Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

Pressure has been piling on the Labour government, which has been seeking to reform its social benefits program.

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at PMQs on Wednesday (2 July), hours after MPs voted to pass the prime minister’s watered...

Rachael Maskell blamed the chancellor for the scale of rebellion, saying the Treasury had chosen to ‘find savings on the backs of disabled p...

Nearly 900 small-boat migrants arrived in Dover from France on Monday, the latest official figures revealed.

Watering down of legislation represents most significant knock to prime minister’s leadership since coming into power a year ago

The U.K.'s super rich a punitive new tax regime, with potentially severe consequences for the country.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won a vote on his welfare plans on Tuesday at significant political cost as he suffered the bigg...

Keir Starmer has suffered a blow inflicted by his own Labour MPs, but how does it stack up against previous votes under other prime minister...

It’s hard to overstate what an absolute shambles the handling of the Government’s flagship welfare reform has been.After months of political...

Changes to eligibility for the personal independence payment (Pip) will not be made until after a review of the benefit’s assessment process...

Watch live as MPs debate and vote on the Labour government’s welfare bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday (1 July).

Plans to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment have been dropped until after a review of the benefit.

A decision on changes to eligibility for the personal independence payment will not take place before a review of the benefit.

Backbenchers who vote against the government whip today stood behind the PM to win the general election, but now seem determined to march th...