10 m. ago Starmer on the brink after just a year in power: Rivals circle PM after welfare humbling

Keir Starmer's authority has been left in tatters after his extraordinary surrender to avert defeat at the hands of Labour rebels.

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16 m. ago Welfare cuts chaos: Tax rises loom within months after Keir Starmer's 'shambolic' welfare cuts climbdown

Chancellor Rachel Reeves now faces a fiscal headache as a forecast £4.8billion in welfare savings have been whittled away to nothing

Economics

30 m. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer’s benefits policy ‘disintegrated before our eyes’, claims rebel MP

Watering down of legislation represents most significant knock to prime minister’s leadership since coming into power a year ago

Economics

1 hour ago Welfare cuts chaos: Tax rises 'are more likely' after Keir Starmer's 'shambolic' welfare cuts climbdown

Chancellor Rachel Reeves now faces a fiscal headache as a forecast £4.8billion in welfare savings have been whittled away to nothing

Economics

8 h. ago From landslide to mudslide, the PM's been buried under the sludge of Labour dissent: QUENTIN LETTS on the welfare reform vote

Welfare minister Liz Kendall summoned all the resolution in her slender veins. 'This Government,' she squeaked, 'must not and will not duck the big challenges!' Three and a bit hours later: capitulation.

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9 h. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer’s benefits climbdown heaps pressure on Reeves as it will deliver ‘no savings’

Rebel Labour MPs have also lost their attempt to halt the Government’s welfare reforms

Economics

11 h. ago Keir Starmer hit by new major rebellion as 49 Labour MPs refuse to back his government's welfare cuts

Ministers had taken drastic action as furious MPs lined up in the Commons to attack the plan to make it harder to claim Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and health-related universal credit.

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11 h. ago How Labour welfare vote rebellion compares to previous revolts by MPs

Keir Starmer has suffered a blow inflicted by his own Labour MPs, but how does it stack up against previous votes under other prime ministers, including Tony Blair’s controversial policies on university tuition fees and the Iraq war?

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12 h. ago Who IS running the country, Keir? Starmer humbled as Labour rebels force him to gut benefits reforms so they will cost taxpayers MORE instead of saving £5bn

In 12 hours of carnage at Westminster, Keir Starmer's carefully-assembled truce with rebels dramatically disintegrated.

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12 h. ago Rattled Starmer scrapes through on welfare reform after last

PM suffers largest rebellion of his premiership so far, despite a climbdown in which he abandoned a key pillar of the planned cut

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12 h. ago The full list of Labour MPs who voted against Keir Starmer's welfare reform bill

In total, 44 Labour MPs voted for an amendment to scrap the controversial legislation

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12 h. ago Starmer survives by skin of his teeth – and here’s what he must do now

Sir Keir Starmer’s weaknesses have been badly exposed in a chaotic debate around his welfare reforms. He needs to start listening to his MPs, notes David Maddox

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12 h. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer’s benefits cuts plan passes after last

Rebel Labour MPs have also lost their attempt to halt the Government’s welfare reforms

Economics

13 h. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer’s benefits cuts plan scrapes through Commons after key reform abandoned

MPs debating second reading of bill in Commons ahead of crunch vote

Economics

13 h. ago Who IS running the country, Keir? Starmer humbled as Labour rebels force him to gut £5bn benefits crackdown AGAIN to survive vote

In 12 hours of carnage at Westminster, Keir Starmer's carefully-assembled truce with rebels dramatically disintegrated.

Economics

14 h. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer abandons key benefits reform in last

MPs debating second reading of bill in Commons ahead of crunch vote

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14 h. ago Starmer abandons key welfare reforms in face of Labour revolt

Plans to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment have been dropped until after a review of the benefit.

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14 h. ago Keir Starmer in full retreat as he waters down welfare cuts AGAIN in order to avoid his biggest ever rebellion as Labour MPs rail at 'Dickensian' benefits curbs

The Prime Minister has already humiliatingly weakened the package of welfare reforms by agreeing to only apply them to new claimants, as dozens of his MPs  vowed to defy him this evening.

Economics

14 h. ago Voices: There is one clear winner in the welfare debate and it isn’t Liz Kendall

The work and pensions secretary was made to defend her beleaguered benefits bill without either the prime minister or chancellor – which made for a poor show indeed, says Donald Macintyre

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15 h. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer offers rebel MPs fresh concession ahead of vote

MPs debating second reading of bill in Commons ahead of crunch vote

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