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Exclusive: Charities say changes fail to account for conditions that are progressive or have varying symptoms“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by the planned universal credit cuts, contrary to government claims that they will be pr…
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit capChildren in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has …
Revised bill passed after UK government rowed back on cuts will mean fewer rather than more people in relative poverty in 2030The changes the government made to the welfare bill in the face of a mounting rebellion over its proposals to cut disability b…
Bridget Phillipson stresses that changes to welfare bill after threatened rebellion by backbench MPs have come at a costDowning Street’s U-turn on changes to welfare last week will make it harder to implement other policies such as potentially scrappin…
Rose Jones was told to repay £2,145 after she unwittingly breached ‘draconian’ carer’s allowance regulationsA young carer who had looked after her disabled mother since she was eight said she was “amazed” and “overwhelmed” after Guardian readers paid o…
After an internal welfare bill rebellion and excluded Labour figures regrouping, the PM is forced to realise the left may have never gone awayA year ago, many around Keir Starmer believed the Labour left had been sealed in a tomb. The suspension of Jer…
Exclusive: Chancellor says she never considered resigning and warns ‘there are costs’ to welfare bill U-turnRachel Reeves has said it is impossible for her to rule out tax rises in the autumn budget and insisted she never thought about quitting despite…
It was wrongly assumed 2024’s intake would do as they were told. Now there are fears they have a taste for disobedienceAs Labour officials sounded warnings to Downing Street last month about the scale of the rebellion against the government’s welfare b…
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban groupStreeting says he has to go to the Commons to make a statement to MPs.But first he introduces Rachel Reeves, saying that she has put an extra £29bn into the NHS.It is thanks…
Keir Starmer says Downing Street should have engaged more with Labour MPs and repeats support for Rachel ReevesUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has admitted No 10 “didn’t get the process right” in handling the government’s controversial we…