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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall hid away during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons as Sir Keir ...
After ministers were forced to gut their welfare plans in dramatic scenes in the House of Commons last night, who is to blame for the Government's humiliation?
Cat Eccles, representing Stourbridge, refused to vote for the Bill despite a Government climbdown but Northfield and ...
Parliament has voted to approve the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which will now go into the next ...
That this government is bad at maths will not come as a surprise to many readers. Thus far, however, in its endless parade of ...
Tonight, we will find out just how many Labour welfare rebels there really are. A vote on the second reading of the government’s reforms is expected after 7pm. Liz Kendall, the Work and ...
Sir Keir Starmer gutted his controversial welfare bill on Tuesday as ​he fended off a full-scale Labour rebellion in chaotic ...
Pat McFadden says there will be a "financial consequence" but says "we will keep to the tax promises that we made in our manifesto".
The Welfare Bill, designed to get a handle on the vast amounts of taxpayer money being dished out to people who, in the words ...
MPs have voted to allow the Government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill to advance to the next stage ...
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has said there are "absolutely lessons to learn" from the government's efforts to ...
Labour has made a dramatic U-turn on its flagship welfare Bill, ditching a clause that would have made it harder to claim disability benefits.