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Exclusive: Survey commissioned by children’s charities shows UK voters want to see families prioritisedCharities and a Labour-aligned pressure group are ramping up calls on Keir Starmer to scrap the two-child limit on benefits, as polling shows support…
Keir Starmer did not deny a rethink of benefit cut to 10 million pensioners blamed for Labour’s electoral lossesDowning Street is actively investigating changes to the controversial winter fuel payment cut over growing concerns about the policy’s deep …
Labour members from Leeds West and Pudsey to write letter to chancellor over plans to reduce Pip paymentsRachel Reeves’ local Labour party will call for the chancellor to abandon her plans to cut disability benefits as rebellion among MPs over the poli…
Commons committee recommends independent scrutiny of failures and legal duty to safeguard those at most riskA cross-party committee of MPs has called for greater protections for vulnerable benefit claimants after hundreds of cases of deaths and serious…
Work and pensions secretary calls for groups to engage as she scraps capability assessment and overhauls Pip applicationLiz Kendall is to begin an overhaul of the disability benefit assessment process long decried by campaigners as cruel, calling on gr…
Exclusive: Backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next monthMore than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a paus…
Exclusive: Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cutsUK politics live – latest updatesThe government’s planned disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families who are already in poverty, acc…
Polling finds two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy and would not see it as a sign of weakness Downing Street has been accused of being “completely tone deaf” over the damage wreaked by winter fuel cuts as new polling suggested two-th…
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereIn his interviews this morning Wes Streeting, who is seen as a Blairite, said that if the Labour government did not deliver change for voters, it would be out. (See 9.08am.) According to Poli…
In today’s newsletter: Can a partial U-turn on the winter fuel allowance help the party set a new agenda – and keep support for Nigel Farage at bay?Good morning. After Reform UK’s resounding success in last week’s local elections, Keir Starmer has face…