Welfare U-Turn ‘Inevitable’ as Burnham Joins Mass Labour Rebellion – Guido Fawkes

Welfare U-Turn ‘Inevitable’ as Burnham Joins Mass Labour Rebellion

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King of the North Andy Burnham has joined the revolt against Starmer’s doomed welfare bill. Cabinet ministers now say in private that the reforms as currently set out are dead…

Burnham told Newsnight last night: “When the PLP delivers its collective wisdom in such numbers it is invariably right. And it is right on this. And I would say to the government, listen to the PLP.” When the herd moves, it moves…

Burnham, who makes a hobby of attacking Starmer and Reeves’ policy choices, said this wasn’t about attacking the government:

“If I look back, if the government that I was in had listened to the PLP it would have been a better government, because it would have made better decisions. And I think this is a case in point here. It’s not about doing something just to get on at the government. Not at all. We all want the government to succeed. But the government needs, I think, to take a more unifying path. And on this issue, it should pause, it should get back around the table.”

Senior government figures are resigned to that necessity now. The whipping operation made things worse…