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Starmer offers Labour MPs major welfare bill concession | Welfare

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Keir Starmer has offered Labour backbenchers a major concession over disability benefits in a last-ditch attempt to limit the largest rebellion of his premiership and get his controversial welfare bill over the line. Stephen Timms, the welfare minister, told MPs on Tuesday afternoon the government would shelve plans to make major cuts to personal independence […]

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Labour rebel claims Starmer risks defeat on welfare bill with ‘loads’ of MPs planning to vote against it – UK politics live | Politics

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Will welfare bill go through? Pippa Crerar on latest state of play This is from Pippa Crerar, the Guardian’s political editor, with her latest take on the state of play ahead of the start of the debate on the UC and Pip bill. Meg Hillier, who tabled the original wrecking amendment to welfare bill, confirms

Labour rebel claims Starmer risks defeat on welfare bill with ‘loads’ of MPs planning to vote against it – UK politics live | Politics Read More »

Whitehall’s ambition to cut costs using AI is fraught with risk | Artificial intelligence (AI)

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A Dragons’ Den-style event this week, where tech companies will have 20 minutes to pitch ideas for increasing automation in the British justice system, is one of numerous examples of how the cash-strapped Labour government hopes artificial intelligence and data science can save money and improve public services. Amid warnings from critics that Downing Street

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No 10 plan to avert Labour welfare rebellion in chaos amid division over scale of concessions | Welfare

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Downing Street’s plans to see off a major Labour welfare rebellion were in chaos on Monday night, amid continued brinkmanship between MPs and the government over the scale of the concessions. There was significant division between government departments over how to respond to rebels’ demands – with seemingly little idea how to quell continuing anger

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DWP says 150,000 more people pushed into poverty by benefit cuts, not 250,000 as forecast said before U-turn – UK politics live | Politics

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DWP says 150,000 more people pushed into poverty by benefit cuts – not 250,000 as forecast said before U-turn The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an analysis saying that, allowing for the concesssions announced last week, the welfare cuts will still push an extra 150,000 people into relative poverty. Here is the

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Starmer’s disability benefit concessions are not enough, says rebel Labour whip | Welfare

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The Labour whip who resigned in protest against disability benefit cuts has said Keir Starmer’s concessions do not yet go far enough to win her over, as No 10 launched a fresh attempt to stem the revolt against its welfare bill. Vicky Foxcroft, who quit her frontbench role over the welfare bill a little more

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As a visibly physically disabled MP, my view on the welfare bill is clear: we need a reset and fast | Marie Tidball

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In March 2020, when the Conservative government looked like an outlier in appearing to pursue a Covid strategy centring on herd immunity, for the first time in my life I felt raw, hot fear. Thinking of my toddler and what might happen if I caught coronavirus and was treated under the then Nice guidelines “frailty”

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Wes Streeting says chants about IDF at Glastonbury festival ‘appalling’ | Glastonbury 2025

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Chants of death to the Israeli military at Glastonbury were “appalling” and the BBC and the festival have questions to answer, Wes Streeting has said, while adding that Israel needs to “get its own house in order”. The health secretary said the chanting should not have been broadcast to those watching at home, highlighting that

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Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’ | Politics

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A disabled Labour MP has said Keir Starmer’s chaotic U-turn on welfare reform will create an “unethical two-tier system”, in a damning intervention which will put further pressure on the prime minister to change course. Olivia Blake, one of only nine MPs in parliament who has a disclosed disability, said the proposed changes to the

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Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant | Home Office

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Home Office staff are concerned about the “absurd” decision to ban Palestine Action under UK anti-terrorism laws, a senior civil servant has said. On Monday the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans to ban the group, which would make membership of it, or inviting support for it, a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act, carrying

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