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 to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
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UK Aims to Cut Billions in Welfare Amid Budget Crunch
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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 - 3d -
1mn fewer people to secure health benefits under UK welfare reform
Government measures require a Commons vote that could provoke a rebellion by Labour MPsFinancial Times - 20h -
Starmer axes UK payments watchdog as part of anti-regulation drive
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How to stop the fruitless search for welfare savings
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UK social safety net among weakest in rich world, analysis finds
Think-tank report comes as Keir Starmer seeks to convince Labour MPs to back welfare spending cutsFinancial Times - 5d -
Does cutting benefits actually work?
The government is to set out details of how it will save billions of pounds from the working welfare bill.BBC News - 3d -
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Is The Government Backing Down Over Benefits?
Plans to freeze some disability benefits could be abandoned.BBC News - 2d -
Plan to freeze key disability benefit may be dropped
Many usually loyal Labour MPs had voiced strong opposition to the idea of not increasing PIP in line with inflation, as part of expected welfare cuts.BBC News - 2d -
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Rachel Reeves insists changes to welfare needed
Labour MPs have been expressing unease about the proposed cuts to welfare, ahead of announcements next week.BBC News - 3d -
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Starmer’s ‘Project Chainsaw’: the NHS, Whitehall, welfare
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Reeves meeting regulators in drive to cut red tape
The chancellor will unveil plans to cut bureaucracy as the government continues its bid to slash red tape.BBC News - 1d -
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Rayner and Cooper criticised cuts in ‘tense’ UK cabinet meeting
‘Large minority’ of ministers protested about planned spending reductions in their own departmentsFinancial Times - 4d -
Fed likely to pause rate cuts with clouds gathering over the economy
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Trump’s Clash With Maine Gov. Janet Mills Fuels Tensions Across State
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FCA drops plan to ‘name and shame’ more UK companies under investigation
Financial regulator says it will scrap new public interest test after backlash from the City and government officialsFinancial Times - 6d -
At-a-glance: The key changes to the benefits system
How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans.BBC News - 36m -
Reeves to outline plan to cut regulation costs and boost growth
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What went wrong with the UK’s welfare system?
Factors behind sharp rise in incapacity and disability benefits are complex and at times counterintuitiveFinancial Times - 2d
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