More than 120 Labour MPs are poised to rebel against the government on Tuesday
Lucy Powell, the leader of the Commons, has told MPs that the government is still planning for the vote on the second reading of the UC and Pip bill go to ahead on Tuesday night next week.
Morgan McSweeney, the PM’s chief of staff, is being blamed by many Labour MPs for No 10 now being in the situation where, with less than a week to go before the vote on the welfare bill, the government does not yet have the votes to get it through.
In a long read on McSweeney’s role in the crisis, written by Jim Pickard, George Parker and Anna Gross, the Financial Times quotes a “Labour veteran” saying:
Everyone is selling shares in Morgan. People are starting to put their heads above the parapet and say maybe he’s not the Messiah after all.
