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…
Welfare: Labour criticised for not consulting on disability and poverty in policymaking forum for next manifesto
Labour has been accused of seeking to constrain party discussion over future welfare policy by a member of…
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…
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…
‘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…
