Richard Burgon: ‘Labour MPs must reject massive cut still in disability bill’
When MPs vote on the final stages of the disability benefits Bill this week, one major decision remains:…
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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.…
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…
‘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…
Labour’s tax cuts rebellion – and the “principled” Tory minister who resigned over FOBTs
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Labour can stop rowing about whether…
Smith succeeds at the start – MPs looked to Iraq as crown slipped away from Eagle
Three becomes two. Angela Eagle’s withdrawal from the Labour leadership race finally gives us the head-to-head contest which…
Eagle: Britain was right to attack Libya
Angela Eagle stood by voting against an investigation into Iraq ahead of the summer leadership contest. The leadership…
Smith: My regret over welfare bill vote
Owen Smith has said he regrets abstaining on the controversial Tory Welfare Bill at second reading last summer,…
Owen Smith: Labour’s new challenger from the soft left
Owen Smith is a relative newcomer in the Labour family – but the Welsh MP, elected in 2010…
5 things we learned from ‘The Corbyn earthquake’
It already might seem like a summer from the distant past, but Labour’s leader contest only came to…
