‘Slash the Benefits Bill or Lose the Red Wall’: Labour MPs Deliver Stark Ultimatum to Burnham

Labour’s dance on welfare reform needs tempo

Editorial: John Healey appears keener than Andy Burnham to get started on trimming Britain’s welfare bill but the government cannot afford to drift

‘Slash the benefits bill or lose the Red Wall’: Labour MPs deliver stark ultimatum to Burnham

Andy Burnham is facing pressure from Labour’s Red Wall MPs to curb Britain’s soaring welfare bill, amid warnings that failure to act could drive working-class voters into the arms of… The post ‘Slash the benefits bill or lose the Red Wall’: Labour MPs deliver stark ultimatum to Burnham appeared first on London Business News

Andy Burnham ordered by Red Wall MPs to cut welfare spending or risk losing election to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Red Wall MPs have pleaded with Andy Burnham to slash welfare spending or risk losing the next election to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. The Prime Minister has been warned by Labour MPs from the traditional northern heartlands he will face fury from their constituents if he refuses to lower welfare spending to appease people from “leafy Surrey suburbs”, The Telegraph reports. In the aftermath of Chancellor John Healey's Budget, Mr Burnham did not com…

Cut welfare spending, Labour MPs tell Burnham