Welfare reforms to PIP disability benefit trigger intense row within Labour

Keir Starmer pulled the pin on steep welfare cuts. Now for the hard part.

MPs are digesting a sweeping social security shake-up that marks arguably the biggest test of the British prime minister’s authority yet.

Welfare reforms will 'hit the North East hard,' child poverty campaigners warn

Benefit reforms branded the biggest shake-up to the welfare system in a generation will create a “pro-work system”, the Government has said.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gained international reputation, but with his social policy, he encounters growing resistance at home.

Liz Kendall promises to fix 'broken' benefits system

Measures including restricting eligibility for disability payments are expected to save £50bn by 2030.

The tribes battling it out in Keir Starmer's Labour Party

After winning a landslide election victory last summer, Keir Starmer will be hoping his years in power aren't marred by the infighting and factionalism that dogged the final years of Conservative rule.Yet arriving in Downing Street as he has with swathes of ambitious MPs, both new and party veterans, means it will be a challenge to keep them all happy.The Labour Party has a history "crammed with bitter bust-ups", said the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg,…

DWP benefit cuts confirmed with big changes for PIP - Liverpool Echo

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced some sweeping changes today