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The Labour government is facing its biggest crisis yet as over 120 MPs rebel against controversial welfare cuts that could strip benefits from hundreds of thousands of disabled people. This welfare reform bill threatens to become a defining moment for Keir Starmer's leadership, with rebels using modern tactics to organise unprecedented opposition to their own government's policies.
The proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit could see 800,000 people lose vital support, with average losses of £4,500 per year. Despite having a massive 165-seat majority, the government might actually lose this crucial vote unless Conservative MPs help them pass their own welfare cuts. Multiple embarrassing U-turns and last-minute concessions have failed to stop the rebellion, which includes select committee chairs and backbench MPs who feel completely ignored in the policy-making process.
This political crisis exposes deep divisions within Labour about whether these cuts represent a return to austerity policies that many MPs joined the party to oppose. The government has threatened to remove the whip from rebels and even suggested deselection for those who vote against the welfare bill. With disability charities warning that nearly half a million people could be forced into severe hardship and towards food banks, this vote represents a fundamental test of Labour's values and Starmer's ability to govern effectively with such a large parliamentary majority.