8 h. ago Keir Starmer to call for countries to unite to eradicate ‘vile trade’ of people smuggling at summit

Sir Keir Starmer will call on the 40 countries that are gathering in London on Monday and Tuesday to work together to stop people-smuggling gangs in the same way they would terrorists

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10 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer's 'global crackdown' on people smugglers: Forty countries at London summit will aim to halt the gangs

At a world-first summit with more than 40 countries in London , the Prime Minister will urge the likes of Vietnam, Iraq and France to unite behind a new approach to 'smash' smuggling gangs.

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10 h. ago Believe me, I get it. You are RIGHT to be angry about illegal migration, KEIR STARMER writes

I know many of you are angry about illegal migration. You're right to be. British people are compassionate and fair-minded, writes Prime Minister SIR KEIR STARMER.

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10 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer's 'global crackdown' on people smugglers: Forty countries at London summit will aim to halt t

Sir Keir Starmer's 'global crackdown' on people smugglers: Forty countries at London summit will aim to halt t  Daily Mail

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66 h. ago Keir Starmer says people on benefits are 'slightly fearful' of looking for work as he defends cuts to disability cash amid Labour rebellion

The Prime Minister made the remark as he highlighted how the government would help the unemployed back into work.

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69 h. ago How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot

Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capitalThe democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in.So what’s the game? Why adopt policies that could scarcely be better calculated to prevent your re-election? Why stick to outdated fiscal rules when projections suggest they’ll make almost everyone worse off, especially those in poverty? Why impose devastating attacks on wellbeing, such as sustaining the two-child benefit cap, freezing local housing allowance and...

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3 d. ago Labour MPs threaten 'the mother of all rebellions' over benefit cuts with 'dozens' ready to revolt over Reeves' cut to cash for the disabled

More than 30 backbenchers are said to be ready to vote against plans to make it harder to claim incapacity benefits and personal independence payments (Pip).

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer tells councils to fix potholes or face losing road cash

Keir Starmer said: 'British people are bored of seeing their politicians aimlessly pointing at potholes with no real plan to fix them. That ends with us'

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8 d. ago All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statementLiving standards for all UK families are set to fall by 2030, with those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners, according to new data that raises serious questions about Keir Starmer’s pledge to make working people better off.The grim economic analysis, produced by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), comes before the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, makes her spring statement on Wednesday in which she will announce new cuts to public spending rather than increase borrowing or raise taxes, so as to keep within the government’s “iron clad” fiscal rules. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Coeliacs pushed into economic hardship due to cost of gluten

Gluten-free bread can cost six times the amount of typical bread which contains gluten, Tom Rutland told the Commons.

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1 week ago DAN HODGES: The Labour minister whose disastrous Newsnight interview has made him the living embodiment of everything people hate about Keir Starmer's government

Torsten Bell and his colleagues can wave as many charts and statistics as they like. A storm is coming. The British people have had enough.

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1 week ago Sickness benefits bill ‘devastating’, Starmer says as he defends reforms

The Government announced a raft of welfare measures it says will help bring more people back into jobs, and which will save billions of pounds.

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1 week ago Minister vows ‘life on sickness benefits to end’ for millions as Labour looks to stave off rebellion over welfare cuts

Pat McFadden said the government will ensure the welfare state is ‘fit for 21st century’

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1 week ago 1mn fewer people to secure health benefits under UK welfare reform

Government measures require a Commons vote that could provoke a rebellion by Labour MPs

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2 w. ago Labour backtracks on benefits freeze: Now plans to tackle Britain's spiralling welfare bill are set to be watered down over fears of major backbench rebellion

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been planning to freeze personal independence payments (PIP) to tackle Britain's spiralling welfare bill, but the proposals are said to have been ditched.

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2 w. ago Disabled people to get ‘right to try’ work without risk of losing benefits

In an attempt to stave off a growing Labour rebellion, the government has offered up a concession in its plan to slash the welfare bill

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2 w. ago Starmer insists there is a 'moral case' for cutting disabled benefits as he faces mounting rebellion from Labour backbenchers over plan to save £5bn

The Prime Minister denied Britain would be 'returning to austerity' under changes designed to save £5billion and get hundreds of thousands of people back into work.

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2 w. ago Government agrees to ensure bereavement leave covers miscarriages

Ministers were also able to head off a potential rebellion from Labour MPs over calls to increase paternity leave.

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2 w. ago Government agrees to ensure paid bereavement leave covers miscarriages

Ministers were also able to head off a potential rebellion from Labour MPs over calls to increase paternity leave.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer warns Labour MPs that 'unfair' welfare bill must be slashed

The Prime Minister tried to defuse a growing Labour rebellion over the issue by warning that failure to address welfare reform risked creating a 'wasted generation'.

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