MPs warn No 10: frontbenchers could quit over disability benefits plan
by Jessica Elgot and Aletha Adu from World news | The Guardian on (#6VY3F)
Labour MPs suggest backlash means Starmer cannot push ahead with freeze on some personal independence payments
No 10 has been warned it could face frontbench resignations if it follows through with plans to freeze some disability benefits - a move that would require a vote in parliament.
Labour MPs have been particularly alarmed by a refusal, both in private and in public, by the prime minister and others in cabinet to commit to not cutting help for the most vulnerable disabled people who cannot work.
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