Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has confirmed the government’s concessions on the welfare bill will cost the taxpayer £2.5 billion by 2030. The total welfare bill is meant to swell to an astronomical £100 billion by then, but bloodthirsty backbenchers have already halved a measly £5 billion saving – and at least 50 are still unhappy with the retreat. Kendall told the Commons “reforming welfare isn’t easy“. It looks more like it’s virtually impossible…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”