Government whip Vicky Foxcroft quits over disability benefit cuts
Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a whip over the government's plans to cut disability benefits.In a letter to the prime minister, Foxcroft said she understood the need to address "the ever-increasing welfare bill" but said cuts to personal independence payments and universal credit should "not be part of the solution". She said she had "wrestled with whether I should resign or remain in the government and fight for changes from within".She added: "Sadly it now seems that we are not going to get the changes I desperately wanted to see."
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