Labour MPs turn on Starmer over the Chancellor’s welfare cuts and NIC hike as Reform surges

Labour MPs are now turning on the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as Nigl Farage’s Reform UK Party surged overnight in the local elections.

The newly elected Doncaster Labour Mayor Ros Jones won by a paper-thin margin, has urged Starmer to make a U-turn on the winter fuel and welfare cuts including the soaring increase into employers National Insurance Contributions.

Dianne Abbot wrote on X, “Mayor Ros Jones is right on this. The Labour leadership should be listening to voters on winter fuel payments, welfare cuts, the cost of living, the NHS and energy bills.

“Instead, it is attacking our own voters.”

Labour MP for Alloa and Grangemouth Brian Leishman said: “Runcorn shows Labour must change course.

“People voted for real change last July & an end to austerity.

“The first 10 months haven’t been good enough or what the people want & if we don’t improve people’s living standards then the next government will be an extreme right wing one.”