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The scale of those cuts has led some Labour MPs publicly to declare for the first time today that they won't vote for the ...
A Dorset MP is warning that cuts to welfare announced in the spring statement would be "making poor people poorer". Updating ...
A rapidly drawn-up £500 million of extra savings adds fuel to the fire for Labour MPs queasy about welfare cuts.
Labour’s plan to support more people into work through cost-cutting welfare reforms has been called into question by the ...
The area with the highest proportion of people claiming health-related benefits is Liverpool Walton, at 20.3 per cent of the ...
Labour says its welfare reforms are designed to help people into work – but MPs might have to take that on faith ...
Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its assessment of his welfare reforms. In his ...
Starmer’s moral crusade is a smokescreen to impose cuts designed to get up to 1.2 million disabled people off disability benefits and cause untold misery to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain.
The Mail reported that more than 30 were in opposition, but these are the voices that have been identified so far as in dissent: In addition, Stoke-on-Trent South MP Allison Gardner had originally ...
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending Wednesday’s protest against the massive welfare cuts being imposed by ...
Typically, they face more pressure and exploitation, longer hours, higher prices or charges, they get less state support and face greater discrimination all as part of the war effort. Or, more ...
It is also unclear how MPs could even rebel, as there is no need for a vote on the welfare cuts because they do not require any new legislation. Instead, Starmer is likely to face a barrage of ...