Starmer Avoids Defeat on Welfare Bill with Last-Minute Concessions

Starmer avoids defeat on welfare bill with last-minute concessions

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has avoided a humiliating parliamentary defeat on key welfare reforms, after making last-minute concessions in the face of...

MPs pass welfare reform bill after last-minute concessions

Watch as MPs voted to pass the Labour government’s welfare bill by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons on Tuesday (1 July).

Government makes big concessions to avoid welfare bill defeat

MPs approved the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill but only after ministers made big changes.

Govt gives rebel Labour MPs last-minute concession to welfare bill

Rebel Labour MPs have been given a last-minute concession to the welfare bill, Sky News understands.

Leading Labour rebel backs welfare bill amid sustained defiance

Meg Hillier to vote for government’s legislation on Tuesday though dozens of Labour MPs still expected to oppose itDowning Street has “listened” and “honoured” the promises it made on changes to the welfare bill, one of the key rebels, Meg Hillier, has said, saying she would vote for the bill on Tuesday.The Treasury select committee chair, who authored the original amendment that would have killed off the government’s flagship welfare changes, o…

Starmer’s attempt at welfare reform roils his party, capping a troubled first year in office

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won a key vote in Parliament Tuesday on his plans to trim welfare spending , but only after diluting the measures to ease intense opposition from within his own party.