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Welfare vote: ‘Here are the failures it reveals – and three faint silver linings’

“Change isn’t easy, we’ve always known that,” a Number 10 source said just after Tuesday’s climactic welfare vote.…

Tom Belger

1st July, 2025, 10:28 pm

Analysis

Welfare vote: Which Labour MPs voted against bill or backed new amendment?

Keir Starmer may have averted the total humiliation of defeat on the government’s controversial welfare reform bill, but…

Tom Belger, Daniel Green & Luke O'Reilly

1st July, 2025, 7:15 pm

Comment

‘Welfare reforms still mean a climate of fear. Changes are too little, too late’

Let’s face facts: the government’s benefit cuts bill has been a complete disaster. Even with the recent ‘concessions’,…

Ellen Morrison

1st July, 2025, 6:00 am

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