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Labour created the welfare state. Now, it is intent on slicing it again

By Editorial Board Published March 19, 2025 7 Min Read
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Labour created the welfare state. Now, it is intent on slicing it again

Labour was the celebration that created the welfare state. Now it’s intent on slicing it again.

And in Liz Kendall, the federal government has discovered a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly fully snug in going tougher on profit cuts than any of her Conservative predecessors since 2015, in accordance with the Institute of Fiscal Research.

Once I ask her about that, she is unrepentant and unfazed by colleagues’ criticisms.

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‘I would not be capable of survive’

“I am going to be a Labour work and pensions secretary who fixes a broken system,” she mentioned, “who says to people who’ve been written off and denied chances and choices that we believe in them…

“I’m cross, as a result of I’ve seen in my very own constituency individuals written off to a life that’s not the life they hoped for themselves or their kids or their households.

“I want to fix it. And that’s what I’m determined to do.”

This, then, is the ethical case for reform that she and the prime minister have talked about in latest weeks.

And on Tuesday, Ms Kendall outlined reforms designed to cut back these claiming the principle incapacity, with a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals anticipated to lose private independence funds (PIP) in the event that they endure from milder psychological well being situations and fewer extreme bodily difficulties.

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Liz Kendall

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Labour declares profit cuts

The goal is to avoid wasting £5bn from a incapacity advantages invoice for working-age individuals set to balloon by over £20bn to £75bn by the top of the last decade.

Ask some in Labour and they’ll privately acknowledge and argue that is however a drop within the ocean, with one insider telling me this week they did not suppose the reforms went far sufficient.

“I don’t think people have clocked the size of the numbers going on here,” they mentioned. Take a look at the general public funds and you’ll see why.

Whereas the Labour Get together clearly talked about welfare reform in its manifesto, it by no means signalled it might make these kinds of cuts to the advantages invoice. However the surroundings has modified.

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Labour created the welfare state. Now, it is intent on slicing it again

2:58

‘I would not be capable of survive’

Progress is sluggish, which many companies – and the opposition – blame on tax rises within the October finances, whereas the price of authorities borrowing is on the rise.

The chancellor now finds herself with a gap within the public funds to the tune of £9.9bn, which she has to fill if she is to fulfil her self-imposed fiscal rule that day-to-day authorities spending have to be funded by way of tax receipts – not borrowing – by 2029/30.

She was additionally clear she wasn’t coming again with extra tax rises. As an alternative will probably be spending cuts, and welfare is the primary wave, with a spending squeeze throughout Whitehall departments anticipated within the Spring Assertion.

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Sky's Beth Rigby explains benefits cuts.

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Advantages cuts defined

Sir Keir Starmer advised me final week that his plans to reform the state, with hundreds of job cuts already signalled in NHS England and profit cuts, that there will likely be “no return to austerity”.

His hope is that reform – be it by way of expertise or effectivity financial savings – can imply public companies are maintained even when charges of spending progress are lowered.

It might not really feel like that for many who are on the sharp finish of the £5bn of profit cuts coming down the observe.

“The intellectual question hasn’t been answered here: is this about principled reform or is it a cost-saving exercise?,” one cupboard supply advised me on Tuesday.

“There are some concerns this doesn’t fix the issues around welfare but rather is about finding quick savings.”

There will likely be unease amongst MPs, unions and charities because the Labour Get together strikes onto conventional Tory territory with welfare cuts as a strapped Labour authorities seems for financial savings. It’s uncomfortable terrain.

“I have to say these are Conservative policies that Labour MPs will be voting for,” the previous Tory work and pensions secretary Baroness Coffey advised me on Tuesday.

“Overall, I think a lot of Labour MPs will be very unhappy about what they heard today [but] I think the Conservatives will support a considerable amount of that because, as I say, a lot of this was Conservative policy. We didn’t have time to do the legislation, unfortunately, towards the end of the parliament.”

Sir Keir Starmer has the bulk to herald these adjustments, however slicing the advantages of these dwelling with disabilities will likely be controversial within the Labour motion even when the measures are extra fashionable with the broader public.

As one veteran Labour MP put it to me: “This is one of these issues that come back to bite later.”

The satan will likely be within the element, and for now, a whole bunch of hundreds of advantages recipients do not know if they may nonetheless be eligible for the principle incapacity profit – private independence funds – within the coming months, with the federal government but to stipulate the place the £5bn of financial savings will likely be discovered.

It’s an anxious time for many who depend on the welfare state. How lengthy a shadow these reforms will solid over Sir Keir’s home agenda is tough to inform – however these reforms look set to change into his hardest promote.

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