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The welfare cuts rebellion – Politics Weekly UK

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer is vowing to push ahead with plans to cut disability payments. But with more than 100 Labour MPs threatening to rebel, could he be forced into another U-turn? Kiran Stacey asks Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey and the Guardian’s Heather Stewart. Plus, in the age of Trump, does the UK still matter on the world stage? Labour peer and former EU chief diplomat Catherine Ashton joins Kiran to discuss the conflict in the Middle East and how much influence Britain really has. -- Get tickets to the Politics Weekly live event here: crossedwires.live/podcast/guardian-politics-weekly. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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It's been less than a year since Labour's landslide election victory, and yet here we are,

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with the government facing defeat on one of its major policies, five billion pounds worth

1:27.0

of cuts to disability benefits.

1:29.2

The options are leave the system as it is, trapping people and not helping them.

1:35.1

That's not a labour option.

1:36.8

The labour option is to reform it and make it safe for the future.

1:39.2

The government says their plans will stop spiraling costs, but over 120 Labour MPs are now

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