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13 March 2025

  • As many as 8.2 million people have work-limiting health conditions.

    Why is Keir Starmer’s government seeking to cut the benefits bill?

    Labour targeting sickness and disability benefits that have ballooned amid increasingly ageing and unwell population
  • Keir Starmer speaking in parliament.

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: How Labour’s proposed benefits bill cuts could affect the most vulnerable

    In today’s newsletter: The PM has paved the way for the chancellor to overhaul ‘indefensible’ incapacity and disability payments – are there echoes of the Tories’ war on ‘sicknote culture’?
  • Liz Kendall in Downing Street

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour loses its way on benefits reform – Politics Weekly UK

    After months of speculation, the government will soon lay out plans to change the benefits system. John Harris hears from the head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation, Tom Pollard, and the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

12 March 2025

  • Liz Kendall leaving a cabinet meeting

    ‘There is no moral case’: Labour divided over prospect of benefit cuts

    Some feel the party is moving away from the working class, but others argue ministers must show new Labour voters the system can work
  • Downing Street invited Labour backbenchers to meetings on Wednesday, stressing the ‘moral case’ for reforms.

    Keir Starmer could face biggest rebellion over disability benefit freeze

    Exclusive: Dozens of Labour MPs understood to have urged the government to think again

    • The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare plans: betraying the vulnerable

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      UK politics: UK expels Russian diplomat and says Moscow is seeking closure of British embassy in city – as it happened

    • Mental ill-health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says

11 March 2025

  • an arrowed sign saying parking and EV charge point

    ‘Patchy and behind deadline’: MPs attack UK rollout of EV charging points

    Committee warns of serious injustice to disabled motorists and those reliant on public chargers
  • Louise Haigh is promoting an amendment to the employment rights bill

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: MPs highlight ITN’s use of NDAs in employment rights debate – as it happened

    Louise Haigh and Layla Moran cite broadcaster in arguing for amendment that would ban such agreements that stopped staff revealing harassment
  • Woman in office

    Disabled people need help to stay in work

    Letters: Sara L Uckelman says the Labour government has slashed her Access to Work grant despite her circumstances not changing

10 March 2025

  • Keir Starmer

    Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

    PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit
  • Mike Amesbury speaks to media outside a magistrates court in January where he pleaded guilty to assault by beating

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer facing Reform UK byelection challenge as Mike Amesbury quits as MP – as it happened

    Contest in Runcorn and Helsby will be a challenge for Labour
  • Frances Ryan

    Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any

    Frances Ryan
    Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

5 March 2025

  • Marie Tidball MP

    ‘I was devastated’: MP hopes her story will help improve maternity care for disabled women

    Exclusive: Marie Tidball tells of her experiences with NHS as report finds 44% higher risk of stillbirth for disabled women

3 March 2025

  • A learning support assistant teaches a child in a classroom.

    Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    Ministers plan major changes to Send education in England

    White paper being prepared as councils hope for relief from huge deficits in special educational needs budgets
  • composite image of people wearing maga caps with red stars on their mouths

    ‘The basis of eugenics’: Elon Musk and the menacing return of the R-word

    The slur is rooted in the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. Its resurgence threatens the fragile progress we’ve made
  • Manisha Kumari Mahto, photographed for Everyone is Good at Something, was born with cerebral palsy. She loves listening to songs and trying to dance to them

    ‘I focus on the person, not the disability’: the photographer on a mission to make India inclusive

    After spending four years meeting people all over the country, Vicky Roy’s new book, Everyone is Good at Something, contains 100 inspirational life stories to raise awareness and combat taboos

2 March 2025

  • A young girl looking out of her bedroom window

    Young people with cancer in England face seven-month wait for disability benefits

  • longcovid

    ‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten

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