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MPs have backed the government’s welfare reforms after ministers signalled an eleventh-hour U-turn to appease Labour rebels.
The government has offered an eleventh hour concession to limit the scale of a Labour revolt over welfare reforms. Under the ...
A Labour MP has said she “cannot accept” welfare plans that will mean 150,000 more Britons end up in poverty. Dr Marie ...
A Labour MP has said that the government’s welfare bill will impose “Dickensian cuts” on disabled people, and that it belongs ...
Keir Starmer infamously dismissed the protests of his MPs concerned about the government’s flagship welfare bill as mere ...
By Kinvara Carey, General Manager of the Natural Source Waters Association. This weekend the Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting announced plans for a new health standard to make an average ...
Jonathan Reynolds has urged Labour MPs to back the government’s welfare plan amid a looming rebellion, insisting the proposed ...
Ministers had hoped that a series of concessions would have been to win over Labour rebels when MPs vote on welfare changes.
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A Labour MP has called on the government to win back the “trust” of disabled people after ministers pushed ahead with welfare ...
The work and pensions secretary has described the government’s welfare reforms as “essential”. Liz Kendall delivered a ...
The comments come after Andy Burnham, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, urged MPs to vote against the government’s ...