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.…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
