FURIOUS Labour MPs are poised to rebel against Sir Keir Starmer because they think they’re toast at the next election.
Moderate backbenchers who have so far towed the party line are mulling taking a public stand on issues including disability benefit cuts, and winter fuel payments – even if it means losing the whip.
There is also growing anger around the two-child benefit cap still being in place.
The Sun understands some MPs want to work “with a clear conscience”;; until the end of this – knowing that they are unlikely to return because of the threat of Reform.
A Red Wall Labour MP said: “Multiple colleagues with slim majorities think they have no chance of winning their seat.
“They want to hold the PM to account on issues causing an uproar locally, including PIP payments, and think they have nothing to lose if they defy party whips going forward.”;;
More than 40 Labour MPs have signed their name to a letter describing disability cuts as “impossible to support”;;.
The Sun understands there are more who want to sign it – but fear their names being leaked and revealed in the media.
They want to come across as “genuine”;; when deciding to take a “principled stand”;; against the PM.
Another Labour MP told The Sun: “The numbers willing to rebel are much higher than expected.
“I think people shouldn’t underestimate just how much welfare is a driver of why a lot of Labour MPs, particularly moderates, are in the in the first place.
“A lot of our was defined by the performative cruelty of the Osbourne era, and that casts a long shadow.”;;
Responding to the brewing anger in Labour ranks, Reform MP said: “Not only has Starmer lost the backing of the country but also his own MPs, even they don’t trust him to cut immigration and look after our pensioners.
“Labour MPs have made their bed and now must lie in it thanks to voting for these disastrous policies.
“Come the next , Reform will show Keir and his barmy set of MPs the door and the Red Wall be lost forever.”;;
