MPS Labor Party presses Care Starmer to rethink discounts after local elections

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Sir Kerr Starmer faces new pressure from his business deputies to the opposite of the discounts to winter fuel allowance after the government’s social welfare decisions were partially blaming in the local elections on Thursday.

Representatives and party numbers said that removing winter fuel support from 10 million retirees was a major reason that the active voters told the workers that they would not support the party in the period before the elections last week.

This policy, which limits up to 300 pounds per year, was announced for the poorest retirees, just weeks after the Labor Party took power last year.

The representatives of the Labor Party and the party’s numbers said this step, along with a more modern decision to cut the advantages of the deficit, contributed to the party’s loss in some of its traditional lands to the United Kingdom in Nigel Varage.

Some of the private sector expected that Starmer would be forced to enter the winter fuel cuts before the end of the year.

One of the moderate workers’ deputy said that the party won the “cost of the living elections” last July, but then failed to improve the situation for the cost of people’s livelihood, while it increases actively for the elderly and the disabled.

He said, referring to personal independence payments, “It cannot be said that we cannot associate with endless millions of millions that the government can find to accommodate young people who pray on boats every day.

He added: “The re -changing winter fuel and reviewing PIP is the minimum that must be done if we want to prevent repair from wiping.”

Another member of the Labor Party, who is seen as a supporter of Starmer, said: “I am sure that the government is considering issues that contributed to losses last week, including fuel payments in winter, disability and health benefits,” said another member of the Labor Party, which is seen as a supporter of Starmer.

The Labor Party has lost its former stronghold in Ronkorn and Hildbes for reform in the sub -elections, with the Doncaster Council also lost to the right -wing Freuj Al Shabani Party in Faraj. The reform also approached the prolongation of the work of the North Tenniside mayor race.

Starmer has been dealt with in recent months in an attempt to face the rise of reform, including reducing the external aid budget and introducing measures against illegal immigration.

However, many work activists said that the discounts in the benefits were a more powerful issue in the local elections in the so -called “Red Wall”, and the former Labor Party in Midlands and northern England.

During the weekend, some deputies shared research indicating that the proposed changes on PIP can have a “devastating” impact on some of the most deprived societies in England.

The report issued by the Health Equity North, a group of academics, said the cuts will decrease strongly in the northeast and northwest of England. She said: “The ten electoral districts are all worse than the regions, and in the regions of” Red Wall “.

On Saturday, the deputy of the Labor Party Stella Chrissy said the party should be cautious about the “simulation” reform.

“Every new advisory council member is a warning, not a way to move forward. A warning simulates their plans to divide the British public and the hesitation of their speech does not provide votes in the ballot box and no better results for anyone.”

Instead, it called for urgent measures to address the cost of the living crisis, including ending the maximum of the child on the benefits and ending the discounts to PIP.

Rose Jones, the mayor of the work that was re -elected in Donkster last week, warned with a sharply reduced majority, after defeating the damage to the Starmer discounts to benefits such as PIP and winter fuel allowance.

One of the Labor Party parties said it expects a partial turn on fuel discounts in the winter before Christmas, with the autumn budget is the most likely moment.

They said: “No one at Downing Street now believes that this was a good idea. They all realized that it was a mistake. Everyone of them. At the present time, they say they will not do anything about it, but it does not seem“ yet ”instead of“ never ”.

They said that one of the options is to raise the tape of the eligibility so that the richest is excluded only. Currently, support is limited to retirees who receive retirement credit or other benefits.

Another government assistant said he was still “the first days”, but he expected that the work would not be able to “keep the line” on politics by the end of the year.

But he was asked whether Starmer would lead to a policy amendment, a Downing Street official said on Sunday: “I am not aware of any plans to do this, although people look at things all the time.” The Treasury did not immediately respond to the request for comment.

Adviser Rachel Reeves reduced the winter fuel in July after the elections to support public financial resources, claiming that the previous conservative government was excessive.

A former previous government figure said: “It was something that the Treasury was trying to get away from it throughout the ages.”

They said that Morgan Maksini, then the head of Starmer’s strategy, but now the chief of staff, “hung his head greatly in his hands” when he learned of the decision “because he knew what he meant politically.”