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

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

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has insisted the changes are needed to fix the ‘broken’ system left by the last ...

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

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 ...

The founder of the Get Britain Working Group of Labour MPs suggested the cuts would make the welfare system “more sustainable”. But the majority of those Labour parliamentarians who spoke this morning ...

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

Government whips will be overestimating the number of Labour rebels over welfare cuts as a form of "expectation management", Dame Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Beth Rigby on the Electoral ...

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

The cuts to benefits, first announced last week, are expected to take £4.8billion off the welfare bill, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said in her budget update on Wednesday. And she signalled further ...

The Labour government's announcement of massive welfare cuts affecting three million people - many of them sick or disabled - sparked a furious backlash among some on the left of the party north of ...