Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham back growing Labour rebellion against disability benefit cuts
The Labour mayors have urged Keir Starmer to listen to MPs and rethink the cuts
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These are the 100 Labour MPs backing an amendment to halt the PIP cuts bill
If the amendment passes, it would effectively kill the bill
SNP to end two-child benefit cap, as pressure mounts on Labour to do the same
“Families can’t wait any longer, they’ve waited for the UK government and there’s been no action.”
Exclusive interview – Nadia Whittome MP: ‘We need to build an economy that cares for people’
The left-wing Labour MP argues that Labour needs to show it’s on the side of working class people, not millionaires.
Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester
“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”
Labour extends free school meals to 500,000 more children
‘Feeding more children every day, for free, is one of the biggest interventions we can make to put more money in parents’ pockets, tackle the stain of poverty, and set children up to learn.’
Over 100 disabled celebrities call for U-turn on disability benefit cuts
They’ve described the cuts as ‘cruelty by policy’
A food parcel every 11 seconds: Charity demands urgent action on hunger
Over the past five years, the number of families with children relying on food parcels has increased by 46 percent.
Gordon Brown reiterates call for government to drop two-child benefit cap
‘We’re dealing with a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem, poverty used to be related to unemployment, it’s now low pay.’
Lord John Bird urges government to step up on poverty to head off Reform threat
Bird warns that unless the government acts now, they will not hold back the rise of Reform at the next general election.