Labour was the party that created the welfare state. Now it is intent on cutting it back. And in Liz Kendall, the government has found a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly entirely ...

This was the week in which Reform UK finally shattered the facade of indifference maintained by the British political ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has insisted that rebelling Labour MPs "know the welfare system needs reform" as the government faces a growing backlash over planned cuts. Sir Keir Starmer is under ...

Readers were somewhat split when we asked Do you agree with Labour's plans to cut welfare costs ... Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is drawing up reforms to cut down on sickness-related ...

But Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned would-be rebels they had to realise the welfare system needs reform. Asked what her message to Labour MPs worried about the welfare cuts was, the Chancellor ...

OUR welfare system is wildly out of control — and Labour’s commendable reforms are a vital first effort to rein it in. They may still be too mild to turn it around. That is unsurprising.

At least 54 Labour MPs are set to rebel against government plans to radically change the welfare system, paving the way for the prime minister's biggest revolt yet. ITV News has been tracking how ...

So says former Labour big beast turned centrist-dad podcaster Ed Balls about the government’s welfare reform proposals. Cue furious nods from all those who were hoping and expecting better ...

“It is fundamentally ridiculous as a way of making policy to be scrambling around for extra welfare cuts so you’re just on the right side of a line, days before the statement,” said Duncan Weldon, an ...

The first wave of commentary has honed in on the government’s welfare reforms, the bulk of which were unveiled earlier this month by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall — to some consternation in ...