Tensions grow over UK government plan to cut welfare payments
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall prepares to slash spending on health-related benefits
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Starmer suffers cabinet uprising over UK spending cuts
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Keir Starmer defends planned welfare cuts to anxious Labour MPs
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Does cutting benefits actually work?
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Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
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Rising mental ill health behind higher welfare bill, report says
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Is The Government Backing Down Over Benefits?
Plans to freeze some disability benefits could be abandoned.BBC News - 1d -
UK ministers to drop plan to freeze key disability benefit
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Could Starmer be in for a benefits rebellion as tribes clash in his own party?
Labour may have ditched its factional in-fighting - but deep welfare cuts could reignite tensions.BBC News - 2d -
Government’s employment reforms clash with its welfare plans
Jobs market policies could threaten the part-time vacancies that ease people back into workFinancial Times - 5d
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