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Anas Sarwar backs UK disability benefit cuts amid Scottish Labour revolt

ANAS Sarwar has backed the UK Government’s plans to cut billions from disability benefits even with one-third of Scottish Labour MPs in open…

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Social Security Trust Funds to Run Dry 1 Year Earlier Than Projected; Benefits to Drop by 19%

The Social Security Board of Trustees said in an annual report that Social Security Trust Funds, comprising Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance, will have revenue to pay all scheduled benefits only until 2034, which is one year earlier than previous projections.

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300k Scots 'to lose £500 per year' to Labour's welfare cuts, leading charity warns

HUNDREDS of thousands of Scots face losing £500 every year as a result of Labour’s cuts to disability and sickness benefits ...

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Starmer dismisses welfare cuts revolt as ‘noises off’ and defends his leadership – as it happened

PM ‘committed to reforming system’ as more Labour MPs join opposition to plan to cut universal credit and Pip

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 100,000 adults in England denied state-funded social care due to cuts

Exclusive: Number of people receiving subsidised care has fallen far more quickly than the country’s disability rate, analysis finds

The Guardian - UK

EU, taxes, and Labour 'out of step': What we learned in John Curtice's polling report

NEW polling has shown the Labour Government is “totally out of step with voters” on a range of issues including the EU, taxation, and welfare ...

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Survey ‘suggests political system poised for potential transformation’

The latest chapter of the British Social Attitudes survey found a growing appetite for electoral reform.

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Starmer stands firm on welfare bill as number of Labour rebels passes 120

Party big-hitters including Sadiq Khan urge PM to pause legislation as ministers and whips fail to contain rebellion

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on disability benefits: Labour’s rebels are right – these reforms will lead to misery

Editorial: The welfare system needs to change. But these over-hasty cuts will increase poverty, not employment

The Guardian - UK

Pressure piles on Anas Sarwar as 10th Scottish Labour MP joins rebellion

A 10th Scottish Labour MP has signed their name on an amendment which opposes the UK Government’s proposed changes to disability benefits, heaping…

The National (Scotland)

Sadiq Khan joins growing Labour rebellion against disability benefit cuts

Exclusive: London mayor is most senior party figure to call for plans to be dropped, as Starmer vows to press ahead

The Guardian - UK

Scottish Labour MPs set to rebel on UK welfare reform – see the full list

MORE than 100 Labour MPs have lined up to oppose the UK Government’s proposed changes to disability benefits ...

The National (Scotland)

Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about ‘human dignity’

These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Seth Rogen says leaked Gigli audition tape would destroy his career: ‘If you have it, burn it’

‘I auditioned for this boy with a cognitive disability,’ recalled the actor

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Scottish Government launches new 'milestone' plan for disability equality

The Scottish Government has launched a new 'milestone' plan which aims to put disabled people's experiences and concerns at the centre of…

The Guardian - UK

Whip’s resignation over disability benefit cuts not a sign of major rebellion, Nandy says

Culture secretary says Vicky Foxcroft is only frontbench MP she knows who was considering quitting before vote

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Labour whip resigns over government’s planned disability welfare cuts

LABOUR MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a Government whip over proposed cuts to disability benefits ...

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Rosie Jones’s laugh-out-loud sitcom Pushers is a madcap triumph

4/5 This new show about a woman with cerebral palsy who turns to selling drugs is full of clever observational comedy that skewers attitudes to disability

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Pushers review – Rosie Jones’s hilarious disability drug sitcom is pure silliness

The standup’s new crack comedy sees her discover that society’s underestimation of disabled people means they’re perfectly cut out for work as drug dealers. It’s a farce-packed watch involving a lot of spilt cocaine

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP resigns as government whip in protest at benefit cuts

Vicky Foxcroft says she cannot support changes to disability payments ahead of key vote on welfare bill

Evening Standard

OPINION - We all know why Britain's benefit numbers keep rising: too many mental health claims

There are some figures that are so strikingly off the scale – the cost of HS2, say, or levels of immigration – that you think there must be a nought too much or a decimal point missing. But no, the digits are correct: the number of people claiming disability benefits…

The Independent UK

Scotland refuses to match Labour’s ‘damaging’ welfare cuts

‘There is still time for the UK government to step back,’ a Scottish minister said

The Independent UK

Labour rebels say ‘you can’t suspend us all’ as they hit back at threats over benefits cuts vote

Whips have even tried to recruit popular Labour MPs to convince their colleagues to back the measures in a bid to stave off the rebellion

Evening Standard

Parents of autistic teenager who died hail ‘milestone’ NHS training guidance

The code of practice on statutory learning disability and autism training is named after 18-year-old Oliver McGowan.

Evening Standard

Welfare reform legislation to be debated next month, MPs told

The Government has faced backlash from some Labour MPs over the ‘damaging disability benefit cuts’, which it said could save up to £5 billion a year.

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