Editorial: The cabinet minister’s jibe about ‘who can we tax’ paints a picture of a weak PM giving in to pressure from his MPs to pay for benefits – but the wider party must now own its part in shooting itself in the foot

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In a damning assessment of his own government, Sir Keir Starmer's former Cabinet enforcer Pat McFadden said it was asking the 'wrong questions'.

McFadden is the Work and Pensions Secretary. That he thinks Labour is being far too generous on benefits and too gungho on taxes is seismic.

Editorial: The cabinet minister’s jibe about ‘who can we tax’ paints a picture of a weak PM giving in to pressure from his MPs to pay for benefits – but the wider party must now…

DWP secretary Pat McFadden also apppeared to double down on comments about welfare reform, revealed in the Mandelson files earlier this week and seized on by the Conservatives