3 h. ago Minister refuses to rule out more benefit cuts amid backlash over Liz Kendall move to slash disability payments – UK politics live

Stephen Timms, social security and disability minister, says ‘who knows what will happen in next five years’ as welfare bill is increasing even with cutsMatt Hancock, the former Tory health secretary, has just started giving evidence to the Covid inquiry as part of its inquiry into PPE procurement.There is a live feed here.Of course people who can work should work - no one is questioning that - but for my relatives, friends and neighbours, and your constituents who have the misfortune to suffer from a chronic, debilitating, long-term condition that leaves them bed-bound, unable to leave their home or crushed by mental illness, these cuts will not motivate them to get back to work, it will instead scare and humiliate them and strip them of their dignity and self respect and for some it will send them to an early grave. The blame for this will lie squarely with you and the sycophants within your party who passively support these dreadful cuts. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Michael Matheson paid £300,000 between iPad roaming scandal and quitting Holyrood

EXCLUSIVE: The veteran Nationalist will have earned £298,640 from his combined MSP, cabinet secretary's salary and golden goodbye from January 2023 when he stands down in April 2026.

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44 h. ago DARREN LEWIS: 'Wes Streeting's views on mental health are a dangerous disgrace''

The Mirror's Assistant Editor, Columnist and Football Writer, Darren Lewis, weighs in on Health Secretary Wes Streeting's 'dangerous' comments about mental health problems being over-diagnosed

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49 h. ago Politics Weekly Westminster: the cabinet revolt over benefits cuts

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss whether the backlash to the government’s planned benefit cuts will result in a U-turn. And which other departments could face eye-watering cuts?To purchase tickets for Pippa Crerar’s live conversation with the health secretary, Wes Streeting, please visit: theguardian.com/WesStreetingEvent Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Politics Weekly Westminster: The cabinet revolt over benefit cuts

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss whether the backlash to the government’s planned benefit cuts will result in a U-turn. And which other departments could face eye-watering cuts?To purchase tickets for Pippa Crerar’s live conversation with the health secretary, Wes Streeting, please visit: theguardian.com/WesStreetingEvent Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Politics Weekly Westminster: cabinet fears over benefit cuts

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss whether the backlash to the government’s planned benefit cuts will result in a U-turn. And which other departments could face eye-watering cuts?To purchase tickets for Pippa Crerar’s live conversation with the health secretary, Wes Streeting, please visit: theguardian.com/WesStreetingEvent Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Tensions grow over UK government plan to cut welfare payments

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall prepares to slash spending on health-related benefits

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54 h. ago SNP proposed candidates for Holyrood election show ‘huge’ talent, says Blackman

Former health secretary Michael Matheson is the latest MSP to announce he will not stand next year.

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65 h. ago Former health secretary Michael Matheson to step down at next election

Matheson is the latest of a number of nationalist MSPs to announce they will leave Holyrood next year.

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66 h. ago Doctors overdiagnosing mental health conditions, Streeting says, amid expected benefit reforms

Health secretary says too many people are ‘written off’ by welfare system

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67 h. ago 'Scrapping NHS England means Labour has no one to blame if it fails to deliver'

'Health Secretary Wes Streeting is impatient for change as he knows the Government will have a big problem if it doesn't slash NHS waits by the general election,' writes Mirror Political Editor Lizzy Buchan

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69 h. ago Doctors ‘overdiagnosing’ mental health conditions, says Health Secretary

Mental health charity Mind said it was important to be 'extremely careful' with the language around mental health diagnoses

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3 d. ago Streeting ‘genuinely sorry’ for anxiety over job losses amid war on quangos

The Health Secretary said there will be ‘significant’ job cuts as a result of the Government’s shake-up of NHS administration.

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3 d. ago 'I can't sugar coat the fact there will be a significant number of job losses': Wes Streeting admits NHS is 'addicted to overspending' as Health Secretary prepares to axe even more quangos

The Health Secretary said he would not 'sugar coat the fact there will be a significant number of job losses' as he embarks upon a shake-up of health service structures.

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3 d. ago NHS is ‘addicted to overspending’, warns Wes Streeting as he admits there will be significant job losses

The health secretary suggested hundreds more quangos could be in the firing line, warning that scrapping NHS England was ‘the beginning, not the end’

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3 d. ago New vape laws criticised as poll suggests 95% of UK traders think they will hurt small businesses

Retailers in Health Secretary Wes Streeting's constituency have criticised new vape laws - as a shock poll shows 95 per cent of UK traders believe they will hurt small businesses.

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3 d. ago Health Secretary declines to be drawn on benefit freeze ‘speculation’

Reports suggest the Government could be preparing to abandon plans to freezethe personal independence payment.

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3 d. ago Deploying top doctors in high joblessness areas cuts NHS wait lists – Streeting

The Health Secretary started the scheme in September, tasking the clinicians with improving care in 20 areas.

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4 d. ago How shocking shortages and missed diagnoses lead to the preventable death of six innocent people

This  week marked 250 days since Wes Streeting took the reins as Health Secretary and pledged, heroically, to 'turn our health service around'.

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4 d. ago Michael Matheson and Stephen Flynn pass vetting decisions to stand in Scottish Parliament election

Decisions around the vetting process involving Stephen Flynn and other SNP MPs for the 2026 Holyrood election have been made

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