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Labour's payment reforms measure has passed, with 335 MPs voting successful favour and 260 against.
It came aft the authorities watered down the measure earlier this evening, making a melodramatic last-minute concession to the demands of would-be rebel MPs who were acrophobic astir the harm the argumentation would bash to disabled people.
The concessions could extremity up leaving the authorities with £5.5bn to marque up from either taxation rises oregon cuts elsewhere.
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The authorities has a working majority of 166, truthful it would person taken 84 rebels to decision the bill.
In total, 49 Labour MPs inactive voted against the measure contempt the concessions. No MPs from different parties voted alongside the government, though 3 MPs elected for Labour who person since had the whip removed did so.
Which Labour MPs rebelled?
Last week, 127 Labour MPs signed what they called a "reasoned amendment", a missive stating their objection to the measure arsenic it was.
The authorities responded with immoderate concessions to effort and triumph backmost the rebels, which was capable to person immoderate of them. But they were inactive yet forced to marque much changes today.
In total, 68 MPs who signed the archetypal "reasoned amendment" yet voted successful favour of the bill.
Nine successful 10 MPs elected for the archetypal clip astatine the 2024 wide predetermination voted with the government.
That compares with less than 3 quarters of MPs who were voted successful earlier that.
A full of 42 Labour MPs besides voted successful favour of an amendment that would person stopped the measure from adjacent going to a ballot astatine all. That was voted down by 328 votes to 149.
How does the rebellion comparison historically?
If the wording of the measure had remained unchanged and 127 MPs oregon much had voted against it connected Tuesday, it would person been up determination arsenic 1 of the biggest rebellions successful British parliamentary history.
As it happened, it was inactive higher than the largest recorded during Tony Blair’s archetypal twelvemonth arsenic PM, erstwhile 47 of his Labour colleagues (including Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn, who besides voted against the measure connected Tuesday) voted nary to his program to chopped benefits for single-parent families.
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