Andy Burnham has called on Labour MPs to vote down government’s welfare cuts at an Glastonbury event over the weekend
The Greater Manchester Mayor said the Prime Minister had only performed “half a U-turn”, which did not go far enough
Burnham told the audience at Leftfield speaking on a panel about disability cuts
“What’s been announced is half a U-turn, a 50% U-turn. In my view I’d still hope MPs vote against the whole bill when it comes before parliament.”
Labour MPs he said “face the prospect, if they accept this package, someone could come to their surgery in two years saying ‘why did you vote to make me £6,000 worse off than someone exactly the same, but who was protected because they were an existing claimant’?”
