67 m. ago Kill the bill: Who are the five London Labour MPs who tried to block Keir Starmer's welfare reforms?

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

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83 m. ago Labour MP who led welfare revolt calls for wealth tax to meet £5bn cost of U

Rachael Maskell blamed the chancellor for the scale of rebellion, saying the Treasury had chosen to ‘find savings on the backs of disabled people’

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1 hour ago The UK Government should never have entertained the thought of cutting benefits

Writing in the Daily Record, Scottish Labour MP Brian Leishman says reducing welfare spending is "cruel and wicked".

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2 h. ago Welfare cuts chaos: Tax rises loom within months after Starmer's 'shambolic' benefit reforms 'saved nothing'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves now faces a £5 billion hole in her tax and spending plans

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3 h. 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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3 h. 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

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3 h. 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

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4 h. 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

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5 h. ago Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell

The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next electionThe welfare bill has gone through, but what is on the minds of most Labour MPs and supporters is how did we get into this appalling mess over disability benefits? A key factor has been the immense lack of judgment of the party’s real decision-makers, the team in the leader’s office, fuelled by their overweening arrogance. The egos of the young men cloistering Keir Starmer have clearly been inflated by the multitude of articles written by sycophantic commentators desperate to secure access to the new regime.However, the seeds of this debacle were sowed by the Treasury’s capture of the incoming government, enabling officials to bring back the same old austerity agenda of benefit cuts that they developed for George Osborne.John McDonnell is the independent MP for Hayes and Harlington. He was shadow chancellor for Labour from 2015 to 2020 Continue readi...

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10 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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12 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

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14 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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14 h. ago Disability benefit cuts: Sir Keir Starmer forced to make late concession in biggest Labour rebellion

Sir Keir Starmer was forced to abandon a key plank of his welfare reform agenda to get the legislation through its first Commons test.

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14 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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15 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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15 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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15 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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15 h. ago MPs vote to back Keir Starmer's welfare reform bill after government offers rebels more concessions

In a late climbdown as MPs prepared to vote, the Government shelved plans to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment

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15 h. ago Starmer ditches Pip benefit reforms in face of Labour revolt

Changes to eligibility for the personal independence payment (Pip) will not be made until after a review of the benefit’s assessment process.

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15 h. ago How every MP voted on the DWP welfare reform bill after backlash from Labour backbenchers

See how your MP voted on the controversial welfare bill that passed through Parliament tonight

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