**Keir Starmer has told MPs that he is not ruling out retaliatory tariffs against the US.** (See )

In our Guardian story today about Keir Starmer’s plans to slim down and reform central government (see )

The leftwing MP told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme earlier today that she would not be able to “look her mum in the eyes” if she supported .

Whittome added that she was not planning to rebel “for the sake of this” and said that “you cannot incentivise people out of sickness”.

She said:

> <svg viewBox="0 0 22 14" style="fill:var(--block-quote-fill);" class="dcr-scql1j">SVG Omitted</svg>It was wrong when David Cameron cut welfare, it would be wrong for us to do that now.

It’s not disabled people who crashed the economy or who are responsible for rising rents or falling living standards.

We must not scapegoat them for the failures and the political choices of  Conservative government.

**Andrew Rosindell** (Con) asks Starmer to agree to hold a judge-led inquiry into the murder of David Amess and the failures of Prevent that meant the killer was not stopped.

**Starmer** says he is meeting the family this afternoon. He wants to ensure they get answers to all the questions they have, he says.

Updated at 09.24 EDT

**Andrew Snowden** (Con) asks if Starmer will back the Tory bill to order the  Council to change its recent guidelines.

**Starmer** says the last Tory government approved these plans. He says Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, is threatening to take the Sentencing Council to court over this. He suggests Jenrick should take legal action against himself too, because the Tories were responsible.

Updated at 08.29 EDT

**David Geale** (Ind) asks if Starmer will back the Tory bill to order the  Council to change its recent guidelines.

**Starmer** says the last Tory government approved these plans. He says Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, is threatening to take the Sentencing Council to court over this. He suggests Jenrick should take legal action against himself too, because the Tories were responsible.

Updated at 08.29 EDT

**John Whittingdale** (Con) asks about his constituents who were  for reporting an asylum seekers who entered the country illegally after hiding in the bike rack on their motorhome. He says they should have been thanked for reporting this, not punished. If people are fined, they will have no incentive to alert the police, he says.

**Starmer** says he has seen some of the details of this, and is “concerned” about the story. He says the Home Office will look into this. He will update Whittingdale on what they conclude, he says.

Updated at 08.29 EDT
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