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Downing Street’s U-turn on changes to welfare last week will make it harder to implement other policies such as potentially scrapping the two-child benefit cap, Bridget…

Kate WhannelPolitics reporterHouse of CommonsWork and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has faced repeated questions from Labour MPs over the rollout of changes to the benefit system,…

The Labour whip who resigned in protest against disability benefit cuts has said Keir Starmer’s concessions do not yet go far enough to win her over,…

Henry ZeffmanChief Political CorrespondentReuters”What an absolute bloody shambles!”When we tell you that this is the unvarnished view of a Labour MP now willing to back the…

The Labour MP, Vicky Foxcroft, has resigned as a government whip in protest at the government’s welfare plans, saying she will not be able to vote…