
How to organise a government rebellion
Also this week: Fighting for disability rights and Labour at a crossroads.
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Also this week: Fighting for disability rights and Labour at a crossroads.
ByThe Starmer-Reeves regime is bruised, it needs a new comms strategy.
ByWe were elected on a mandate for change. After this welfare fiasco, we must return to that mission.
ByInstead of parliamentary bust-ups, Scottish politicians have found a novel answer to the benefits bill: silence and inertia.
ByMajor tax rises by Rachel Reeves at the Budget are now inevitable.
ByLabour must get a grip on insurgent backbenchers who oppose its welfare bill.
ByThe proposed cuts may produce a dire electoral outcome for the government come 2029.
ByKeir Starmer’s political authority is now on the line.
ByGovernment figures are telling rebels that this vote will be a confidence matter in Keir Starmer.
ByRebel MPs are unimpressed by the government’s “olive branch”.
ByMartin Lewis’s charity has uncovered a false economy within the government’s disability benefit cuts.
ByThis was a masterclass in bad comms.
ByAs many as 40 of Keir Starmer’s MPs are threatening to rebel against benefit cuts.
ByMyths about "scroungers", overdiagnosis and easy solutions are twisting the debate beyond recognition.
ByCan the Prime Minister keep Labour’s fragile coalition together?
ByThe leader of the opposition was outperformed by the Liberal Democrats’ Ed Davey.
ByLabour must not only make benefits less attractive, but make work more so.
ByAs long as economic growth remains anaemic, pressure on spending will endure.
ByRepairing the NHS and social care is the best way to get the long-term ill into work.
ByRight-wing protest songs only benefit the wealthy and powerful.
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