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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

Hardship on the streets of Liverpool: ‘The benefit cap put millions of children in poverty overnight’

With parents going without meals to feed their children, and bills rising, residents and councillors talk of the problems they see every day

The Guardian - UK

Watchdog should investigate Farage’s ‘dangerous comments’, says Liverpool MP

Kim Johnson says comments by Reform leader after the week’s violent disorder ‘cannot be left to fester’

The Guardian - UK

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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

Axe two child benefit cap, say 35 MPs as first revolt against Keir Starmer grows

London MPs Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Dawn Butler and Bell Ribeiro-Addy among those calling for restriction to be ditched

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer government digs in as it faces Labour revolt over two-child benefit limit

Labour MP Kim Johnson is ready to table an amendment to the King’s Speech to ditch the restriction

Evening Standard

Labour candidate in Liverpool criticises Starmer for advert on Sun homepage

Kim Johnson said city, much of which still boycotts paper over false Hillsborough reporting, would be disappointed in Labour

The Guardian - UK

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Diane Abbott gets Labour whip back but trail-blazing MP not expected to stand in election

Ms Abbott was an independent MP when Parliament was prorogued on Friday, May 24, ahead of the General Election on July 4

Evening Standard

James Martin splits from girlfriend Louise Davies as he's seen with personal trainer

The 51-year-old TV chef was spotted watch shopping in west London

Evening Standard

Joint enterprise law: MP’s bill seeks to stop innocent bystanders being jailed

Private member’s bill would amend law that is accused of demonising young disadvantaged people

The Guardian - UK

Wrong place, wrong time? The women fighting for loved ones jailed for murder in joint enterprise

Lawyers and MPs are backing campaigners in fight for a change in the law around joint enterprise, which they say is being interpreted too harshly, Holly Evans writes

The Independent UK

Trainee prison officers ‘encouraged to be more violent’ in sexist graduate scheme that sees a third drop out

Exclusive: Women hired as prison officers through a university graduate programme claim a boys’ club of male officers made their lives hell

The Independent UK

MP suspended for using racist slur claims anti-racism course on expenses

Exclusive: Neil Coyle, whom Sir Keir Starmer welcomed back into the party in May, put a £295 unconscious bias course on his expenses

The Independent UK

Now Keir Starmer says Margaret Thatcher did ‘terrible things’, days after piling praise on the former PM

Liverpool Riverside MP Kim Johnson said Mrs Thatcher is ‘not someone Labour supporters should look up to’

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Leaked email reveals Keir Starmer vetoed Thatcher criticism

Exclusive: As the Labour leader faces a backlash over his praise for the former Tory prime minister, a leaked email shows he stopped former frontbencher Sam Tarry from attacking her ‘failed’ transport policies in 2021

Salon

The link between autism and apologizing

Do you say "sorry" at the drop of a hat? Here's why the instinct to apologize is more than just a survival strategy

The Guardian - UK

‘It risks miscarriages of justice’: MPs oppose rap lyrics being used as evidence in UK trials

MPs Nadia Whittome and Kim Johnson, plus figures including Shami Chakrabarti and Annie Mac, support Art Not Evidence campaign against contentious use of lyrics

The Independent UK

No 10 crackdown on racism as minister warns officials n-word slurs won’t be tolerated

Exclusive: Cabinet Office acts in response to The Independent’s investigation which uncovered n-word in string of official documents

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The Independent UK

Now n-word found in official immigration documents

Exclusive: Demand grows for an investigation into the presence of the n-word in official documents after The Independent exposed a string of slurs being used by the DWP, the Met Office, the Royal Collection, and now immigration tribunals

The Independent UK

Labour MPs launch bid to block Keir Starmer over two-child benefit cap

Labour leadership expecting to face vote this weekend in policy forum

The Independent UK

Now the royal family is dragged into the n-word race row

Exclusive: Offensive slur used more than 40 times in Royal Collection guide – and only removed after investigation by The Independent

The Guardian - UK

Labour urged again to vow to scrap Tories’ two-child benefit limit

Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children

The Independent UK

New n-word slur found on government website

Exclusive: A parliamentary question has been submitted calling for a government-wide investigation into official documents

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak to be told to scrap 'cruel' two-child benefit policy in PMQs confrontation

The Labour MP Kim Johnson, who will raise the issue in the Commons on Wednesday, said the controversial policy that restricts benefits is 'as cruel as it is ineffective'

Liverpool Echo

'Illegal eviction' attempt at Toxteth flats raised in parliament

MP Kim Johnson said residents "rightly say that their sense of security has been fundamentally shaken."

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