3 d. ago Rachel Reeves hints at winter fuel allowance shift saying she is 'listening' to mounting disquiet from Labour MPs

Chancellor Rachel Reeves suggested she is considering the threshold at which the benefit is removed after the cut was seen as a factor in dire local election results.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer warns rebellious Labour MPs that Reform is now their 'main rival' and they have a 'moral duty' to stop Nigel Farage becoming PM

The Prime Minister lashed out at the Reform leader as 'a state-slashing, NHS-privatising Putin apologist' as faced the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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4 d. ago Starmer faces Labour MPs amid brewing disquiet over benefits cuts

The Prime Minister is said to have ‘acknowledged that MPs were having to face incredibly tough decisions’ as he met backbenchers.

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9 d. ago Gaza crisis worsening says Starmer, as minister admits UK response not enough

Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer was heckled by Labour MPs who urged further sanctions against Israel.

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1 week ago Labour benefits backlash rages as MPs warn Cabinet minister that cuts will 'devastate lives'

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall came under fire from her own side as she took questions in the House.

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1 week ago UK politics live: Starmer warned he is ‘laying the groundwork for Farage’ after immigration speech

Labour MPs condemn Starmer’s speech as ‘shameful and dangerous’

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1 week ago DAN HODGES: Labour MPs tell me Starmer is facing open rebellion. And I'm stunned at who they'd want to replace him as Prime Minister

Forget the hype surrounding the Trump trade deal, writes DAN HODGES. In the wake of the recent disastrous local election and by-election defeats, the patience of Labour MPs has snapped.

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves insists welfare system needs reform amid disquiet on benefit cuts

Some 42 backbenchers said the planned cuts were ‘impossible to support’ in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer.

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2 w. ago Lefty Labour MPs create new headache for Starmer by refusing to back benefit cuts despite warning party must break fiscal 'doom loop' to see off Farage

Fourteen MPs who entered the Commons just last year are among the signatories of a letter demanding he and Chancellor Rachel Reeves U-turn on cuts due to be voted on next week.

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2 w. ago Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer

Exclusive: backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next month UK politics live – latest updatesMore than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction.The letter from parliamentarians spanning the new intake and veterans, and from the left and right of the party, sets Keir Starmer up for the biggest rebellion of his premiership when the House of Commons votes on the measures next month. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Starmer faces backbench rebellion over Pip benefit squeeze, Labour MPs indicate

Several MPs indicated they would vote against proposed changes to the personal independence payment benefit.

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2 w. ago Labour MPs warn winter fuel could be Starmer's 'Poll Tax moment' as panic grows over Reform 'working class insurrection'

Diane Abbott compared the public backlash to that faced by Margaret Thatcher during a bruising debate in Westminster Hall.

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2 w. ago PMQs live: Keir Starmer faces anger after local elections as 45 Labour MPs tell him to 'act now'

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will today face Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister's Questions for the first time since both parties suffered at the local elections last week

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2 w. ago Louise Haigh says Labour’s ‘unpopular decisions overshadowing the good ones’

Ms Haigh said Labour should ‘properly explore’ a tax on the wealthy as an alternative to ‘cutting money from the people who can least afford it’.

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2 w. ago Labour MPs press Starmer to rethink benefits cuts after local elections

Removal of winter fuel allowance partly blamed for party’s setbacks at polls

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3 w. ago Furious Labour MPs demand Keir Starmer 'change course' and savage PM over winter fuel cuts and tax hikes after Reform's elections surge

The Prime Minister suffered a backlash from within his own ranks after Reform UK won a House of Commons by-election in Runcorn and Helsby.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer faces huge Labour backlash after Runcorn loss as MPs vent fury

Furious Labour MP Brian Leishman said the first 10 months 'haven't been good enough' and called on Keir Starmer to change course, with the PM facing pressure in his own ranks

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