After a tough week for the prime minister, a government minister was questioned about Keir Starmer’s reversal on disability benefit reduction. After the government was obliged to make significant concessions last week to prevent a humiliating Commons loss, Baroness Jacqui Smith, the minister of skills, was under pressure. In a dramatic climbdown on Thursday, theContinue reading “Minister Questioned On PIP Welfare U-Turn – ‘How On Earth Did It Get To This Point’”
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Activists Support Transgender Cinderella
Labour MPs have shown support for an activist group which promotes ‘transgender Cinderella’ books to primary school children. Pop’n’Olly, which visits classrooms to teach gender ideology, welcomed politicians to a Parliamentary drop-in event which it said was sponsored by Nadia Whittome MP. Kim Leadbeater, Paul Davies, Darren Paffey, and Stephen Doughty, the Foreign Office minister, were among the LabourContinue reading “Activists Support Transgender Cinderella”
Reeves’s Plan To Cut Welfare Triggers A Labour Revolt
Keir Starmer is facing a rebellion over plans to axe £5 billion from welfare as the government scrambles to balance the books. Labour MPs have been warned of ‘deep concern’ over ‘draconian’ curbs, and details are expected to be announced as soon as tomorrow. Liz Kendall is set to declare that workers who lose their jobsContinue reading “Reeves’s Plan To Cut Welfare Triggers A Labour Revolt”
People Could Just Work Two More Hours A Week, Therese Coffey Says
Therese Coffey today defended scrapping the £20 a week Universal Credit uplift, suggesting people could work two additional hours to make up the money. The Work and Pensions Secretary said the increase had always been a temporary part of the response to the pandemic and maintained that she’s completely happy with it going. The commentsContinue reading “People Could Just Work Two More Hours A Week, Therese Coffey Says”