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Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published
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Rebel Labour MPs delivered their final warnings to the government this week, ahead of yesterday’s publication of a government bill that will cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. A group of 15 Labour backbenchers (pictured) took […]

Government offers three clues that it is set to plough ahead with cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government offers three clues that it is set to plough ahead with cuts to disability benefits
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Labour appears set to plough ahead with billions of pounds of cuts a year to disability benefits, after this week’s spending review failed to offer any suggestion of a U-turn. The government had already given two other major signs that it […]

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern
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Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut spending on their benefits by billions of pounds a year, as they staged a dramatic “die-in” outside a London […]

‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts
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Disabled public figures behind a new campaign to persuade the government to back down on its “inhumane and catastrophic” plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits say they are overwhelmed by the response since its launch. Tuesday’s launch saw […]

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