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Work and pensions secretary says Benefits crackdown will save £5bn by 2030 but disability charities say cuts are ‘immoral’. This live blog is closedQ: Why have you changed your mind on this?Badenoch says she has not changed her mind. As a member of the…
Changes could deny benefits to people who need help to wash or to remember to go to the toiletKeir Starmer will unveil drastic cuts to disability benefits on Tuesday, despite deep opposition from Labour MPs and poverty campaigners, and warnings from ec…
Changes could deny benefits to people who need help to wash or to remember to go to the toiletKeir Starmer will unveil drastic cuts to disability benefits on Tuesday, despite deep opposition from Labour MPs and poverty campaigners, and warnings from ec…
Charlie Bean says OBR forecasts are ‘flaky’ and cautions against trying to hit targets five years awayThe former Bank of England deputy governor Charlie Bean has warned the chancellor against making kneejerk cuts in next week’s spring statement to try …
A BRIT TikToker banged up in a hellhole Thai prison where she is “fed rat meat” has revealed the truth behind her benefit-scrounging claims.
Ellis Matthews, 32, was lo…
‘We have more cards we can play,’ foreign secretary tells MPs as he says G7 foreign ministers found ‘common ground’ when meeting last weekThe Reform UK press conference is about to start. There is a live feed here.Nigel Farage is going to announce that…
Party’s longest-serving MP says she agrees with Ed Balls and Andy Burnham, who have criticised planned welfare cutsUK politics live – latest updatesCutting benefits for disabled people is “not a Labour thing to do”, Diane Abbott has said, as a backlash…
Many MPs will feel that pushing people in to poverty to balance the books is not what they came into politics to doThis week may come to be the moment when Keir Starmer’s reputation as the hard man of the Labour party was tested to its limits. How far …
Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare interventionCutting benefits for disabled people will push more people into poverty and make it harder for them to get into work, the chief…
PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving more than 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse offKeir Starmer is to defy growing anger by driving through welfare cuts for some of the UK’s most severely disabled people, with an…