Labour will try 'very hard' to reduce rebellion on welfare bill, Donaldson says

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Sir Keir Starmer now faces a "massive Labour showdown" after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner confirmed next week's crunch Commons vote will get the go-ahead, a top political journalist has claimed.Rayner, who was standing in for Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions against Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, today confirmed to the House of Commons that a vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill will take place next week.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00i mean it seems extraordinary on the face of it that angela rayner said that this vote is going

00:05to go ahead on tuesday given given the scale i mean they will lose well at the moment they think

00:12they won't lose they think that uh the rebellion might melt away and some insiders are saying that

00:17actually perhaps the speaker might not select this amendment and therefore it won't be an issue

00:21however i think that's probably unlikely i think they will um try very hard over the weekend as

00:27chris was just saying to try and find some way to climb down slightly but i've been speaking to

00:33rebels this morning and they're saying actually there's nothing the government could give us now

00:37that will make us back down so you're right we're looking for a massive showdown next week

00:41yes because kitty a couple of hours ago you put out a piece in your paper um suggesting that sources are

00:47telling you that it's not going to go ahead that they're going to pull the bill so it's all over

00:52the place at the moment well that that was the speculation this morning absolutely that that

00:58members of the government uh uh were speculating that the bill could be pulled as early as today

01:03and the reason for that was is that lucy power who's the leader of the house of commons has to stand up

01:08tomorrow at the business statement and say this is the this is what's happening next week and so

01:14mps were saying well this has got to be pulled by this evening basically um there's been a flurry of

01:19sort of reaction across white hall and in number 10 this morning saying you know messages flying

01:25backwards and forwards saying we have no plans to do this but it's a sign of how how widespread these

01:30rumors were that angela rayner had to stand up at uh deputy prime minister's questions and insist

01:36that um that um that the uh the bill will go ahead next tuesday

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