{"id":83416,"date":"2025-06-25T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83416"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:11:19","slug":"keir-starmer-is-in-a-spot-of-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/25\/keir-starmer-is-in-a-spot-of-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer is in a spot of bother"},"content":{"rendered":"

To suggest that Keir Starmer is in a spot of bother with his Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.<\/a><\/p>\n

This lot have, so far, opposed his Bill<\/a> by tabling an amendment that effectively kills it. They are Labour MPs, and each and every one of them risks losing the Whip, and so their chance of reselection as the Labour candidate at the next general election (which they are going to lose anyway based on current progress), by doing so:<\/p>\n

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Their amendment, which is, I think, bound to be called by the Speaker, because it is the one with by far the largest number of supporters, says (and I have added bullet points to make it more readable than the form in which parliament demands it be written):<\/p>\n

That this House, whilst noting the need for the reform of the social security system, and agreeing with the Government\u2019s principles for providing support to people into work and protecting people who cannot work, declines to give a Second Reading to the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill:<\/p>\n