79 m. ago Labour welfare bill latest: Starmer warned secret rebels ready to sink benefits cuts in key vote today

Commons to vote on legislation today as dozens of Labour MPs still set to rebel

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3 h. ago Labour benefits cuts latest: Starmer braces for major rebellion over crunch welfare bill vote today

More than 120 Labour backbenchers had signed an amendment that would have effectively killed the legislation

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9 h. ago Revealed: The areas where one in 20 adults get PIP benefits for depression or anxiety

MailOnline analysis of Britain's spiralling PIP bill names Labour-run constituencies of Liverpool Walton, Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, and Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare as the hotspots.

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10 h. ago Survivors open up about ‘scary’ times they were spiked as new data reveals more than one in 10 adults have been victims

Victim opens up about ‘really scary’ ordeal for his children who had to run to get help

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10 h. ago Labour benefits cuts latest: Rebels urge Starmer to ‘think again’ as PM tries to quell party mutiny

More than 130 Labour backbenchers had signed an amendment that would have effectively killed the legislation

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18 h. ago Labour benefits cuts latest: Rebels still threatening to reject welfare bill as Kendall says U

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall updated MPs on government’s changes to controversial bill

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22 h. ago Labour benefits cuts latest: 150,000 more Britons to be dragged into poverty despite Starmer’s welfare U

Around 50 MPs are still thought to be planning to rebel against the bill in a crunch vote on Tuesday

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23 h. ago Labour benefits cuts latest: Pressure piles on Starmer after Burnham tells MPs to vote down welfare bill

Around 50 MPs are still thought to be planning to rebel against the bill in a crunch vote on Tuesday

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25 h. ago Benefits rebellion LIVE: Liz Kendall to face MPs ahead of major PIP welfare vote

In a dramatic climbdown last week after a major revolt by over 100 Labour MPs, Keir Starmer agreed to protect all existing claimants from losing Personal Independence Payments

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42 h. ago Welcome to the PIP capital of the UK where one in THREE people claim the benefit

A park in the south is an unlikely home to Britain's highest level of disability benefits claimants.

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65 h. ago The hidden symptoms that reveal whether YOU are one of the millions of adults with undiagnosed dyslexia

Sue Kershaw, as one of 11 children, said that education in her family was never much of a priority. So when she struggled to spell words at school in the 1960s, she was left to 'figure it out' alone.

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3 d. ago What benefit claimants need to know about Labour’s welfare U

The climbdown will provide welcome relief to many disability benefit claimants – but cuts stay on the table

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4 d. ago Delaying welfare reform is better than bad welfare reform, prime minister

Editorial: Prior to putting before parliament its plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits, the government must first complete essential groundwork that ought to have been done already – namely, consulting with those at the sharp end of the change: people with disabilities

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4 d. ago One in four young people in England have mental health condition, NHS survey finds

Rates are three times as high in young women as in young men and mental ill health up across age groups, study showsSharp rises in rates of anxiety, depression and other disorders have led to one in four young people in England having a common mental health condition, an NHS survey shows, with young women nearly three times more likely to report them than young men.The study found that rates of such conditions in 16- to 24-year-olds have risen by more than a third in a decade, from 18.9% in 2014 to 25.8% in 2024.More than a fifth (22.6%) of adults aged 16 to 64 have a common mental health condition, up from 18.9% in 2014.More than one in four adults (25.2%) reported having had suicidal thoughts during their lifetime, including about a third of 16- 24-year-olds (31.5%) and 25- to 34-year-olds (32.9%).Self-harm rates have quadrupled since 2000 and risen from 6.4% in 2014 to 10.3% in 2024, with the highest rates among 16- to 24-year-olds at 24.6%, especially young women at 31.7%. Conti...

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4 d. ago Voices: Has Starmer’s leadership been weakened by Labour’s welfare revolt? Join The Independent Debate

Just over half of Independent readers supported welfare reform in principle, but only 28 per cent backed Starmer’s current proposals

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4 d. ago Shocking one in 4 young women have self harmed...while suicide attempts reach record highs

Data also showed a fifth of all adults aged 16 to 74 had symptoms of a common mental health problem such as depression or anxiety.

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4 d. ago Morgan McSweeney: Is welfare backlash the beginning of the end for Starmer’s right

Labour prime minister’s chief of staff under fire over crisis around plans to limit disability and sickness-related benefits writes Kate Devlin

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4 d. ago Britain's porn crackdown: Ofcom reveals the full list of adult sites you'll have to prove you're over

Major porn websites have confirmed to online regular Ofcom that they will introduce age checks by next month's deadline.

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5 d. ago Voices: If Labour cuts my PIP, I lose everything I have worked for

Rachel Charlton-Dailey receives a personal independence payment of £558 each month, which enables her to live with various debilitating and neurodivergent conditions – but, under government plans, she won’t qualify for it. Instead, she will be forced to leave her accessible bungalow and find a job she worries will push her mentally and physically to breaking point

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5 d. ago Bonnie Blue reveals what she really thinks about Andrew Tate after controversial podcast

EXCLUSIVE: Adult star, Bonnie Blue has revealed that she and Andrew Tate have something in common after recording a controversial podcast which shocked thousands

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