‘Welfare reform is not a betrayal of Labour values – it’s their fulfilment’
The creation of the modern welfare state by the 1945 Labour government remains one of the party’s proudest…
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Welfare reform: List of Labour MPs prepared to rebel on benefit changes
Around a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party are thought to have expressed concerns around the government’s welfare…
50,000 back MP’s petition for a wealth tax to raise cash instead of welfare cuts
A petition by a left-wing Labour MP calling for the government to abandon its welfare reforms in favour…
‘There are alternatives to cutting PIP. Why aren’t we using them?’
I don’t envy the frontbench. They inherited an appalling economic legacy, with public debt at almost 100% of…
Spring Statement and welfare reforms ‘will lose votes’, Labour members say – as poll shows most back a wealth tax
The vast majority of Labour members expect the government’s Spring Statement and welfare reforms will cause the party…
Spring Statement: ‘Government should break the disability-poverty link, not entrench it’
As a Liverpudlian who moved to Middlesbrough to study during the Thatcher years, I was reminded last week…
‘The rhetoric’s turned people’s stomachs’: MPs challenge Kendall over welfare cuts
A string of Labour MPs and union leaders have challenged the Work and Pensions Secretary in the Commons…
‘The public doesn’t think welfare works – but they are more compassionate than sometimes believed’
Let’s start with an obvious point. The public does not think the benefits system works. Ipsos polling makes…
Osborne seeks to exploit Labour splits with call for cross-party welfare reform support
George Osborne has sought to exploit the divisions in the Labour Party that have emerged over welfare this…
