Starmer Drops Flagship Welfare Reforms to Avoid Defeat
Bloomberg Television·2025-07-02 06:22
Lizzy, how weakened is the UK Prime Minister now. Well, Tom Keir Starmer faced an ugly choice, didn't he, before this vote. On the one hand, he could have lost a key vote, as you say, and it's not one that he should have struggled to pass.Theoretically, given he's got this huge, historic 165 MP majority. His other choice, though, was to make a U-turn. And it was on this bill, this welfare reform bill, and particularly the contentious part was restricting benefit payments to some disabled people from next ye ...