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The government might be trying to tough out its plans to cut disability benefits — but on the BBC’s Politics Live today, it was clear: the rebellion is snowballing.

More than 123 Labour MPs are now known to have backed the reasoned amendment that would block the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.

That’s already moving towards half of Labour’s backbenchers — and the number is still rising.

One panellist today put it plainly, saying that if the situation keeps snowballing, every Labour backbencher could be against this Bill by the time it is debated next week.

That is no exaggeration.

With a week to go before the scheduled vote on Tuesday, July 1, here’s what’s happening:

• 🔺 MPs are still signing the rebel amendment

• 🔺 Backbenchers are furious about being leaned on to support cuts they weren’t elected to impose

• 🔺 The leadership is losing control of the narrative

• 🔺 The government is rumoured to be considering delaying the vote, fearing it may lose

The pressure is working — but it must keep growing

The proposed Bill would:

• Strip benefits from 3.2 million families

• Leave some people £10,000 a year worse off

• Push 250,000 people — including 50,000 children — into poverty

• Cut Personal Independence Payment (PIP) from 370,000 current claimants

• Deny support to people with MS, cancer, arthritis, epilepsy, and other chronic conditions

And all of it with no consultation, no full impact analysis, and no moral case.

We can still stop it — if we keep up the pressure

If you haven’t done so already:

Email your MP now — especially if they haven’t signed the amendment: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

Post publicly on the social media, asking them where they stand.

Call on them to back the reasoned amendment.

Ask them if they support pushing disabled people further into poverty.

If you’re in a constituency with a newly elected Labour MP, this matters even more.

Many of them have already joined the rebellion.

The rest need to know their voters are watching.

The next seven days are critical

This rebellion didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from pressure, truth-telling, and anger.

If MPs keep coming on board at the current pace, we could see a total backbench revolt by next week.

If the government loses the vote, the Bill falls.

If they delay it, the pressure must only grow.

Let’s make sure they can’t hide these cuts in the shadows — not in July, and not in the autumn (more on that in another article).

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