The Sir Keir Starmer team was still engaged in the success of the first prime minister’s trip to meet Donald Trump at the White House on Friday morning, when she returned them to Earth.
Anneliese Dodds, Minister of Development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had resigned Four days after learning that she needed to monitor the ration of £ 6 billion for a budget for assistance in the UK to pay for the increase in the historical cost of defense.
“These cuts will remove food and health care from desperate people, deeply applying a share in the UK,” she said in her resignation letter.
Dodds is one of more than 400 Work MPs who have found themselves in charge of a series of difficult decisions of Starmer since his party won a rink in the July election.
Party officials believe that her resignation is an isolated incident, not the first crack in the defendant defeatral. But the reminder is that Starmer is facing challenges in holding his government and party together, while in the coming months, the increasing decisions.
“There are (also) people in the cabinet who are also dissatisfied,” said one member of the work. “This does not mean that we have reached a turning point against Keir, the mood is gloomy, not rebel.”
For the last 14 years, the party, which has lost four general choices in a sequence, has criticized the ruling conservatives for their alleged incompetence or cheeky.
Now they find multiple strokes of politics far beyond the comfort zone at the left, as ministers operate in strict fiscal rules and a messy geopolitical background.
Although the Government implements the policy of the left center in the huge increase in business taxes, the overhaul of workers’ rights and the nationalization of the railway-the solemn began with other measures that were demolished by lawmakers.
They include maintenance of caps with two children, cutting a winter fuel supplement for millions of pensioners, accepting a solid approach to immigration, a relaxed approach to artificial intelligence and accepting Brexit.
Starmer’s efusive courtship of Donald Trump, which many work lawmakers consider to be dangerous right -wingers, just added a list.
The harder decisions are descending the records in the consumption examination in June.
One minister said that the huge reduction of the social welfare system will be scheduled for the next month, it will be proven to be a “more toxic and painful” moment for the Labor MPs, which is a potentially greatest rebellion of Starmer’s leadership to this day.
“When I look at some of my new colleagues, you can see a growing alarm sense; they get it in the neck because of things like a winter fuel,” said one MP.
Tom Harris, a former Labor MP and a commentator, used a column in the telegraph to describe the current work administration as “at least traditional definitions, more right -wing than anything that went.”
The Whips Office imposed a tight discipline, with seven MPs suspended last summer for voting against restriction on two children’s fees: only four were forgiven. As a result, most MPs dissuade criticize the record in the record.
But a former frontbencher said colleagues were “shocked” by a sudden reduction of help, even if they understood the need to reinforce the cost of defense.
“People are angry that politics thought so terribly, especially for those who face the challenges of greenery and independent,” they said. “But people want to be loyal and they are very afraid to speak.”
Another MP said that even many “hidden loyalists” had previously worked as a charity organization and were upset about the decision.
“We know that people will die as a result. However, we agree with the cost of defense because it is a political reality, “he said. Many colleagues would invent every parliamentary discussion on the matter, he predicted.
Expressing a peaceful despair, one MP accepted the cutting “Politically Politically” can be cut “, citing the YouGov survey, which shows 64 percent of public support for the move, but added:” Moral and strategic this is not okay. ”
One new MP said they did not deliver leaflets to hundreds of doors just to make decisions on fees and help “right -wingers”.
“I think it will morally reciprocate. We take billions of some of the fiercest people on Earth,” they said. “We forget our liberal left -wing voters that we can easily lose to Lib Dems and Green.”
However, for all the anger on the left and the “soft left” of the parliamentary Labor Party, other MPs believe that the Starmer’s decision was correct under the pressure of a new Washington administration on the European Government to raise the cost of defense. One told the Financial Times that he was “delighted”.
During Starmer’s meeting with Trump on Thursday, the US president praised the UK’s decision to raise the cost of defense.
Some of those who welcomed the premiere move – which he said was taken away from reluctant – threatened in the UK Nigel Farage, a party in the UK.
“The recent steps of the Prime Minister were very convincing,” said Dan Carden, who runs a group of “blue work” of economically left -wing but socially conservative MPs. “There is a clear attempt to anchor the Government and be on the side of common sense, our national interests and the value of the working class,” he told FT.
Another Member of Parliament said most of his colleagues were “more concerned about the war spectrum” than cuts for help.
One of the new entries said that the increase in defense costs is popular.
“For a lot of MPs.. This is the first time we put something on our own [social media] And she’s not screaming, “she said.
“Everyone thinks the prime minister is increasing to the occasion. All Tori and Farage people have to admit locally that this is a good thing.”
One cabinet minister told FT that politics had multi-party and public support. “Even Keir doesn’t think it’s a good idea,” they said. “He knows it’s the only idea.”
