Independent MPs table amendment to scrap 'disgusting' welfare bill

Independent MPs table amendment to scrap 'disgusting' welfare bill

A group of Independent MPs, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, have tabled an amendment to effectively scrap the UK Government's…

Corbyn & Sultana among MPs tabling amendment to stop disability benefit cuts

“The government’s attack on disabled people is disgusting & disgraceful.” Jeremy Corbyn By Matt Willgress MPs have tabled an amendment to the Government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, declining to give it Second Reading on the grounds that it “fails to provide a fair and compassionate approach to reforming disability benefits”. The Amendment says that the Bill will push “50,000 children into relative poverty and that …