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Starmer to face PMQs after welfare bill climbdownThe UK Covid-19 inquiry is hearing evidence from former health secretary Matt Hancock today. I’ll be sharing updates as…

Keir Starmer has been forced to abandon the central plank of his welfare bill to get it past its first Commons hurdle, with a dramatic climbdown…

When politicians can’t admit they are losing, they say they are listening. Your anger has been heard, says the contrite minister after a byelection drubbing. We…

The government has won a vote on its benefits bill by 75 votes, but only after offering last-minute concessions to Labour rebels.Ministers had already watered down…

Hours before MPs were due to vote on the government’s welfare bill, Angela Rayner conveyed an urgent message to Downing Street.She had spent the day in…

Keir Starmer’s welfare reforms hang by a thread the day before a vote that could define his premiership. The prime minister was almost certainly heading for…

The Labour whip who resigned in protest against disability benefit cuts has said Keir Starmer’s concessions do not yet go far enough to win her over,…

In March 2020, when the Conservative government looked like an outlier in appearing to pursue a Covid strategy centring on herd immunity, for the first time…

The Conservative shadow cabinet minister looked more cheerful than at any point in the 12 months since the general election. “How did they get into such…

A disabled Labour MP has said Keir Starmer’s chaotic U-turn on welfare reform will create an “unethical two-tier system”, in a damning intervention which will put…