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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Peter Walker

Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer

Liz Kendall leaving 10 Downing Street holding her portfolio
DWP forecasts say the planned disability benefit cuts would affect 700,000 families already in poverty. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

More than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction.

The letter from parliamentarians spanning the new intake and veterans, and from the left and right of the party, sets Keir Starmer up for the biggest rebellion of his premiership when the House of Commons votes on the measures next month.

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