{"id":3606,"date":"2025-06-19T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/government-whip-quits-over-disability-benefit-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:48:41","slug":"government-whip-quits-over-disability-benefit-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/government-whip-quits-over-disability-benefit-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Government whip quits over disability benefit cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government whip quits over disability benefit cuts<\/p>\n

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Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a whip over the government’s plans to cut disability benefits.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the prime minister, Foxcroft said she understood the need to address “the ever-increasing welfare bill” but said cuts to personal independence payments and universal credit should “not be part of the solution”. <\/p>\n

She said she had “wrestled with whether I should resign or remain in the government and fight for changes from within”.<\/p>\n

She added: “Sadly it now seems that we are not going to get the changes I desperately wanted to see.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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