Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from John McDonnell

Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts until after MPs have voted

Exclusive: Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed her department has assessed the impact the policy change will have on pensioners living in fuel poverty, but said only that it will be published ‘in due course’

The Independent UK

Dozens of Labour MPs could rebel during Winter Fuel Payment vote

DOZENS of Labour MPs could rebel against Keir Starmer’s plan to make major cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment, reports suggest.

The National (Scotland)

Diane Abbott among London MPs in growing revolt against Keir Starmer's winter fuel payment cuts for pensioners

Some 50 Labour MPs may refuse to back the Government over limiting the winter fuel payment in a vote on Tuesday

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Keir Starmer under fresh pressure to lift two-child benefit cap in October

The prime minister is facing renewed calls to scrap the austerity-era policy after a senior party figure suggested it would not be removed by chancellor Rachel Reeves in the statement this autumn

The Independent UK

Pressure grows on Rachel Reeves to end two-child benefit cap in next budget

Campaigners are warning the chancellor that any delay will keep hundreds of thousands of children in poverty

The Guardian - UK

Zarah Sultana: I was the most abused MP – but Labour leadership did nothing

A SUSPENDED Labour MP has said she did not hear a word from leadership even after parliamentary authorities highlighted that she was the victim of…

The National (Scotland)

Labour will be pushed to axe two-child benefit cap, says John McDonnell

Former shadow chancellor claims rebellion a genuine point of conscience, not a coordinated attack on government

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

My vote was a plea for Labour to tackle child poverty. Its response? To suspend me

Seven of us voted for a motion to end the two-child benefit cap – not as ‘gesture politics’, but to fight for a cause we believe in, says the MP John McDonnell

The Guardian - UK

Who are the seven Labour MPs suspended by Keir Starmer?

Several long-serving Labour MPs have been suspend for the first time

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap in first PMQs as prime minister – as it happened

Labour leader quizzed by SNP on benefit cap after suspending seven Labour MPs over their stance on the issue

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer accused of ‘authoritarian control-freakery’ over two-child benefit cap rebellion

Keir Starmer removed the whip from long-standing figures including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell after they rebelled against the government to back an SNP-led amendment to scrap the policy

The Independent UK

Labour rebel says she ‘slept well’ after taking stand over two-child benefit cap

Zarah Sultana, one of seven MPs suspended over SNP motion, says she is victim of ‘macho virility test’

The Guardian - UK

Labour suspends seven rebels who voted to scrap two-child benefit cap

Former shadow chancellor John McDonell among Labour MPs who have had whip suspended for six months

The Guardian - UK

Labour need to remove two-child benefit cap immediately amid ‘unacceptable’ levels of poverty, MPs say

Debate over two-child benefit cap a ‘defining issue for the new Labour government’, John McDonnell says

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The National (Scotland)

People join hands around Westminster in protest at UK arms sales to Israel

PRO-Palestine groups have joined hands around the Houses of Parliament in London in protest at the UK Government’s ongoing refusal to halt arms…

The Guardian - UK

Quick, tangible change will see off the hard right – these are the things Labour must do now

Nigel Farage is poised to pounce, but a wave of progressive policy delivery is well within the new government’s reach, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer faces first Commons revolt as PM over two child benefit cap opposed by many Labour MPs

Ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell says he may seek to amend the Budget to scrap this welfare restriction

The Guardian - UK

Starmer won by shifting to the right. But the Labour left doesn’t need to spend these years in the wilderness

The party increased its vote in seats with leftwing MPs. In this strange new world of British politics, there are reasons for hope, say Andy Beckett

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott among dozen of Leftwingers standing in London at election

Ex-Labour leader Mr Corbyn is close to pulling off a shock win in Islington North, according to a poll

Evening Standard

General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in...Hayes and Harlington?

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps’ might get him into Downing Street. But there is danger ahead

This cautious programme is too limited to bring about the changes Britain needs – and which would keep Labour in power, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

The Guardian - UK

The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the legacy of the radical left

What do the careers of Diane Abbott, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell tell us about political success?

The Guardian - UK

The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn

An absorbing study of the radical left makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises the Jeremy Corbyn years

Evening Standard

Truss memoir receives pocket money advance

The 49-day PM’s publishers seem to lack confidence in her upcoming book

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt’s cynical budget is the last, desperate gasp of a dying government

Many Conservative MPs fighting to hold on to their seats will be asking the chancellor: ‘Is this all you’ve got?’, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

1 … 4 5 6 7

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Conservative Party

the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

35 stories

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme

31 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.