British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given way to political pressure and watered down planned welfare reforms to avert ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made concessions to dissenting lawmakers from his Labour Party on planned ...

The food subsidy programme that Ms Butler uses - called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP ...

Labour party opponents of the UK government’s £5 billion ($6.8 billion) cut to disability benefits have secured enough ...

A significant number of Labour MPs are threatening to vote against the government's working-age welfare reform plan when it ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. A Labour welfare rebel has said he was still opposed to the government’s welfare bill, which he considers a “leap in the dark” ...

Labour's controversial Welfare Reform Bill is scheduled for a second reading in the House of Commons tomorrow. By last week, 127 Labour MPs had signed an amendment to scupper the Bill, forcing Keir ...

The British prime minister had pressed ahead with the proposal, but a parliamentary vote on it was expected to fail.

At least 150,000 more people will be pushed into relative poverty by the end of 2029-30 because of welfare changes ... and ministers also rowed back on plans to cut the health-related element of ...

But it’s clear that whether it’s Labour or Tories in power, the welfare state is not in safe hands at Westminster. The Big ...

Exclusive: The prime minister’s controversial welfare cuts would deepen economic insecurity for disabled women and make them ...

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