How Scottish Labour MPs Voted on Disability Cuts Bill

How Scottish Labour MPs voted on disability cuts bill

SCOTTISH Labour overwhelmingly backed the UK Government’s plans to cut a disability benefit.

People Will Remember How We Vote – Richard Burgon MP

“None of us got into politics to take £3,000 a year off low-income people who are sick and disabled and on universal credit” During the debate on the Government’s disability cuts, Richard Burgon MP made an impassioned plea for MPs to vote against the cuts. You can read his speech published in full below:  Sometimes politics seems complicated. Sometimes the passage of a Bill through Parliament, especially with antics and shenanigans like those we…

MPs Betray Disabled People by Passing Universal Credit Cuts

Share this post: MPs have voted to pass the Universal Credit Bill — stripped of all meaningful safeguards and loaded with powers that may devastate the lives of sick and disabled people from 2026 onwards. It may go down as one of the most brazen acts of political cowardice in recent memory, Despite [...] The post Disabled people betrayed as MPs hand government blank cheque for welfare cuts appeared first on Vox Political.