Keir Starmer has 'lost control' of Government and authority is 'in tatters', Whately tells GB News

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Helen Whately has launched a scathing attack on the Government, following the dramatic collapse of its welfare reform bill in Parliament.The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary declared that "the Prime Minister's reputation is now in tatters" after ministers were forced to withdraw significant portions of the legislation during debate.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Hello, Wendy. What just happened in there?

00:02Oh, it's been an extraordinary afternoon in the chamber.

00:05I mean, already Labour had been making U-turns on this welfare bill.

00:09It started out saving £5 billion, then they made a U-turn,

00:12which brought it down to about £2.5 billion.

00:13And then literally in the chamber this afternoon,

00:15the minister stood up, made an intervention and pulled half of the bill out.

00:20He can't even say now how much it's going to save.

00:23But what is crystal clear is that the government's economic credibility is in tatters

00:27and Keir Starmer's authority is in tatters too.

00:30It feels like Number 10 has lost control of the backbench Labour Party tonight.

00:34I mean, Number 10 has lost control of their backbenchers,

00:36has lost control of the whole of government.

00:38Governments have to be able to make difficult decisions.

00:41It's impossible to see how Keir Starmer will be able to make any difficult decisions in the years ahead.

00:45He cannot control his party.

00:46And actually, you know, it was his fault and Rachel Reeves' fault.

00:49They got themselves into this position.

00:50They brought forward really bad legislation, really inadequate, insufficient savings as well.

00:55And they didn't listen to their backbenchers and they didn't listen to us either.

00:59And they have brought this on themselves.

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