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Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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‘The benefits system has become unaffordable – it needs to be reformed’

Local people are telling me that they have worked hard all their lives, contributing to a system that…

Jo White

25th June, 2025, 11:49 am

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Welfare reform: ‘So much for new Labour MPs being ultra-loyal Starmtroopers’

Some 59 of the 108 first signatories of the reasoned amendment opposing welfare cuts are new Labour MPs.…

Tom Belger

25th June, 2025, 8:20 am

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Welfare reform bill: Full text of reasoned amendment and list of rebel Labour MPs

More than 100 Labour MPs have signed a “reasoned amendment” seeking to thwart the government’s controversial welfare reform…

Daniel Green & Tom Belger

24th June, 2025, 10:00 am

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