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

The scale of those cuts has led some Labour MPs publicly to declare for the first time today that they won't vote for the ...

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

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

While the Labour Party clearly talked about welfare reform in its manifesto, it never signalled it would make these sorts of cuts to the benefits bill. But the environment has changed. Growth is ...

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

Demonstrators gathered on Whitehall to protest against cuts to welfare spending as the government admitted they would likely drive another 250,000 people into poverty. The cuts to benefits, first ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to make further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement ...

The Mail reported that more than 30 were in opposition, but these are the voices that have been identified so far as in dissent: In addition, Stoke-on-Trent South MP Allison Gardner had originally ...

Labour councillors in Wakefield have publicly opposed government plans to make cuts to the benefit system. The authority’s controlling group said it was calling for a “rethink” of proposed welfare ...

The chancellor laid out more details of Labour’s planned £4.8 billion in welfare cuts on Wednesday as she delivered the new government’s first spring statement in power. Confirming the changes, Ms ...

The scale of those cuts has led some Labour MPs publicly to declare for the first time today that they won't vote for the welfare changes – though any rebellion is ultimately likely to be ...