Labour MPs and officers briefing towards work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall ought to “shut up”, Harriet Harman has stated.
Ms Kendall stated on Thursday she was “determined to fix the broken benefits system” forward of asserting “radical welfare reforms” subsequent week.
Ministers have been priming Labour MPs and the general public for cuts to a ballooning welfare invoice for the reason that begin of the 12 months.
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Baroness Harriet Harman stated folks criticising Liz Kendall ought to ‘shut up’
Requested what she considered briefings towards Ms Kendall as welfare cuts loom, Baroness Harman stated: “I hate these types of briefings.
“I don’t think anybody should be briefing against Labour ministers who are trying to implement the manifesto.
“You already know, she is extremely competent and leads a extremely devoted group. So I feel they need to simply shut up and pull collectively.”
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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall. Pic: PA
An increasing number of Labour MPs have publicly criticised the approaching profit cuts, with many involved they may hit folks with disabilities essentially the most.
Downing Road has taken the bizarre step of calling all 404 Labour MPs into Quantity 10 over Wednesday and Thursday for briefings on the adjustments forward of the main points being launched subsequent week.
Baroness Harman stated she thinks Ms Kendall is a “rising star” and is “absolutely certain” the PM and chancellor will stand behind her.
The peer was social safety secretary – the equal of Ms Kendall’s job now – at first of Tony Blair’s first time period after Labour’s 1997 landslide win.
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She was compelled to defend profit cuts simply after they got here to energy and stated there are “lots of parallels between what we were trying to do then, and what the government is trying to do now”.
Nevertheless, she stated the distinction is, in 1997 she was making the argument for welfare cuts to assist single dad and mom into work by herself, however Ms Kendall is being backed by Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer.
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