Rachel Reeves' local Labor Party will call on the Prime Minister to abandon her plan to cut disability benefits as MPs grow insurgency toward policy.
The Leeds West and Pudsey District Labor Party (CLP) campaign last year brought Reeves back to Parliament as a member of Congress and has agreed to write to her “as soon as possible” to make it clear that it does not support the cuts.
A Labor source told the Guardian that the motion was unanimously passed at a Zoom meeting on Thursday night, with 30 delegates voting, zero votes against or abstaining.
The CLP earlier held a meeting at the Villagers Community Club in Bramley, Leeds in April - Reeves attended the meeting in person but left before discussing the issue - reportedly had to be abandoned as there were not enough members present.
"This speaks to the morale of the party, and the initial meeting didn't even have enough people to pass the vote. One person is excited to hope that Labour members have the opportunity to meet with the teenager's labour government for less than a year," one source said.
The government's plan, which stipulated earlier this year in the Green Book would lower the eligibility criteria for individual independent payments (PIP), a major disability benefit in England. Restricting PIP will cut benefits to about 800,000 people, and elements of disease related to universal credit will be cut.
When the government faces rebellion against its backseaters, opposing Reeves' home patch. According to media reports, about 100 Labor MPs, more than a quarter of the party's parliament, have reportedly signed a letter urging ministers to cut down on benefits.
Some MPs expressed dissatisfaction with how leaders allegedly handled opposition to change. "There is no real attempt to engage in. This has left the backseaters busy meetings. They almost see it as a vibrant test. It's not a helpful politics," said a newly elected MP.
Relations have been further intensified after a highly critical letter in The Guardian last week - 42 of whom MPs told the Prime Minister that he planned to cut people with disabilities "cannot support" - without a response from Keir Starmer's office.
"You would think the leadership would say, 'I'm a little angry, you went to the paper, but let's talk about what you said." No one made any suggestions. ”
It is understood that the newly elected members of Congress believe they are expected to defend their unelected policies without allowing any input.
One MP said: “Unless the government proposes this idea, that doesn’t count.
Another senior backseater said: "I strongly believe that there is no PLP No. 10 is the problem to be solved. Advisors around Kiel believe that PLP is an inconvenience for the government."
The government said the proposals could recover £5 billion from the welfare budget by the end of the decade.
Asked last week what she was in information about the workplace, Reeves said: "I think anyone, including labor MPs and members, thinks that the current welfare system that the Conservatives create today is working. They know that the system needs reform. We do need to reform the welfare system, and if we are going to grow our economy, how it needs to work."