Some 126 Labour backbenchers had signed an amendment that would have halted the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill in ...

It’s been one year since Labour returned to power in a landslide victory that appeared to show the party had turned over a ...

Concessions to welfare rebels may have saved the government, but there remain lessons for the Prime Minister to learn.

Sir Keir Starmer's concessions to his backbenchers are estimated to cost £3bn of the £5bn the chancellor hoped to save from ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said his welfare reforms now strike “the right balance” after he U-turned in the face of a major backbench rebellion. Speaking for the first time after Downing Street agreed a ...

The PM has defended his climbdown on welfare after more than 100 of his own MPs were poised to vote against planned ...

Next Friday marks a year since Labour came to power. To celebrate the occasion, Sir Keir Starmer has done a bizarre sit down ...

The public is also sceptical about the Government’s progress. Keiran Pedley, director of politics at Ipsos, said that “the ...

Labour is in a “good place now” on welfare reform, a Cabinet minister has insisted after the Government agreed to water down its plans for benefits cuts amid the prospect of a major rebellion.

A deal between Sir Keir Starmer and Labour rebels has begun to unravel as the Prime Minister faces the largest revolt of his ...

Sir Keir Starmer has blown a £4.25bn hole in his budget after retreating on cuts to disability benefits and pensioner subsidies, raising the likelihood of further tax rises and damaging his government ...

The PM previously said the image of the Tory doyenne was taken down because he does not like 'pictures of people staring down ...