Keir Starmer defends planned welfare cuts to anxious Labour MPs

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Sir Keir Starmer has told the work deputies that the right to the welfare bill from billions of pounds, due to warnings, which reductions can be a big threat after becoming prime minister.

Labor officials say that the government wants to reduce some 5 billion pounds of payment (PIP), as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is trying to leave the public finance hole and work more people.

The Prime Minister told a packaged meeting of the deputies on Monday that the Welfare System with the wrong stimulus created a “wasted generation” and one or eight young people in education, employment or training.

“I am not afraid of making big decisions,” said the stagnant, warning that the taxpayer would spend 70 billion pounds for labor and disability benefits a year without operation.

It is envisaged that the ministers will publish green paper for reforms next week. The Starde Party is already relieved of the proposed reductions when she met with the work deputies and peers to protect the strategy.

One deputy of the work said:

The workforce figures confirmed that the ministers planned 5 billion pounds, which is planned to live with long-term health or disability. ITV News first reported the plans.

Luiza Murphi, the senior economist of the resolution Foundation, said that the current value of the resolution, which claims 3.6 ml in England and Wales, is about 25 billion pounds.

If the government strives to save a year of $ 5 billion pounds to 2029-30, imposing tougher jurisdiction tests for new plaintiffs, which will mean that they are currently qualified, Murphy said.

The ministers believe that the Pip system has never intended to pay for many people on mental health. Murphy says they make up about 40 percent of the new requirements.

Savings can also be made to contribute to the benefits, so it is only paid for people, which also benefits health benefits.

Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson said that next year other proposed pipe payments so that they did not rise with inflation, but it could save more 1 billion pounds.

Welfare experts say that the relative generosity of health benefits is a silent confession that it is impossible to live long-term living in the main rate of the universal loan.

But large Reductions for welfare costs They have become inevitable due to the departments coming out of the top of its spring statement on March 26 Spend more about defenseA number

Before the sitting of the parliamentary Labor Party on Monday, former Shadow Minister Ra’hale Maskell said that the planned reductions were created among his partner deputies in his partner deputies.

One deputy said: “Some people feel very sensible and the usual suspects are not. Many people find it very difficult to cut off the stomachs that go out to the welfare bill that goes out in Lights. “

One minister confirmed that the balance was resolved to reduce the welfare of multiple employment deputies, but many fires their fire until they saw the final reform package.

The Minister added. “Many people think that this is to do. The link is named. We are a party party. “

About 35 working deputies have been supported by a new “Get Britain Worker” group that claimed that the current well-being system “often acts to find a job.”

The expansion of disability benefits for reeves has become necessary. Succer growth and high loan costs are expected to endanger the 9.9 billion pounds of the room, which he had against his self-bruuted fiscal rules, which requires him to have a budget present at 2029-30.

While Reeves announces that he does not want to raise taxes in the spring statement, some analysts expect that he will receive a tax on the tax on this year. One option will be extended Freezes personal tax thresholds Two more years, at 2029-30, collecting 10 billion pounds.