A Dorset MP is warning that cuts to welfare announced in the spring statement would be "making poor people poorer". Updating ...

The government’s impact assessment suggested that 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be plunged into poverty as ...

A rapidly drawn-up £500 million of extra savings adds fuel to the fire for Labour MPs queasy about welfare cuts.

Some MPs even suggest that the welfare cuts could be Labour’s big betrayal, comparable to the Liberal Democrats’ broken promise on tuition fees in 2010. I don’t think they will be ...

Dame Harriet Harman says government whips will be studying all the 411 Labour MPs for clues as to who may oppose the near ...

A Labour politician has said people in his constituency are "terrified" about the chancellor's decision to tighten the ...

Rachel Reeves was charged with the broadcast media round this morning, as she fielded questions and criticisms in the wake of ...

Steve Witherden says the Spring Statement "strips benefits from our most vulnerable".

Labour was the party that created the welfare state. Now it is intent on cutting it back. And in Liz Kendall, the government has found a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly entirely ...

There has been some unease in Labour's ranks over the planned savings in the welfare budget. The government's newly published ...

The true impact of Rachel Reeves's welfare reforms became clearer on Wednesday following the Chancellor's spring statement.