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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A quarter of a million people - including 50,000 children - will be pushed into relative poverty as a result of Labour's welfare cuts, ministers admitted today. In the Government's own assessment ...

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

A Labour minister came under fire today after he compared the Government's welfare squeeze to cutting his children's pocket money by £10 per week. Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the ...

Following the cuts, between 800,000 and 1.2 million are set to lose their entitlement to PIP as the benefit effectively ...