Rainer and Cooper criticized the discounts at the UK Cabinet meeting

Prime Minister Angela Rainer, Interior Minister Evit Cooper and Minister of Justice, were a young Mahmoud from senior ministers who raised concerns about reviewing spending on the horizon in a “tense” session in the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, according to people aware of the meeting.

The “big minority” of the Council of Ministers protested the discounts planned in its sections as a consultant Rachel Reeves Looking for savings to make her money add up to up, and one of the people added.

The ministers also reported concerns about the plans of up to 6 billion pounds of discounts in social welfare, which are expected to be determined next week by the Minister of Labor and Pensions Liz Kendall.

The people said that Energy Minister Ed Miliband and the leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell were among those who raised concerns about these things.

Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer allowed the meeting to continue for a longer period than usual due to the strength of the feeling of the room inside Downing Street. Multiple government figures spoke to financial times about the meeting, but they were all asked to talk about the record.

A person familiar with the cabinet meeting said that various challenges were raised by a large number of senior ministers. Another said: “He was tense but he was collective and professional.”

Darren Jones, Treasury Secretary, leads spending – to the conclusion in June – which will cover three years of spending on departments. These unprotected departments, such as the environment, the local government and justice, were asked to design real discounts of up to 11 percent.

During the cabinet meeting, Mahmoud identified the issue for the reason that the pressure of spending on the horizon will be difficult for the Ministry of Justice, which bore long -term budget discounts and supervises the prison system, which is almost at full capacity. Cooper also defined the potential impact to increase the emphasis on the Ministry of Interior’s operations and wondered whether this could undermine government priorities to ensure safer streets and safe borders, which include police forces.

David Lami, Foreign Minister, told colleagues that these concerns should be taken seriously. However, the Reeves Campaign for Financial Discipline also supported, noting that work governments have been lost historically when they spend a lot of money.

It is understood that Rainer, the Minister of Housing, is concerned that a review of narrow spending may leave her ministry with insufficient funding for attempts to increase home building – including social housing – during this parliament, one of the basic goals of the labor government.

At some point, Peter Kyle, the Minister of Science, was defending the leadership of the leadership of the leadership – only to boycott Powell, according to those familiar with the discussion.

Rainer reported the increasing concerns among the deputies of work on the depth of discounts in the benefits system – which includes the root reforms that were replaced in the Governor of the Conservative Party during the “austerity” years a decade ago.

“There was a somewhat consistent message from Shabana Mahmoud, Evit Cooper, Angela Rainer, and others,” said a person close to the conversations. Each section has difficult options in the future. This does not mean that people were “complaining”, they are sympathetic to the mission of Rachel, who were only explaining that they had pressure on spending. “

The number calls 10 large batches of work representatives to the building for surroundings about the need to shake the social welfare system, with Claire Reynolds – the head of Starmer’s connection with deputies – which leads to displaying slices that show the increasing costs of generous benefits. I told the attendees that the number of economically inactive people in Britain was not a financial sustainable for the government.

The ministers plan to find most of their proposed savings to make it difficult for people to qualify for “personal independence payments” or PIPS, whose cost has doubled in half a decade.

But those meetings failed to suppress misery between many deputies. “I know the reverse reaction is wide and dangerous,” said one of the new loyal loyalists.

Brian Lesman, the new deputy labor employment, warned that cutting deficit subsidies will show a “basic shortage of humanity”, adding: “The 6 billion pounds of sterling reductions will be completely destroyed, especially for some people who are more vulnerable to weakness and deprivation in our society.”

Another member of the Labor Party said: “

One of the settlements provided is to enhance payments for people with long -term disabilities who are seen as no chance to return to the workplace, according to people close to the talks.

In the display of its slices, Reynolds told deputies that one of the five basic principles of the Starmer approach to social welfare is “the protection of people with more severe disabilities,” according to the attendees.

Discounts in the benefits caused fear between dozens of deputies because they come in the wake of plans to liquidate the international aid budget to half to push for increased spending on defense as well as discounts last summer to winter fuel payments for retirees.

At the cabinet meeting – which was attended by 27 senior ministers – some ministers asked whether taxes could be raised again as an alternative to spending discounts.

One of the government figures said that no one in the room is scattered on the need to maintain the current financial rules. “Do not rebel,” they said. “No member of the Council of Ministers stipulated not to repair luxury or maintain our financial rules.”

Starmer has warned the representatives of the Labor Party that Britain’s financial rules will not be relaxed to avoid painful luxury discounts, despite the UK increasing party pressure to follow Germany to operate borrowing taps. The Prime Minister believes that any relaxation of its self -restriction will lead to an increase in the market and forced borrowing costs.

“There was a lot of support for financial rules, but not for difficult options in the fields of individual ministers’ policy,” said one of the FT government officials.