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karma is facing a 50 strong rebellion
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from his backbenches despite watering
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down his welfare cuts politically this
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is a big blow to the prime minister
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exposing his weak grip on his own party
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despite winning such a huge majority
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just one year ago but it's an even
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bigger problem for Rachel Reeves who now
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needs to find another4 billion pounds to
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make her sums add up having promised not
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to come back for further tax rises her
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position is now looking increasingly
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untenable watch out for a sacking ahead
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of Labour conference but beyond the
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narrow fortunes of Star's premiership
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this U-turn will have catastrophic
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consequences for the public finances and
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it's just not fair to the working people
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he claims to represent so what's the
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context the number of people claiming
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disability benefits has soared since the
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pandemic with 3,000 people a day being
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signed off work for ill health yes 3,000
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a day that means that one in 10 people
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of working age in Britain is now
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considered disabled are we really that
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sick and frail as a nation yes we have
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an increasingly aging and obese
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population but the most alarming rise is
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among young people especially men up
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150% since 201920 and a substantial
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proportion 37% of those claims are for
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mental health conditions it simply
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defies belief that all of these under
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40s are unable to work or that being
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written off by society and condemned to
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life playing video games in a basement
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is the best thing for their mental
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health and in fact the Taxpayers
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Alliance has found that people are even
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claiming for conditions like acne and
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food intolerances that's not just a
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tragic waste of human potential it's
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fiscally unsustainable public spending
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as a whole is set to be 280 billion
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higher than before the pandemic putting
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us on track to a 1.4 trillion pound
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state we simply can't afford a country
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where every adult cost the government
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£24,000 even K Starman knows we can't go
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on like this but his proposed cuts were
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only intended to shave 4 billion off a
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30 billion rise in the national
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incapacity bill it turns out he can't
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even do that pathetic instead he will
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continue overspending on an absurd
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two-tier system where those claiming now
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are judged by completely different
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standard to those in the future
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essentially an admission that the
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current definition is too broad and too
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easy to abuse while also being a huge
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incentive to sign up as quickly as
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possible but frankly none of this should
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surprise us labour's election manifesto
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only contained the word welfare twice
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both in relation to animal rights they
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had no real principles-based plan to
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improve the welfare system or to give
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more people the dignity of work such as
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the coalition government had in 2010
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labour has treated this as a narrow
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cost-saving exercise instead of asking
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for example why we never return to
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in-person assessments after the pandemic
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as a result the chancellor will have to
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come back for more tax rises in autumn
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and will that chancellor still be Rachel
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Reeves by then who knows the fact is the
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only thing this Labor government stands
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for is state dependency and the only
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thing it knows how to do is to tax the
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rest of us to pay for it for more
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