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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given way to political pressure and watered down planned welfare reforms to avert ...
The PM has said the UK's benefits system is broken and fixing it is a "moral imperative", a day after a backbench Labour ...
The food subsidy programme that Ms Butler uses - called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made concessions to dissenting lawmakers from his Labour Party on planned ...
Labour party opponents of the UK government’s £5 billion ($6.8 billion) cut to disability benefits have secured enough ...
A significant number of Labour MPs are threatening to vote against the government's working-age welfare reform plan when it ...
The government’s plans for disability benefit cuts “fail on human rights checks” even with concessions, a leading charity has ...
The British prime minister had pressed ahead with the proposal, but a parliamentary vote on it was expected to fail.
The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. A Labour welfare rebel has said he was still opposed to the government’s welfare bill, which he considers a “leap in the dark” ...
Labour's controversial Welfare Reform Bill is scheduled for a second reading in the House of Commons tomorrow. By last week, 127 Labour MPs had signed an amendment to scupper the Bill, forcing Keir ...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is still facing backlash amid concern the welfare reforms will create a ‘two-tier’ benefits system ...
Exclusive: The prime minister’s controversial welfare cuts would deepen economic insecurity for disabled women and make them ...