3 h. ago Sadiq Khan leads huge Labour revolt against Keir Starmer's benefit cuts as Kemi Badenoch offers to save PM

City Hall warned that disabled Londoners face losses of between £3,800 and £5,700 a year if Labour reforms approved

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5 h. ago Labour rebels hit back at Keir Starmer as DWP disability benefit cut revolt grows

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to press on with the controversial reforms to disability benefits - despite being rocked by a revolt of at least 119 Labour MPs

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5 h. ago Sadiq Khan slams Keir Starmer's benefit cuts for 'destroying safety net for too many disabled Londoners'

City Hall warned that disabled Londoners face losses of between £3,800 and £5,700 a year

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8 h. ago Starmer risks humiliating defeat as he vows to press on with benefit cuts in face of revolt by 100 Labour MPs

MPs in London backing the rebel move against the welfare reforms include Dame Meg Hillier, Florence Eshalomi, Ruth Cadbury, Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler

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8 h. ago Could Starmer lose the welfare vote — and what happens if he does?

Enough Labour MPs have signalled their opposition to potentially defeat the government’s plans

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9 h. ago All the Greater Manchester MPs voting against the disability benefit cuts so far

More than 100 MPs have come out against the bill

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12 h. ago Why defeat on unpopular welfare reforms could prove to be the end of Starmer

After less than a year as prime minister Sir Keir Starmer is facing a rebellion on a crucial policy which could leave him severely weakened or even force him out, warns David Maddox

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17 h. ago Scots Labour MP urges colleagues to vote against DWP benefit cuts next week

Brian Leishman said asked his fellow Labour MPs "to do the right thing and stop the proposed changes to our welfare system."

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27 h. ago DWP chief Liz Kendall warned disability benefit cuts will lead to 'appalling poverty'

The warning came as the Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall prepared to defend the controversial measures at a behind-closed-doors meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party

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27 h. ago DWP disability benefit cuts rebellion as over 70 Labour MPs reject plans

The Mirror understands the Labour backbenchers - including 10 chairs of Commons committees - have signed an amendment rejecting the cuts to disability benefits

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27 h. ago DWP disability benefit cuts shock as plans rejected by over 70 Labour MPs

The Mirror understands the Labour backbenchers - including 10 chairs of Commons committees - have signed an amendment rejecting the cuts to disability benefits

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29 h. ago Labour MPs ready to rebel against welfare reforms despite deselection threat

MPs claim that they have been threatened with suspension from the party and even deselection ahead of crunch welfare vote next week

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61 h. ago What radical abortion law changes mean for Greater Manchester

An amendment to decriminalise women ending their own pregnancies was approved by MPs this week - here's what that means for Greater Manchester

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4 d. ago How Greater Manchester's 27 MPs voted in the assisted dying bill

A number of the region's high-profile MPs voted against the bill

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4 d. ago Assisted dying Bill passed by MPs after landmark House of Commons vote

The law proposes that terminally ill adults in England and Wales with fewer than six months to live would be able to apply for an assisted death

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4 d. ago Labour Government frontbencher resigns over proposed disability benefit cuts

Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a Government whip because she did not believe the proposed cuts “should be part of the solution”.

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5 d. ago Blow for Keir Starmer as Labour frontbencher quits over disability benefit cuts

Vicky Foxcroft said "with a heavy heart" she would be giving up her role as a government whip, saying changes she'd wanted to see made to the welfare reform had not happened.

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5 d. ago Labour rebels say ‘you can’t suspend us all’ as they hit back at threats over benefits cuts vote

Whips have even tried to recruit popular Labour MPs to convince their colleagues to back the measures in a bid to stave off the rebellion

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5 d. ago Welfare reform legislation to be debated next month, MPs told

The Government has faced backlash from some Labour MPs over the ‘damaging disability benefit cuts’, which it said could save up to £5 billion a year.

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5 d. ago Voices: ‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts

Our community says disability benefit cuts will ‘break people,’ leave carers ‘destitute,’ and cause a human cost many say is being ignored

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