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Starmer U-turns on winter fuel payment cuts – but millions could still miss out this winter

PM forced to announce huge policy reversal to see off threat of revolt by Labour MPs – with pledge to make more pensioners eligible for cash to pay cold weather energy bills

The Independent UK

Starmer to look at making more pensioners eligible for winter fuel allowance

The Prime Minister has faced pressure to change course over the squeeze on benefits.

Evening Standard

Starmer reveals U-turn on cuts to winter fuel payments as Labour MPs threaten revolt and Reform surge in polls

The PM made the announcement in the Commons that the Government was reconsidering the controversial policy

Evening Standard

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Starmer doubles down on ‘island of strangers’ immigration row amid growing Labour revolt

Downing Street has rejected comparisons to former right-wing Tory MP Enoch Powell and insisted the prime minister will ‘not shy away’ from the issue of immigration as Tory MP Robert Jenrick and Viktor Orban’s government praised his language

The Independent UK

The Kneecap furore: hip-hop v hypocrisy

Letters: Norman Miller wonders whether the music industry would like to hear a call to ‘kill your local bands now’. Plus, letters by Robert Bennett, Denis Jackson and Duncan Macgregor

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves insists welfare system needs reform amid disquiet on benefit cuts

Some 42 backbenchers said the planned cuts were ‘impossible to support’ in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer.

The Independent UK

Diane Abbott criticises Government for rejecting Sentencing Council guidance

New guidelines from the independent Sentencing Council were scheduled to come into force earlier this month but were delayed.

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Government Bill to block new sentencing guidelines clears first Commons test

The proposals were brought forward following claims of a ‘two-tier’ justice system.

Evening Standard

Renters who secured record £263k payout from ‘rogue landlord’ raise fears he will not pay up

‘Clearly there’s one set of rules for ordinary people – we fear what will happen if we’re even a month late on rent or mortgage payments – and another for billionaires,’ says tenant

The Independent UK

Spring statement: Welfare cuts could cost lives, warn health experts

Benefit reforms will ‘result in more premature deaths’, Government is told

The Independent UK

Charities and health experts warn welfare cuts could cost lives

The Government will release an impact assessment indicating how many people will be hit by its benefits reforms.

Evening Standard

Charities report rise in calls for help since welfare cuts announcement

Mind, Scope and Citizens Advice urged a rethink, as did a group of public health experts.

Evening Standard

Shocking figures reveal UK spends double the defence budget on working age benefits

Analysis by The Independent has revealed the scale of Britain’s welfare bill to the taxpayer

The Independent UK

Scores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changes

Significant doubts aired at Westminster meeting with Liz Kendall attended by about 100 MPs

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Starmer told there is ‘nothing moral’ about his £5bn welfare cuts

Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott challenged Sir Keir Starmer over the reforms at Prime Minister’s Questions.

The National (Scotland)

Diane Abbott tells Keir Starmer there is 'nothing moral' about Labour's welfare cuts

KEIR Starmer has been urged to stop referring to his plans to slash the benefits budget by billions as being “moral”.

The Independent UK

Diane Abbott rejects Starmer’s proposal to cut disability benefits: ‘It’s not a Labour thing to do’

Diane Abbott has strongly condemned the government's plans to cut benefits, arguing that reducing financial support is not the answer to helping people move off welfare.

The Guardian - UK

David Lammy says G7 considering further moves to pressure Russia into agreeing Ukraine ceasefire – as it happened

‘We have more cards we can play,’ foreign secretary tells MPs as he says G7 foreign ministers found ‘common ground’ when meeting last week

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Minister defends planned benefit cuts amid growing Labour backlash

Diane Abbott said planned welfare cuts are ‘not a Labour thing to do’ as backlash grows in the party over the move

The Guardian - UK

Cutting benefits is ‘not a Labour thing to do’, says Diane Abbott

Party’s longest-serving MP says she agrees with Ed Balls and Andy Burnham, who have criticised planned welfare cuts

The Independent UK

Starmer insists ‘there’s no return to austerity’ despite benefits and civil service cuts

The government has axed NHS England and is expected to unveil billions of pounds of cuts to benefit spending

The National (Scotland)

'Appalling': Diane Abbott excluded from Labour MPs' meeting with Keir Starmer

SENIOR Labour MP Diane Abbott was excluded from a meeting with Keir Starmer – with her treatment branded “appalling” by Westminster veterans.

The Independent UK

Diane Abbott says Starmer’s ‘morally indefensible’ defence spend drive won’t make us safer

Europe is in a 'frenzy of warmongering' that has nothing to do with Ukraine, veteran Labour MP says

The Independent UK

Starmer to condemn Farage’s ‘dangerous right-wing politics’ as Reform UK surges in the polls

In a sign of growing fears in Downing Street at Reform’s surge in the polls, Keir Starmer will warn Nigel Farage’s policies are ‘alien’ to the needs of working people

Evening Standard

Diane Abbott calls on all members of 'racist and sexist' Labour WhatsApp group to quit

Diane Abbott urges all involved in offensive Labour WhatsApp group to step down as two MPs lose the whip

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