UK ministers, those who warn about the return of the well-being means less money for other priorities

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Pat McFadden, one of the highest ministers in the UK government, said that the climbing of the climbing of the Labor Party’s Welfare Reforms is less money to spend on other priorities for a financial hole.

McFadden, the most reliable lieutenant of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, said the Welfare Reform Project has passed fumbled in the eleventh hour To stop stopping labor on Tuesday, the party was a “challenging process” that raises the hard questions.

“There is no price for the decision taken yesterday, because there is no rejection of it,” McFadden told the BBC on Wednesday morning.

“You can’t spend the same money twice,” he said. “So more money means less for other purposes of money (Welfare).”

The Institute of Fiscal Studies, the prosperity bill will now be effective in the final minutes, the government will be effective, preliminary reforms to reduce £ 5 billion, he said.

If the Chancellor Rachel Reeves stick to financial regulationsTaking into account the limited headroom, he must find the cuts in the head or collect taxes in the fall budget.

“The government has made a little money to save anything, at least a money to the end of this parliament,” he said.

“The government is probably more and more, it seems more and more,” he said.

Britain’s debt expenditures reduced 10 years of 10-year productivity in early trade on Wednesday by 0.50 percent.

“By delivering themselves to fiscal rules, almost inevitably, the walls will be closed at once,” he said.

“Gilt asked investors to see the spending cuts,” he said. “Now the only exit of the government has risen the tax that risking the spiral of the death spiral of growth.”

McFadden insisted on the government, still tried to cancel the criticism that said that the progress of progress with the reform or Wednesday is severely violated by the Starmer’s authority For one year of office.

However, he acknowledged that in November 2026, if the government’s disability benefits are expected to be considered in welfare reforms

On Tuesday, the government stopped the changes made of personal independent payments after the next after the next, it seemed as soon as he returned. Starmer had already weakened the bill to try to win the surrounding rebels last week.

“There is a case for welfare reform,” said McFadden. “(This) remains so in the future.”

The Secretary of State for McFadden, Liz Kendall, Jobs and Pensions, defended by many commentators who believe in drying the government.

Kendall said Kendall liked “torture” in this process.

“He is a great man to do this,” McFadden said that the government was trying to put a union show from high levels of government. “We stand together as a team.”