Analysis PIP: Reeves and Kendall members’ picks for chop in reshuffle – even before U-turn Ministers and aides will be hoping a significant retreat on welfare reforms today will win round enough rebels… Tom Belger 27th June, 2025, 6:25 am
News Welfare reform vote: 70 councillors in hardest-hit region write to Kendall More than 70 Labour politicians in part of the region likely to be hardest hit by welfare reform… Tom Belger 26th June, 2025, 2:26 pm
Analysis Welfare reform bill: Full text of reasoned amendment and list of rebel Labour MPs More than 120 Labour MPs have signed a “reasoned amendment” seeking to thwart the government’s controversial welfare reform… Daniel Green & Tom Belger 26th June, 2025, 9:00 am
Analysis 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
Analysis Welfare reform bill: MPs on why they back the amendment – or back Kendall Keir Starmer faces one of the biggest rebellions his administration has seen yet, with rebel numbers into three… Tom Belger, Luke O'Reilly & Daniel Green 24th June, 2025, 8:30 am
News Will Labour’s missions follow online dashboard in being quietly shelved? Detailed documents outlining Labour’s missions have been deleted from the party’s website, begging the question of whether they… Luke O'Reilly & Tom Belger 17th June, 2025, 3:16 pm
News Labour London mayor candidate: Should Khan stand again – and who else might? Olympic gold medallist and former Tory MP Seb Coe has been floated today as the potential Conservative candidate… Luke O'Reilly, Tom Belger & Daniel Green 16th June, 2025, 10:30 pm
Analysis The big Spending Review winners and losers among departments and ministers New figures published as part of the government’s Spending Review lay bare stark divides in the fate of… Tom Belger 11th June, 2025, 2:17 pm
Analysis Spending Review: Labour tried looking prudent. Do we now want to look lavish? For much of this government’s life, ministers have tried hard to look as prudent and downbeat as possible… Tom Belger 11th June, 2025, 9:02 am
News Interview: Burnham on party factions, spending review and scrapping the whip “A Northerner in London, this is what happens,” jokes Andy Burnham as we hurl ourselves back off a… Tom Belger 10th June, 2025, 10:31 pm