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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Lynch

Rachel Reeves insists welfare system needs reform amid disquiet on benefit cuts

Rachel Reeves said MPs ‘know that the system needs reform’ after Labour backbenchers wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to pause planned cuts to disability benefits (Chris Jackson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Labour MPs must realise the welfare system needs reform, Rachel Reeves has said, after more than 40 MPs wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to pause and reassess planned cuts to disability benefits.

Some 42 backbenchers said the planned cuts were “impossible to support” in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, and represented “the biggest attack on the welfare state since George Osborne ushered in the years of austerity”.

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