3 h. ago Defiant Starmer warns Labour welfare rebels to ‘read the room’ as Rayner finally backs the PM

A tetchy prime minister has hit out after the rebellion of Labour MPs against his welfare reforms grew despite warnings it could bring down the government.

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6 h. ago Rayner backs beleaguered Starmer over benefits reform as Labour rebellion grows

The deputy prime minister insisted the government will not back down over its planned vote on welfare reform next Tuesday

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6 h. ago Angela Rayner says vote on welfare bill will go ahead on Tuesday despite growing rebellion – UK politics live

Deputy prime minister says ‘we will go ahead’ as more Labour MPs join opposition to plan to cut universal credit and PipKemi Badenoch has said it would be “pathetic” for Keir Starmer to postpone the vote on the UC and Pip bill. She posted this on social media, as a comment on the tweet from Kitty Donaldson. (See 11.22am.)This is pathetic. Starmer must not pull this bill. We’ve offered to support him in the national interest if our reasonable conditions are met.If he pulls the bill, it proves Labour isn’t serious about fiscal responsibility. If Labour backbenchers are too scared to deliver welfare changes that make only limited savings, how can they solve bigger problems like the national debt?There is a view forming among ministers and PPS’ that the government will have to pull the welfare bill.However, the message from the centre is very clear it will go ahead regardless of the opposition from MPs because the issue has to be forced.There is widespread speculation in Government that...

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6 h. ago Vote on welfare cuts 'will go ahead' on Tuesday, says Angela Rayner

The Deputy Prime Minister said the UK Government will push ahead with its bill despite over 100 Labour MPs signing an amendment to block it.

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6 h. ago Angela Rayner defies 120 Labour MPs by refusing to pull showdown Commons vote on benefit cuts

There are rumours the government was set to pull the proposed welfare reforms bill amid a major Labour rebellion

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6 h. ago Conservatives fear welfare reforms will not head off ‘tax rises’ this autumn

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride warned that ‘tax rises are coming’ in this autumn’s budget, opposite Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

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6 h. ago Angela Rayner brutally savages Nigel Farage's 'sweetheart deal' with billionaires

Angela Rayner said she agreed with Labour Kanishka Narayan that Nigel Farage would 'betray' British workers by offering a 'sweetheart deal' to overseas billionaires

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7 h. ago Angela Rayner says vote on welfare bill will go ahead on Tuesday as she faces Mel Stride at PMQs – UK politics live

Deputy prime minister says ‘we will go ahead’ as more Labour MPs join opposition to plan to cut universal credit and PipKemi Badenoch has said it would be “pathetic” for Keir Starmer to postpone the vote on the UC and Pip bill. She posted this on social media, as a comment on the tweet from Kitty Donaldson. (See 11.22am.)This is pathetic. Starmer must not pull this bill. We’ve offered to support him in the national interest if our reasonable conditions are met.If he pulls the bill, it proves Labour isn’t serious about fiscal responsibility. If Labour backbenchers are too scared to deliver welfare changes that make only limited savings, how can they solve bigger problems like the national debt?There is a view forming among ministers and PPS’ that the government will have to pull the welfare bill.However, the message from the centre is very clear it will go ahead regardless of the opposition from MPs because the issue has to be forced.There is widespread speculation in Government that...

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7 h. ago Labour welfare rebellion live: Rayner defends benefit reforms as Starmer vows vote will go ahead

Angela Rayner stepping in for Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs

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9 h. ago Megapoll finds Nigel Farage is on track for huge election win with 377 Reform MPs

Reform would have an outright majority of more than 50 seats if the next national vote was held today, the MRP poll of 5,000 people by PLMR and Electoral Calculus shows.

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30 h. ago 'Like being savaged by a dead sheep': JK Rowling brutally mocks Lib Dem MP who claims she's 'desperate for attention and relevance' with her trans stance

The Harry Potter author mocked Ben Maguire, his party's shadow attorney general, over his comments in the House of Commons last night.

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31 h. ago Voices: I’m leaving the UK because of how Labour has treated wealthy non

Multi-millionaire businesswoman Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland – who is moving from her Kent castle to Italy, for the more favourable tax jurisdiction – says Labour is running out of time to rethink its flagship plan to scrap non-dom status and that Nigel Farage’s idea for the super-rich to pay £250,000 for a Britannia Card doesn’t go far enough

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50 h. ago What is Reform UK's proposed Britannia Card? Nigel Farage's 'bonanza for billionaires' explained

The party said the policy would ‘encourage the return of wealth and talent to the United Kingdom’

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55 h. ago Farage’s ‘bonanza for billionaires’ would cost UK £34bn a year, warns tax expert

Reform UK believes the plans for a Britannia card will make the UK ‘incredibly attractive’ to the wealthy, but tax expert Dan Neidle has warned it will leave a massive black hole

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55 h. ago ‘Billionaires’ bonanza’: Labour derides Reform plan to offer tax exemptions to wealthy

Nigel Farage defends policy to top up poorest workers from £250,000 ‘landing fee’ on rich UK newcomersUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesNigel Farage has defended his plans to attract wealthy individuals to the UK with a £250,000 fee for 10 years of residency and a special tax regime, as Labour called it a “billionaires’ bonanza”.In a press conference in London, the leader of Reform UK said he wanted to win back very wealthy people leaving the country, and encourage them to spend and create jobs in the UK. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Farage’s ‘Robin Hood tax’ would cost UK £34bn a year, warns tax expert

Reform UK believes the plans for a Britannia card will make the UK ‘incredibly attractive’ to the wealthy, but tax expert Dan Neidle has warned it will leave a massive black hole

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59 h. ago Nigel Farage's Britannia Card plot to help billionaires avoid taxes mocked

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is planning to let wealthy business tycoons pay £250,000 for a so-called Britannia Card, which would excuse them from taxes on overseas earnings and inheritance tax

Economics

59 h. ago Tory defects to Reform UK on flagship council as Nigel Farage eyes gains in London

Tory defects to Reform UK on flagship council as Nigel Farage eyes gains in London  London Evening Standard

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60 h. ago Tory defects to Reform UK on flagship London council as Nigel Farage eyes political gains across the capital

EXCLUSIVE: Westminster councillor Laila Cunningham is quitting the Conservatives saying she can no longer ‘defend failure’

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2 d. ago Reform unveils plan to top up poorest workers from £250,000 fee on rich UK newcomers

Nigel Farage will outline Britannia Card policy that could give the low paid £600 to £1,000 extra a yearReform UK are to offer wealthy foreigners and returning British expats a bespoke tax regime in exchange for a one-off payment of £250,000 with all funds collected redistributed to Britain’s lowest-paid workers, the party claims,.The proposal, dubbed the Britannia Card, is due to be unveiled by party leader Nigel Farage later this week. It promises a 10-year residence permit and a return to the controversial “remittance basis” of taxation, allowing cardholders to shield overseas income from UK tax and avoid inheritance tax entirely. Continue reading...

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