Labour voters would pick welfare and climate cuts over police or pension cuts
Labour voters would choose cuts to climate change initiatives and welfare over cuts to policing or pensions, a…
Benefits
‘There is cross-party consensus for reforming our benefits system’
Too many people with mental and physical health problems are not in work. If the Labour Government is…
Starmer vows ‘sweeping changes’ to tackle ‘bulging benefits bill’
Keir Starmer has vowed to implement “sweeping changes” to deal with the “bulging benefits bill blighting our society”…
Budget: Labour warned two child benefit cap to hit 900,000 more children by 2030
Labour faces fresh pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap following its first Budget, after new figures showed…
Budget 2024: The tax rises and spending plans to expect as PM revises bus fare cap and reveals back-to-work package
Labour’s first Budget since returning to power is fast approaching, with many of the policies Chancellor Rachel Reeves…
Starmer pledges ‘raw honesty’ and does not commit to reverse two-child cap
Keir Starmer has pledged to approach the problems facing the country with a “raw honesty”, saying his government…
‘Braverman’s call to scrap two-child cap rings alarm bells for Labour in power’
Over the weekend, Suella Braverman – one of the most right-wing MPs in the Conservative Party – dropped…
‘Frank’s poverty mission lives on at his charity – but he’d scrap two-child cap’
Frank Field has long been a hero of mine, and he will remain so for the rest of…
‘Sunak’s claim of a ‘sick note culture’ is immoral and deeply flawed’
The Prime Minister’s speech on welfare reform last Friday was not only high on rhetoric and low on…
‘Liz Kendall’s DWP shakeup is bold – but should be even bolder’
This week Demos hosted Liz Kendall in her first major speech as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary. Speaking…
