told the BBC: “The concessions are a good start, they are very good concessions and they will protect existing claimants. “However there are still concerns about new claimants. It would not be right for me not to do anything just to spare the prime minister an inconvenience.” In other words, she does not appear won over yet.Some note that Disability Labour, which describes itself as “an independent socialist society affiliated to the UK Labour P …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nn”What an absolute bloody shambles!”When we tell you that this is the unvarnished view of a Labour MP now willing to back Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s benefits plans, you get a sense of how much anger this row has provoked and is still provoking.And there are still plenty who are not happy and still either pushing for further changes or planning to vote against the measures.”It is not the resolution lots of people want. They are tinkering with a broken bill,” another MP tells us.After backbench Labour MPs revolted against the government’s proposed welfare reforms, the prime minister made concessions, saying the stricter criteria would only apply to new claimants.”Clearly some at least will have been pacified by the concessions but there are still very significant numbers” of opponents, a third MP texts, adding “it shouldn’t be underestimated the potential effect of a weekend of emails from constituents, constituency surgeries etc”. Debbie Abrahams, the Labour MP who chairs the Work and Pensions Select Committee, told the BBC: “The concessions are a good start, they are very good concessions and they will protect existing claimants. “However there are still concerns about new claimants. It would not be right for me not to do anything just to spare the prime minister an inconvenience.” In other words, she does not appear won over yet.Some note that Disability Labour, which describes itself as “an independent socialist society affiliated to the UK Labour P …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
