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Starmer faces darkening mood among Labour MPs after aid cuts

The Sir Kerr Starmer team, who was wrong in the aircraft, was still successful in the success of the Prime Minister to meet Donald Trump at the White House on Friday morning when they were brought back with a high -level resignation to Earth.

Anilis Dodz, Minister of Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was to resign Four days after her knowledge, she would have supervised a 6 billion pounds raid on the UK aid budget to pay the costs of spending.

She said in her resignation speech: “These cuts will remove food and health care from desperate people, which strongly harms the reputation of the United Kingdom.”

Dodds is one of more than 400 exhaustion Representatives who found themselves are dividing the responsibility of a series of difficult decisions that Starmer has made since his party defeated the ground victory in the July elections.

Party officials believe that her resignation is an isolated incident, rather than the first rift in a dam of discontent. But this is a reminder that Starmer is facing challenges in bringing his government and party together as he is increasingly difficult decisions in the coming months.

Food and blankets for Rohingya refugees
A raid of 6 billion pounds on the UK aid budget © DFID

One of the Labor Party deputy said: “There are also people in the cabinet that are also not satisfied with” cutting aid. “This does not mean that we have reached the turning point against Kiir, though, the mood is dark and not a rebel.”

Over the past 14 years, the party, which has lost four general elections, has criticized the ruling conservatives due to their supposed incompetence or bars.

Now they find themselves linked to multiple political movements outside the amenities in the middle policy to the left, where the ministers work within strict financial and rear baccalaureate regulations.

Although the government is following the policies of the center’s left-including a significant increase in business taxes, workers ’rights reform and railway nationalization-it has also begun in other measures that spoil workers’ representatives.

This includes preserving the ceiling of benefits

Care Starmer flirting with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday
Care Starmer flirting with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday © Carl Court/Getty Images

In addition, although Starmer’s meeting with Trump was considered a victory by the Labor Party deputies, his flirtation provided to an American president considers many to be rightly right.

The most difficult decisions The tracks in the spending review in June.

One of the minister said that the vast discounts in the social welfare system scheduled for next month will prove that they are the most “poisonous and painful” moment of work deputies, which is likely to be the rebellion in the leadership of Starmer until now.

“When I look at some of my new colleagues, you can see an increased warning feeling; one of the deputy said:” They get it in the neck on things like fuel allowance in the winter. “

Tom Harris, a former and suspended deputy, used a column in the telegraph to describe the current work administration as “at least through traditional definitions, more than anything else that has happened before.”

The whip office imposed the narrow discipline, as seven deputies were suspended last summer to vote against the bilateral bilateral batch ceiling: only four were tolerated. As a result, most deputies hate criticism of driving in the registry.

Tom Harris
Former MP Tom Harris described the current Starmer administration as “more right than anything that has happened before” © Shutterstock

But one of them was previously said that colleagues were “shocked” by lower aid cuts even if they understood the need to increase spending on defense.

They said: “People are angry that politics has been considered in particular sad for those who face challenges from vegetables and independents.” “But people want to be loyal and afraid to speak publicly.”

A member of the other Labor Party said that even many “distinguished loyalists” had previously worked as charities and were annoyed by the decision.

We know that people will die as a result. However, we also agree with defensive spending because it is a political fact. ”He said that many colleagues will outperform any parliamentary debate on this issue.

Expressing the calm despair, before one of the Libyans that cutting aid “may be commonly common”, citing a YouGov poll showing 64 percent of the general support of this step, but they added: “From an ethical and strategic point of view, this is a mistake.”

One of the new deputy said that they did not deliver leaflets at hundreds of doors just to take “right” decisions on benefits and assistance.

“I think it will bring morally counterproductive. We take billions of some more deprived people on Earth.” We forget our liberal leftist voters that we can easily lose in front of Democrats and vegetables. “

However, despite the anxiety on the left and the “soft left” of the Parliamentary Labor Party, other deputies believe that the aid decision by Starmer was correct with pressure from the new Washington administration on European governments to raise defense spending. One of them told the Financial Times that he was “pleased.”

During a Starmer meeting with Trump on Thursday, the US President praised the UK decision to raise defense spending.

Some of those who live in the movement of the Prime Minister – who said it was reluctant – in seats threatened by the right -wing Islah party in Nigel Farraj.

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Dan Kardin: “There is a clear attempt to consolidate the government and recovery alongside the proper logic, our national interest and the values ​​of the working class.” © Ken Mckay/ITV/Shutterstock

“The recent steps of the prime minister were very reassuring,” said Dan Kardin, who leads the “Blue Work” group of economic representatives, but socially conservatives. “There is a clear attempt to consolidate the government and be alongside sound instinct, our national interests and the values ​​of the working class,” he said to FT.

Another deputy said that most of his colleagues were “more anxious about the specter of war” than the discounts that should help.

One of the new income said that the increase in defense spending was common.

“For many deputies. This is the first time that we put something on [social media] “She did not shout,” she said.

Everyone believes that the Prime Minister is rising to this occasion. . . Each Conservative and District Party must have a good thing to give up. “

A minister of cabinet FT told that policy has comprehensive support and general support. And they said, “Even Kiir does not think it is a good idea.” “He knows it’s the only idea.”

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2025-02-28 13:39:00

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