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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.
Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its assessment of his welfare reforms. In his ...
Labour says its welfare reforms are designed to help people into work – but MPs might have to take that on faith ...
Labour’s plan to support more people into work through cost-cutting welfare reforms has been called into question by the ...
Labour’s recently announced cuts to welfare spending may be much more severe than the government is claiming, several experts ...
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.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending Wednesday’s protest against the massive welfare cuts being imposed by ...
While the Labour Party clearly talked about welfare reform in its manifesto, it never signalled it would make these sorts of cuts to the benefits bill. But the environment has changed. Growth is ...
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 ...
The Scottish Labour leader says he backs the reforms despite warnings they will push 250,000 people into poverty.