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Keir Starmer Could Face Revolt Over Benefit Cuts

Novara Live

Novara Media

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Discontent is growing among Labour MPs over what could be the biggest cuts to disability payments since the coalition government.

Plus: 29 councillors defect to reform; and US airstrikes on Yemen kill 29 people.

With Steven Methven, NoJusticeMTG & Anna Landre.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters.

0:11.6

To become one, go to navaramedia.com forward slash support.

0:17.6

Good evening and welcome to Navaralive.

0:20.1

My name's Stephen Methan. And tonight I am joined by Helena, aka No Justice MTG.

0:26.8

Helena, how are you? How is your weekend?

0:29.2

I actually had a great weekend. Spent all day out yesterday playing match at the gathering, as my name would suggest.

0:33.5

And honestly, good to be here on a surprise Monday appearance of both of us and looking forward to the show.

0:38.2

Yeah, me too. I also had a very good weekend. I went to the birthday party of our beloved and much-missed Moira Lothian McLean.

0:44.9

And a sign of how good it was, I didn't get out of bed until it was dark the next day.

0:50.1

Coming up tonight, we're here from Disability Rights campaigner Anna Landre on Starmer's welfare reforms,

0:56.8

or cuts actually.

0:58.4

Dozens of local councillors have defected to reform UK.

1:02.5

US airstrikes have killed 53 people in Yemen.

1:05.6

And new data shows that bi-to-let landlordism is booming in the UK.

1:10.1

Surprise, surprise. Let's go to our first

1:12.9

story Kirstarmer's Labour government is going full Tory with work and pension

1:17.3

secretary Liz Kendall scheduled to announce what are being briefed as the biggest

1:21.0

cuts to disability payments since the austerity government tomorrow we don't know

1:25.8

where exactly these cuts will fall yet, but we do know

1:28.4

that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is desperate to find savings after a faltering economy has left

1:32.8

her short of cash ahead of next week's spring statement. But that's not how the government is

1:38.1

framing it. This was Health Secretary West Streeting, talking to Trevor Phillips on Sunday.

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