Ministers brace to unveil £5bn benefits cuts TODAY despite Labour fury at 'shameful' plans - targeting incapacity and disability handouts with more checks

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 11:41 UTC

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is set to lay out moves to save around £5billion amid fears spiralling costs are 'unsustainable'.

Keir Starmer to unveil watered down benefits reforms amid growing backlash from MPs

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 06:57 UTC

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The Prime Minister tonight signed off proposals from Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall which are designed to curb the growth in Britain's bloated benefits bill.

QUENTIN LETTS: Liz Kendall clutched her Marje Proops specs and did a bit of shouting at the Tories. But she was meant to be whackin' her OWN side!

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 06:57 UTC

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Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin (d.1791) was the toyboy of Catherine the Great who allegedly tried to impress his empress by erecting house facades on the banks of the River Dnieper.

Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving more than 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off

Keir Starmer is to defy growing anger by driving through welfare cuts for so…

Labour backtracks on benefits freeze: Now plans to tackle Britain's spiralling welfare bill are set to be watered down over fears of major backbench rebellion

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been planning to freeze personal independence payments (PIP) to tackle Britain's spiralling welfare bill, but the proposals are said to have been ditched.

STEPHEN POLLARD: Starmer must banish corrosive idea that self-responsibility is merely an option

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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STEPHEN POLLARD: It is so important that Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall sticks to her guns when she announces her plans as for many, living on welfare has become not a backstop, but a lifest…

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Welfare is a safety net - not a lifestyle

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 06:03 UTC

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall and Sir Keir Starmer must stand firm against the naysayers and bleeding hearts. These reforms are not cruel, they are kind.

Labour U-turn on £5bn benefits crackdown as Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall 'prepare to backtrack on cutting disabled people's payments'

found 2025 › Mar › 16 (Sun) @ 09:10 UTC

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Labour is expected to make a humiliating U-turn on their £5 billion benefits crackdown as Sir Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall are anticipated to back down on the controversial plans.

Welfare claimants to be given 'right to try' work without risk of losing their benefits as part of Labour's overhaul

found 2025 › Mar › 16 (Sun) @ 09:10 UTC

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to announce legislation to introduce a 'right to try guarantee' for those on health-related benefits.

Benefits cuts 'delayed to next week' as Labour MPs revolt over 'rerun of austerity' - despite Keir Starmer warning the system is 'indefensible'

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 12:52 UTC

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Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been widely expected to unveil plans as soon as today, with ministers trying to slash £5billion from 'spiralling' benefits costs.