Starmer faces growing workers' rights backlash led by Rayner ally

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : She added: "The Employment Rights Bill is the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation.
50% : " Sir Keir's latest about-turn came just a day after the Government unveiled £30bn of tax rises and scrapped the two-child benefit cap in an attempt to appease Left-wing backbench critics.
46% : Sir Keir Starmer is facing a growing Labour backlash led by an ally of Angela Rayner after he tore up a flagship pledge in the workers' rights bill.
43% : He was forced into climbdowns on cuts to the winter fuel allowance and welfare spending.
43% : The Prime Minister and Ms Reeves have both claimed that the party's specific manifesto commitments on income tax, VAT and National Insurance have not been breached.
42% : That right had been championed by Ms Rayner, who was Sir Keir's deputy until her resignation in September following a Telegraph investigation that exposed her tax affairs.
41% : The row follows Sir Keir and Rachel Reeves, his Chancellor, also reneging on a manifesto promise not to raise taxes on "working people" in this week's Budget.
36% : But Ms Reeves's decision to extend a freeze on income tax thresholds until 2030-31 means that 1.7 million tax bands will be dragged into higher tax bands by the end of the decade.

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