A Dorset MP is warning that cuts to welfare announced in the spring statement would be "making poor people poorer". Updating ...

Labour’s recently announced cuts to welfare spending may be much more severe than the government is claiming, several experts ...

A rapidly drawn-up £500 million of extra savings adds fuel to the fire for Labour MPs queasy about welfare cuts.

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 ...

Starmer’s moral crusade is a smokescreen to impose cuts designed to get up to 1.2 million disabled people off disability ...

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 working age population (equalling 13,465 people). Nearby, Birkenhead (18.8 ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s right-wing government—with just nine months in office—is now the only Labour government in history that ...

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 ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to make further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement ...

The Labour government's announcement of massive welfare cuts affecting three million people - many of the sick or disabled - sparked a ...

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 ...