Former Work & Pensions Secretary Lord David Blunkett has cautioned Prime Minister Starmer regarding a looming no confidence vote if his benefit cuts for disabled individuals fail. He suggests delaying the vote to seek compromise, highlighting the implications of losing it, which include political humiliation and unresolved welfare issues. Despite significant opposition from Labour MPs regarding the current proposals affecting 800,000 disabled people, Starmer is determined to push his plan through, drawing criticism for neglecting domestic issues while focusing on international matters.
If they lost it, they'd have to go for a vote of confidence, I think. But the embarrassment of that one year in leaves you with two problems. One is you've been humiliated, and the second is you've still got the problem. The welfare issue has not gone away. So, solving the problem, not taking the hit, is the sensible solution.
Keir Starmer, for very understandable reasons, has been diverted onto the international agenda. I think he now needs to come back from Holland and be absolutely focused on this.
It's so depressing to think Keir and Morgan did all that work to cleanse the party of this self-indulgent rubbish, only for it to erupt back.
We are living in a more volatile world. I think everybody in the country accepts that. We've had to rise to that challenge, and it is right that we s
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