Labour MP condemns his party's 'devastating' benefit cuts

How to launch a backbench rebellion

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music With the stench of rebellion hanging around the tearooms of SW1 after ministers announced fresh welfare cuts, this week host Patrick Baker explores the backbench revolts of years past, asking how disobedient MPs really plan and plot against their own parties. Veteran Tory MP David Davis describes how he and other rebels defeated David Cameron’s plans to …

Labour ministers could resign over benefits cuts as tensions grow

Rachel Reeves has been warned that ministers could still resign over her controversial benefits reforms and that expected spending cuts at next week’s Spring Statement will only make their anger worse.Labour tensions are growing over £5bn of welfare cuts set out this week, while the Chancellor is expected to outline further spending reductions, which her allies had to deny amounted to austerity, to balance the books in Wednesday’s statement.A mi…

David Lammy makes bombshell benefits confession in 'fractious' meeting

David Lammy reportedly made a bombshell revelation about a family member during a tense cabinet meeting over £5 billion welfare cuts.

Politics LIVE: Keir Starmer rocked by mass councillor exodus as Labour MPs plot ‘mother of all rebellions’ - 'Increasingly untenable!'

Sir Keir Starmer has been rocked by a mass exodus of local councillors over Labour’s decision to push ahead with cuts to Britain’s ballooning benefits bill

Housing officials at loggerheads over ‘devastating’ funding cuts

What Liverpool Labour MPs think of government benefit cuts as one labels them 'sadistic' - Liverpool Echo

Some of the city's Members of Parliament have delivered strong criticism of their party's decisions