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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Caitlin Doherty

Government plan to keep Pip payouts for 13 weeks ‘not very much’, says MP

Patient in a wheelchair (David Jones/PA) - (PA Archive)

A Labour MP has described the Government’s plans to avert a rebellion on welfare cuts as “not very much really”.

Dr Simon Opher, a GP and the MP for Stroud, told the BBC he is “going to rebel” in a vote and “a number of colleagues are in the same situation”.

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