Browsing: Welfare

Good morning. Tomorrow it will be a year since the general election, and on Saturday it will be one year from the day when Keir Starmer…

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he “did not engage” properly with Labour MPs, leading to a series of damaging U-turns on his flagship welfare reforms.On Tuesday,…

Keir Starmer has been forced to defend his chancellor after a day in which the bitter recriminations over Labour’s welfare bill fiasco appeared to leave Rachel…

Cabinet minister declines to rule out tax rises after welfare concessions, saying there’ll be ‘financial consequences’A cabinet minister has declined to rule out tax rises after…

Labour’s welfare bill was passed by 335 votes to 260 on Tuesday after the prime minister offered rebel backbenchers a last-minute concession on personal independence payment…

Keir Starmer has been forced to abandon the central plank of his welfare bill to get it past its first Commons hurdle, with a dramatic climbdown…

The government has won a vote on its benefits bill by 75 votes, but only after offering huge last-minute concessions to Labour rebels.The government had already…

Keir Starmer is set to offer Labour backbenchers a further concession over disability benefits in a last-ditch attempt to limit the largest rebellion of his premiership…

Will welfare bill go through? Pippa Crerar on latest state of playThis is from Pippa Crerar, the Guardian’s political editor, with her latest take on the…

“I’ve not had as much quality time with my colleagues since the Brexit wars,” a minister told me with a wry smile.A remark that gets to…