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Labour minister tells those worried about economy to 'get stuffed'

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Torsten Bell said 'gloomsters' could 'get stuffed' (Image: X)

A Labour minister has insisted that the government is making progress towards economic stability despite growing pressure to plug a fiscal gap opened by a series of policy U-turns. Torsten Bell, treasury minister and MP for Swansea West said "gloomsters" criticising the government's economic progress since taking power just over a year ago could "get stuffed". Analyses of Labour's first year in Number 10 have tended towards the critical, with a disastrous backbench rebellion over Sir Keir Starmer's welfare bill crystallising the issues of in-party dissent and economic uncertainty that have dogged officials over the last 12 months.

Mr Bell adopted a rosier tone in a video message posted to X shortly after the one-year anniversary of the general election on July 4, urging his followers to remember a handful of "reasons to be cheerful". "The sun is shining. The sea is warming up. Wages have risen more in the first 10 months of this government than the first 10 years of the last one," he said.

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Keir Starmer marked one year in Number 10 on Friday (Image: Getty)

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The Prime Minister's personal popularity was among the lowest of any British leader after their first 12 months in office - a stark contrast from the majority with which he swept into power last summer, just short of Sir Tony Blair's 1997 landslide.

Perceptions of Labour's performance during its first year in power were unavoidably coloured by the government's offer of major concessions to its welfare bill last week, seeing off the threat of a major Commons defeat over the legislation by shelving plans to restrict eligibility for personal independent payments (PIP), the main disability benefit in England.

The original welfare proposals had been part of a package that ministers expected to save up to ￡5 billion a year, with the U-turn leaving Chancellor Rachel Reeves with no choice but to look for the money elsewhere.

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