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Dozens of Labor representatives who oppose the Sir Kerr Starmer legislation, which would reduce the advantages of social welfare, seek to prevent its approval through Parliament, while it may be a major blow to the Prime Minister Reform Program.

Up to 100 Labor Party representatives, including 11 senior parliamentarians, supports a causative amendment called the Social Welfare Law that seeks to stop the legislation that is subject to its first major vote in the House of Commons next week, according to the rebels.

The large number of Work deputies Ready to support the amendment will worry Starmer and his ministry, because if 100 will vote in his favor with the opposition parties, the government may suffer from a defeat.

The amendment was submitted by 11 employment chair from the chosen public committees, including Meg Hiller, Chairman of the Treasury Committee.

He stated that the social welfare bill should not have its second reading of the rumors because its rulings were not the subject of a general advice with the disabled.

The amendment also opposes the second reading on the basis of the budget responsibility, which is the Central Financial Agency in the United Kingdom, has not published an analysis of the impact of employment for reform, and because the government’s private estimates indicate that the procedure will push 250,000 people to poverty, including about 50,000 children.

“We don’t want to defeat the government, but we want the government to think again. We are asked to vote before consulting with the disabled and before the effects of the effect,” Hillier said.

the The rebels are deputies They hope that, by threatening to prevent the passage of the Welfare Law on Starmer through Parliament, the ministers will reform the measure in ways they find acceptable.

Starmer seeks to pay a significant reform of the social welfare system to reduce government spending and help reform public financial resources.

The proposed changes in the social welfare bill will lead to about 800,000 people who are entitled to obtain the advantages of disability, many of whom need to help wash themselves or use the toilet.

Starmer gave the priority to investing in NHS as well as great increases in defensive spending, because it aims to formulate an increasing threat from the right -wing Popular Reform Party in Nigel Farraj.

The Prime Minister has returned to his unimportant decision to take fuel payments in the winter from about 10 million retirees, and pointed to the allies that he is keen to cancel the ceiling of the child’s bilateral benefits, which is a great contributor to the poverty of the child.

But on Monday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves insisted that there will be no “do not turn” on the social welfare bill, as she told reporters, “There must be reform.”

Minister of Labor and Pensions Liz Kendall The deputies told a meeting of the Parliamentary Labor Party that “there is no way to social justice on the basis of more spending on benefits alone,” saying that government reform plans are “rooted in fairness.”

Some of the Labor Party deputies raised concerns about reform, but others spoke in favor of government plans, according to the people at the meeting on Monday.

One of the deputies opposing the social welfare bill said that “it is horrific watching your party as it makes such a strong mistake.”