8 h. ago Brian Leishman: Scottish MP among three suspended by Starmer over 'persistent breaches of party discipline'

All three voted against the Government’s planned welfare reforms earlier this month.

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8 h. ago Brian Leishman: Scottish MP among four suspended by Starmer over 'persistent breaches of party discipline'

All voted against the Government’s planned welfare reforms earlier this month.

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9 h. ago Keir Starmer suspends Labour rebels after repeated backbench revolts

Labour prime minister seeks to reassert his authority

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12 h. ago Kendall defends welfare reform plan after Government forced to ditch key parts

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall insisted she was motivated by getting people into work rather than cutting costs.

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42 h. ago Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan

Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this?There is a longstanding practice in UK politics and media to force disabled people to fight for their basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.With the government’s welfare reform bill just passed by MPs, this has felt all the more stark. In the last week alone, the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, has used a speech to declare she does not “believe” that one in four people are disabled, as if the Equality Act were based on vibes. “Twenty-eight million people in Britain are working to pay the wages and benefits of 28 million others,” she went on. “The rider is as big as the horse.”Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist. She is the author of Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life Continue reading...

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63 h. ago DWP update over Blue Badges and free buses for PIP claimants after welfare reform

The government has announced that people who currently receive Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and use the Blue Badge scheme will not be affected by the upcoming welfare reforms

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2 d. ago Major PIP and Blue Badge update to claimants as welfare reforms unveiled

PIP claimants worried that controversial welfare reforms will soon strip them of their Blue Badge and free bus travel have been issued an important update by the DWP

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6 d. ago New DWP plans to help people with arthritis into work as part of welfare reforms

The Labour Government has outlined new measures to help more people with health issues into work.

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7 d. ago Who are the 47 Labour MPs who rebelled in the welfare reforms vote?

Mother of the House Diane Abbott, former minister Dawn Butler, and Andy McDonald were among those who voted against the Government.

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7 d. ago Government sees off backbench rebellion as welfare reforms clear Commons

‘If you can work, you should,’ social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told MPs before they voted on the welfare reforms.

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7 d. ago Disabled will lose £3,000 a year in 'stain on the Labour Party' DWP cuts, MPs told

Labour backbencher Rachael Maskell told the Commons that welfare reforms that would cut the Universal Credit health aspect would be a 'stain on this great party'

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7 d. ago Disabled will lose £3,000 a year in 'stain on Labour Party' benefit cuts, MPs told

Labour backbencher Rachael Maskell told the Commons that welfare reforms that would cut the Universal Credit health aspect would be a 'stain on this great party'

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7 d. ago Now UN panel wades into Labour's benefits civil war complaining reforms will boost poverty as Starmer faces demands for MORE concession

The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights has written to the government demanding more information on the impact of the overhaul.

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7 d. ago Scottish Labour MP to vote against welfare reforms despite Keir Starmer climbdown

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Leishman warned the UK Government is "still proposing enormous cuts" to welfare.

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8 d. ago Ministers face fresh challenge to welfare reforms in Wednesday votes

Labour MP for York Central Rachael Maskell accused the Government of being ‘stubborn’ in its welfare reform efforts.

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8 d. ago OBR: Vulnerable UK faces 'daunting' threats to stability of public finances after welfare climbdown

Successive governments’ efforts to put the UK public finances have met with only “limited and temporary success” says watchdog

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9 d. ago Before the government overhauls special educational needs, lessons must be learnt

Editorial: The welfare reform bill fiasco has made rethinking education, health and care plans infinitely more difficult. Any reforms must clearly be for the benefit of the recipients – not driven by the Treasury’s need to make savings

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9 d. ago Nigel Farage says flaws in Reform UK’s candidate vetting process were not his fault – UK politics live

Farage says any errors in the runup to the 2024 general election cannot be laid at his door as he was not party leader at the timeThe Conservatives will try to change the government’s welfare Bill to tighten up access to personal independence payments (Pip) and universal credit, PA Media reports. PA says:Kemi Badenoch will pledge that the Tories are “now the only party committed to serious welfare reform” after Keir Starmer shelved plans to restrict eligibility for Pip in the face of a backbench revolt this week.The Tories will look to lay amendments to the legislation – set to be renamed the universal credit bill – and party leader Badenoch is due to deliver a speech on welfare on Thursday. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Blue Badges and free bus travel changes confirmed by DWP after new PIP rules

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that it is not planning to change the extra support services PIP claimants are entitled to in the face of upcoming welfare reforms

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9 d. ago Minister won’t rule out support cuts for children with EHCPs amid Send overhaul – UK politics live

Stephen Morgan, the early education minister, would not confirm every child who has an EHCP would continue to keep the same provisionsThe Conservatives will try to change the government’s welfare Bill to tighten up access to personal independence payments (Pip) and universal credit, PA Media reports. PA says:Kemi Badenoch will pledge that the Tories are “now the only party committed to serious welfare reform” after Keir Starmer shelved plans to restrict eligibility for Pip in the face of a backbench revolt this week.The Tories will look to lay amendments to the legislation – set to be renamed the universal credit bill – and party leader Badenoch is due to deliver a speech on welfare on Thursday. Continue reading...

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