1 hour ago Lefty Labour MPs create new headache for Starmer by refusing to back benefit cuts despite warning party must break fiscal 'doom loop' to see off Farage

Fourteen MPs who entered the Commons just last year are among the signatories of a letter demanding he and Chancellor Rachel Reeves U-turn on cuts due to be voted on next week.

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1 hour ago More than 40 Labour MPs say welfare cuts ‘impossible to support’

The backbenchers called for planned cuts to be delayed until at least the autumn.

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3 h. ago Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer

Exclusive: backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next month UK politics live – latest updatesMore than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction.The letter from parliamentarians spanning the new intake and veterans, and from the left and right of the party, sets Keir Starmer up for the biggest rebellion of his premiership when the House of Commons votes on the measures next month. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Keir Starmer told Labour faces 'existential threat' as top minister issues Reform warning

Anger at last year's decision to axe the winter fuel payment for around 10 million pensioners has spooked MPs, who have been urging Keir Starmer to change course

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24 h. ago Starmer faces backbench rebellion over Pip benefit squeeze, Labour MPs indicate

Several MPs indicated they would vote against proposed changes to the personal independence payment benefit.

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24 h. ago Labour MPs warn winter fuel could be Starmer's 'Poll Tax moment' as panic grows over Reform 'working class insurrection'

Diane Abbott compared the public backlash to that faced by Margaret Thatcher during a bruising debate in Westminster Hall.

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27 h. ago Farage may not be in office but he is very much in power, says Swinney

The First Minister was speaking in Edinburgh at a gathering of SNP candidates for next year’s Holyrood election.

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30 h. ago PMQs live: Keir Starmer faces anger after local elections as 45 Labour MPs tell him to 'act now'

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will today face Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister's Questions for the first time since both parties suffered at the local elections last week

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30 h. ago ‘You can’t do everything at same time’ says minister as Labour under pressure

Sir Keir Starmer has been facing calls to u-turn on his decision to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners.

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31 h. ago Red Wall MPs demand Starmer ‘acts now’ to reverse winter fuel cuts as backlash grows

The prime minister’s official spokesperson ruled out a U-turn on cuts to the winter fuel allowance despite disastrous local election results for Labour

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36 h. ago Louise Haigh says Labour’s ‘unpopular decisions overshadowing the good ones’

Ms Haigh said Labour should ‘properly explore’ a tax on the wealthy as an alternative to ‘cutting money from the people who can least afford it’.

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3 d. ago Labour MPs press Starmer to rethink benefits cuts after local elections

Removal of winter fuel allowance partly blamed for party’s setbacks at polls

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6 d. ago Furious Labour MPs demand Keir Starmer 'change course' and savage PM over winter fuel cuts and tax hikes after Reform's elections surge

The Prime Minister suffered a backlash from within his own ranks after Reform UK won a House of Commons by-election in Runcorn and Helsby.

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer faces huge Labour backlash after Runcorn loss as MPs vent fury

Furious Labour MP Brian Leishman said the first 10 months 'haven't been good enough' and called on Keir Starmer to change course, with the PM facing pressure in his own ranks

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8 d. ago Watch in full: Keir Starmer grilled in parliament ahead of crunch local elections

Sir Keir Starmer faced questions from MPs in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), a day before people head to the polls to vote in the local elections and the by-election in the Cheshire constituency of Runcorn and Helsby.

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8 d. ago Starmer faces growing calls to give MPs ‘final say’ on any UK

Liberal Democrat MPs have developed proposals to give Parliament a chance to scrutinise any agreement.

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8 d. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer grilled in parliament ahead of crunch local elections

Sir Keir Starmer is facing questions from MPs in this week's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), a day before people head to the polls to vote in the local elections and the by-election in the Cheshire constituency of Runcorn and Helsby.

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2 w. ago Labour MPs call for youth visa scheme as part of closer relationship with EU

The EU has pushed for such a scheme in talks with the UK.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer urges MPs to ‘lower the temperature’ in debate on gender ruling

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pushes PM on what she says is a change of stance over definition of a womanUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has urged MPs to “lower the temperature” in debating last week’s supreme court ruling on gender, as he was challenged repeatedly on the subject by Kemi Badenoch during prime minister’s questions.The Conservative leader, who took the place of her shadow equalities minister, Mims Davies, to respond to a Commons statement about the ruling on Tuesday, used all her allocation of questions to push Starmer over what she said was his change of stance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago MPs and peers call for Trump to be blocked from addressing Parliament

The US president has suggested Buckingham Palace is ‘setting a date for September’ for him to visit the UK.

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