Comment ‘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… David Pinto-Duschinsky 22nd May, 2025, 6:00 am
News 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… Daniel Green 21st May, 2025, 9:00 am
News 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… Daniel Green 21st April, 2025, 6:00 am
News ‘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… Peter Lamb 13th April, 2025, 6:00 am
News 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… Daniel Green 2nd April, 2025, 10:30 pm
Comment 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… Emily Brothers 27th March, 2025, 7:15 am
News ‘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… Daniel Green & Tom Belger 18th March, 2025, 2:57 pm
Comment ‘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… Keiran Pedley 17th March, 2025, 6:00 am
News 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… 20th July, 2015, 9:04 am