Tuesday saw more Labour rebels sign the amendment which aims to kill the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.

The total number of signatories is now 134, which includes:

  • 127 Labour MPs (including two suspended)
  • 5 DUP MPs
  • 2 independent MPs

There’s a full alphabetical list at the end of this article.

It’s also been suggested that one Labour MP has removed their name from the amendment as whips and ministers pile pressure on rebels to get back into line, though we haven’t identified which MP this might be.  Update:  one name missing from the latest list is Samantha Niblett, the Labour MP for South Derbyshire.

Tory offer to support the bill

Kemi Badenoch offered to give Tory support to the beleaguered bill, but with three conditions:

  • Reduce the cost of welfare more than this bill does
  • Get more people into work
  • Guarantee no new tax rises in the Autumn

Labour rejected the offer in what appeared to be an ugly and unprincipled episode of bartering with the lives of disabled claimants.

London mayor backs rebels

London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has called on the government to drop the bill until a proper system of support has been put in place, arguing: 

“I have always said that more must be done to support people to go from relying on benefits to getting back into work. It’s vital for a healthy and prosperous London. What we can’t do is take away the vital safety net that so many vulnerable and disabled Londoners rely upon.”

Starmer unmoving

Keir Starmer is refusing to give ground to the Labour rebels.  He told reporters yesterday “We’re pressing on with a vote on this because we need to bring about reform.”

Elsewhere, there are rumours he is considering postponing next Tuesday's vote in order to gain time to win rebels round.

Timms to face work and pensions committee

Stephen Timms, the DWP disability minister currently working on rewriting the PIP eligibility criteria, is to face questioning by the commons work and pensions committee from 9.43am today.  You can watch him on parliament tv

Full alphabetical list of the MPs who have signed the amendment

Abbott, Ms Diane

Abrahams, Debbie

Al-Hassan, Sadik

Ali, Tahir

Allin-Khan, Dr Rosena

Arthur, Dr Scott

Baker, Richard

Bance, Antonia

Barker, Paula

Barron, Lee

Beales, Danny

Beavers, Lorraine

Begum, Apsana

Betts, Mr Clive

Billington, Ms Polly

Bishop, Matt

Blake, Olivia

Brash, Mr Jonathan

Burgon, Richard

Burke, Maureen

Butler, Dawn

Byrne, Ian

Cadbury, Ruth

Campbell, Mr Gregory  (DUP)

Coleman, Ben

Collinge, Lizzi

Cooper, Andrew

Cooper, Dr Beccy

Craft, Jen

Creasy, Ms Stella

Davies, Paul

De Cordova, Marsha

Dean, Josh

Dhesi, Mr Tanmanjeet Singh

Dixon, Anna

Duffield, Rosie (Independent)

Duncan-Jordan, Neil

Easton,  Alex (Independent NI)

Eastwood, Colum

Eastwood, Sorcha

Eccles, Cat

Edwards, Lauren

Efford, Clive

Ellis, Maya

Entwistle, Kirith

Eshalomi, Florence

Evans, Chris

Fenton-Glynn, Josh

Ferguson, Patricia

Foster, Mr Paul

Foxcroft, Vicky

Francis, Daniel

Furniss, Gill

Gardner, Dr Allison

Gilbert, Tracy

Gwynne,  Andrew (Labour suspended)

Hack, Amanda

Haigh, Louise

Hall, Sarah

Hamilton, Fabian

Hamilton, Paulette

Hanna, Claire

Hayes, Helen

Hillier, Dame Meg

Hinchliff, Chris

Hume, Alison

Hurley, Patrick

Hussain, Imran

Jermy, Terry

Jogee, Adam

Johnson, Kim

Jones, Lillian

Jones, Ruth

Kelly Foy, Mary

Khan, Afzal

Lamb, Peter

Lavery, Ian

Leishman, Brian

Lewell, Emma

Lewis, Clive

Lockhart, Carla (DUP)

Long Bailey, Rebecca

Maskell, Rachael

McDonald, Andy

McDonnell, John  (Labour suspended)

McKenna, Kevin

Midgley, Anneliese

Mishra, Navendu

Mohamed, Abtisam

Morris, Grahame

Mullane, Margaret

Myer, Luke

Naish, James

Naismith, Connor

Newbury, Josh

Nichols, Charlotte

Onn, Melanie

Opher, Dr Simon

Osamor, Kate

Osborne, Kate

Owen, Sarah

Paffey, Darren

Pitcher, Lee

Platt, Jo

Quigley, Mr Richard

Qureshi, Yasmin

Ranger, Andrew

Rhodes, Martin

Ribeiro-Addy, Bell

Riddell-Carpenter, Jenny

Rimmer, Ms Marie

Robertson, Dave

Robinson, Gavin (DUP)

Rushworth, Sam

Shah, Naz

Shannon, Jim (DUP)

Smith, Cat

Sobel, Alex

Stainbank, Euan

Stewart, Elaine

Sullivan, Kirsteen

Swann, Robin

Trickett, Jon

Tufnell, Henry

Turner, Laurence

Vaughan, Tony

Webb, Chris

Western, Matt

Whittome, Nadia

Williams, David

Wilson,  Sammy (DUP)

Witherden, Steve

Yang, Yuan

Yasin, Mohammad

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    · 1 months ago
    Jessica Elgot from The Guardian reporting on her X page this evening:- EXC - No10 is set to offer concessions to Labour rebels on welfare. Talks are ongoing but changes could be made to the Pip reforms.  A number of cabinet ministers are now said to believe the bill has no chance of passing in its current form.
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      · 1 months ago
      @YogiBear
      "Talks are ongoing but changes could be made to the Pip reforms"

      Again, no mention of making UC Health dependent on PIP, which would be a catastrophe for those of us who get LCWRA but not PIP. I'm increasingly concerned about the possibility that they get this through by watering down the PIP descriptor changes but still go ahead with making UC Health dependent on PIP. If that happens, people in my position will be left without the means to survive. According to this:


      there are 600,000 people who get LCWRA but not PIP (it's about half way down, under the heading "Scrapping the Work Capability Assessment as well as tightening eligibility for PIP risks a ‘double whammy’ income loss for some"). I fear MPs will think that if the PIP changes are watered down then everything will be fine - it won't. 600,000 is an awful lot of people.
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    · 1 months ago
    I can see my local MP Anne Turley (Redcar & Cleveland) refuses still to not back us Disabled people, this after her first email I received saying she was backing Labour changes then I wrote again to get no reply. OK Anne Turley I hope you have a safe job NOT. I also hope none of your family are that unwell with illness or disability that they never require PiP now or in future.
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      · 1 months ago
      @Charles Newlands I have seen her on tv a few times and she always came across as ME ME ME it’s all about ME!
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    · 1 months ago
    Email sent to my Lib Dem MP:

    Dear Anna,

    Why have no Liberal Democrat MPs signed the Reasoned Amendment to the Pathways to Work bill?
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      · 1 months ago
      @Gingin I believe the Lib Dems are putting down a very similar amendment of their own, which is bloody annoying because it makes it less likely that the amendment signed by 120+ Labour MPs will be called. Even Labour MPs who intend to vote against the cuts won't want to back an opposition party amendment, so it gives Hoyle a way to help the government by selecting the Lib Dem amendment and not the main one. If that happens then it will go straight to a vote on the bill and the Lib Dems will vote against the government at that point, but I really wish they'd withdraw their amendment and sign the main one instead. Other parties have - the SNP, Greens, Plaid, SDLP, DUP and independents - so why the Lib Dems can't I really don't know.
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      · 1 months ago
      @Gingin My guess is that, as ever, the Lib Dems are hedging their bets, waiting to see which way the tornado is blowing come crunch time. They were always moral cowards waiting for an identity, allowing themselves to be led by the prevailing winds. 
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    · 1 months ago

    Number 10 set to offer concessions to welfare rebels

    This makes me nervous, because with all the focus on the PIP descriptor changes I fear those of us who are on UC LCWRA but not PIP - and therefore stand to lose the UC Health element if it becomes dependent on PIP - will be forgotten, as we seem to have largely been forgotten throughout this whole sorry saga. 

    The article does say that "MPs also want to see changes made to other reforms affecting the health top-up for universal credit which applies to those who cannot work." That's good, but it would be a disaster if MPs agreed to vote for the bill on the basis of a concession which just affected the level of the UC Health element, because it doesn't matter what the level of it is if they still change the rules so you don't qualify for it at all.  
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      · 1 months ago
      @tintack I know the feeling coz I'm in that position myself UC/LCWRA and that's it so if it's ignored in the upcoming kickoff then I'm seriously screwed
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    · 1 months ago
    this is From the national 2hrs ago 

    Meanwhile, the Tories seem unlikely to lend the Government their support, with leader Kemi Badenoch setting out conditions for doing so including a commitment to rule out tax rises in the autumn budget and further cut the benefits bill.

    Labour will not do what Tories ask  they hate blame them for everything  and they wont  call another election or do what threats they tell MPs the pm is looking desperate and they trying to make deal with MPs it won't work .
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    · 1 months ago
    ‘A number of cabinet ministers are now said to believe the bill has no chance of passing in its current form, though some are still being deployed to speak to angry MPs in an attempt to win them over.

    Keir Starmer is expected to begin speaking to MPs directly after returning from the Nato summit on Wednesday evening.

    …One senior government source said concessions would be presented to MPs by Friday at the latest, in order to give the prime minister time to consider them and then to give MPs time to reflect on them over the weekend.’


    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/25/keir-starmer-dismisses-labour-welfare-cuts-rebellion-as-noises-off
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    · 1 months ago
    Some of you might like a look at tomorrow's front pages...

    https://news.sky.com/story/fridays-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754
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    · 1 months ago
    According to Sky, rebel MPs are being told that losing the vote will trigger a leadership contest.  Labour should be ashamed - what happens to the leader of the party is not important when people are losing thousands of pounds. 
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    · 1 months ago
    The pm apparently rejected Tories offer don't know what to believe but apparently he said it their fault and that they need to clean the mess Tories left the media spits  alot and it only on the day people will know whats happening they are panicking but the media  don't help spreading fear and churnalism .
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    · 1 months ago
    650 MPs

    639 of those vote ( 11 don't for various reasons)

    134 Current names on the list;

    1 Alliance
    2 SDLP
    2 Independent

    Labour have a 165 seat majority.  So even if all the other MPs/ parties vote against atm Labour would still have a 38 seat majority..... 

    I really hope those numbers have increased since this article was last updated. 

    I hope there's a few more with a heart and sn actual moral compass not just pretending cuts are moral. ( that probably makes no sense. )

    What happens if it bill passes but by a small majority? 

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      · 1 months ago
      @SLB Yes, all makes sense. I was only basing my rough number on only those who have signed the amendment but I think that's wrong too. 🙈 anyway hope Sir Kier gets toppled- he's only PM as people voted the tories out not him in. But there's really no credible alternative..... God forbid we end up with reform. 


      Such scary scary times- it'll be very interesting to see what concession they offer seeing as Rachel from accounts still needs her 5billion. 


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      · 1 months ago
      @Arthritic Annie If all non Labour MPs vote against the government. Labour have a working majority of 165. If 83 of Labour's MPs vote against the government or 165 abstain the government can only win due to non Labour MPs supporting the government.

      To win on that basis puts Starmer's position as leader into question as his inability to lead his own party would be making his massive majority government in effect a minority government dependent on non Labour MPs. 
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      · 1 months ago
      @Arthritic Annie It is not about the vote, it is about the Labour unity. Even if the bill passes, Starmer will face a bumpy road ahead and his tenure will be in doubt. Remember, MPs are so sensitive to dictatorship and that happened with Boris Johnson years ago. 
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      · 1 months ago
      @Arthritic Annie Your calculations are wrong (sorry).  You need to take 129 OFF the Labour numbers and then ADD them to the other parties voting against.   You're currently counting only doing the first part, so it's basically as if they're abstaining.

      So, Labour has 403 MPs, but 129 voting against, so that leaves with 274 Labour Mps voting for the bill.  And that 129 is then added on to the opposition parties (which is the bit you missed out.).  That would mean:

      Voting for (Labour): 274 non-rebelling MPs.
      The rest of the Commons voters (opposition parties + Labour rebels):  365. 

      So, theoretically, Labour could lose by close to a hundred. 

      BUT we don't know how the Tories will vote.  If they vote in favour, their 120 MPs basically cancel out the 129 Labour rebels, and we lose.   Likewise, if the Tories abstain, the govt would win the vote 274 vs 245 (365-120).

      It's also worth remembering that this is only the 2nd reading.  There's another vote to come afterwards if the govt sneak through.

      I hope that makes sense - I'm no Johnny Ball!!


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    · 1 months ago
    Peston: Whatever the outcome is on welfare reform, Starmer and Reeves lose

    https://www.itv.com/news/2025-06-25/peston-on-welfare-reform-starmer-and-reeves-lose-whatever-the-outcome
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    · 1 months ago
    This has just been posted by someone from disability rebellion on X
    The list of MPs on the amendment are now at 162.

    The UC and PIP amendment list is updated on tomorrow’s (Thursday) order paper.

    The new total is 162 MPs.

    I’m unsure if any have been removed as I’ve literally just got the list now.

    Dame Meg Hillier
    Debbie Abrahams
    Helen Hayes
    Sarah Owen
    Florence Eshalomi
    Paulette Hamilton
    Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
    Cat Smith
    Ruth Cadbury
    Patricia Ferguson

    Ruth Jones
    Louise Haigh
    Vicky Foxcroft
    Olivia Blake
    Anneliese Midgley
    Antonia Bance
    Laurence Turner
    Anna Dixon
    Dawn Butler
    Yuan Yang

    Richard Baker
    Kirsteen Sullivan
    Lee Barron
    Mr Jonathan Brash
    Ms Stella Creasy
    Ben Coleman
    Mr Clive Betts
    Matt Bishop
    Sadik Al-Hassan
    Abtisam Mohamed

    Lee Pitcher
    Lauren Edwards
    Tony Vaughan
    Connor Naismith
    Matt Western
    Paul Davies
    Charlotte Nichols
    Kate Osamor
    Chris Webb
    Josh Fenton-Glynn

    Sarah Hall
    Dr Scott Arthur
    Tracy Gilbert
    Gill Furniss
    Dr Beccy Cooper
    Adam Jogee
    Maya Ellis
    Alison Hume
    Daniel Francis
    Jo Platt

    Patrick Hurley
    Kirith Entwistle
    Henry Tufnell
    Darren Paffey
    Yasmin Qureshi
    Mohammad Yasin
    Peter Lamb
    Elaine Stewart
    Dr Allison Gardner
    Lillian Jones

    Marsha De Cordova
    Kevin McKenna
    Clive Efford
    Lizzi Collinge
    Melanie Onn
    Andrew Cooper
    Fabian Hamilton
    Ms Polly Billington
    David Williams
    Mr Richard Quigley

    Ms Marie Rimmer
    Sam Rushworth
    Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
    Emma Lewell
    Richard Burgon
    Kate Osborne
    Rachael Maskell
    Amanda Hack
    Rebecca Long Bailey
    Bell Ribeiro-Addy

    Paula Barker
    Cat Eccles
    Jon Trickett
    Dr Simon Opher
    Ian Lavery
    Neil Duncan-Jordan
    Apsana Begum
    Chris Hinchliff
    Ian Byrne
    John McDonnell

    Nadia Whittome
    Ms Diane Abbott
    Kim Johnson
    Andy McDonald
    Brian Leishman
    Imran Hussain
    Euan Stainbank
    Lorraine Beavers
    Steve Witherden
    Mary Kelly Foy

    Clive Lewis
    Jen Craft
    James Naish
    Terry Jermy
    Grahame Morris
    Navendu Mishra
    Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
    Tahir Ali
    Claire Hanna
    Dave Robertson

    Josh Newbury
    Sorcha Eastwood
    Colum Eastwood
    Mr Paul Foster
    Robin Swann
    Andrew Gwynne
    Andrew Ranger
    Danny Beales
    Luke Myer
    Margaret Mullane

    Naz Shah
    Josh Dean
    Rosie Duffield
    Alex Easton
    Martin Rhodes
    Afzal Khan
    Maureen Burke
    Chris Evans
    Gavin Robinson
    Mr Gregory Campbell

    Sammy Wilson
    Jim Shannon
    Carla Lockhart
    Alex Sobel
    Irene Campbell
    Siân Berry
    Carla Denyer
    Ellie Chowns
    Gareth Snell
    Mary Glindon

    Liz Saville Roberts
    Ben Lake
    Ann Davies
    Llinos Medi
    Sarah Edwards
    Adrian Ramsay
    Pam Cox
    Shockat Adam
    Ayoub Khan
    Mr Adnan Hussain

    Iqbal Mohamed
    Jeremy Corbyn
    Stephen Flynn
    Pete Wishart
    Kirsty Blackman
    Brendan O’Hara
    Stephen Gethins
    Chris Law
    Dave Doogan
    Seamus Logan

    Graham Leadbitter
    Mr Toby Perkins
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      · 1 months ago
      @Anniesmum From what I've seen on X, the number of Labour MPs on the list is 141.  I haven't checked that one by one, I'm just going from someone else's calculations.   This means (according my calculations), if all Tories abstain (which might happen), we need another 18 Labour MPs voting against for us to win the vote.   And, I forgot to say, thank you for posting the list.  :)
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      · 1 months ago
      @Anniesmum great news
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      · 1 months ago
      @Anniesmum Just to confirm that not everyone on this list is a Labour MP.  There are Greens, independents, and SNP MPs included here, so I don't think the Labour MP numbers have gone up substantially today, which is quite important.  
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    · 1 months ago
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kemi-badenoch-starmer-labour-welfare-cuts-benefits-b2776394.html

    Would starmer be shamed knowing that the bill will pass only by cons. voting?

    Labour supposedly to be in on-going talks on more concessions, what anyone reckon 14 week Transitional period 🤔🙃

    Let's 🙏 it gets pulled 
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      · 1 months ago
      @GLB It's not a question of whether he would be shamed (he wouldn't). The problem he would have is that winning by relying on Tory votes when he couldn't convince enough of his own MPs would be massively politically damaging, especially when it's on a bill which is so controversial. As I said elsewhere, the firestorm that would trigger in the Labour party would be visible from space.
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    · 1 months ago
    Why suddenly at 9.25pm is the welfare story top of BBC news website. Is some announcement about to break? I've not noticed it high up on their page most the day.
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    · 1 months ago
    It would help if GPS did pip assessment and not captia and the
    Others ones they come to your home stay for short time treat you like scum then get no points even with medecel evidence 
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    · 1 months ago
    There are rumours that the Tories will vote the legislation next week.  And yet Tory shadow benefits minister Helen Whateley was on Sky news this morning, making it clear that they will only vote with the govt if their three conditions are met - and there's no way Starmer can meet them.  Most interesting, though, was her comments about the bill, criticising that it takes aim at (often older) people with physical disabilities and chronic health conditions insetad of youngsters with supposedly minor mental health issues. 

    Now, I don't have the foggiest how someone with a minor mental health condition gets the benefit anyway.   As I was saying to someone on X this afternoon, there might people in the stats who have certain mental health condition, but that doesn't mean that it's that condition that they are getting PIP for.  It's likely a co-morbidity.  If you're chronically ill, then you are likely to have mental conditions at the same time, but it doesn't mean you're getting PIP because of it.

    I honestly think the Tories are a distraction at this point.  If Starmer is going to have 100+ of his own MPs voting against him, the optics are so bad that its unlikely to go forward.  This is only the first vote.  There's another to come after that.  And normally this first vote is the easiest for the govt!
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      · 1 months ago
      @SLB "Now, I don't have the foggiest how someone with a minor mental health condition gets the benefit anyway."

      That's easy: they don't. Still doesn't stop obvious right-wingers claiming that they know a James Bond-esque figure who happily defrauds DWP for 10k a month by citing "I'm sad"-itis, drives a Rolls Royce and happily brags about spending 10 months of the year at their timeshare in Ibiza on social media. Oh, and they sell counterfeit goods on eBay on the side and don't report their earnings.

      And when you ask why they haven't reported these people yet because they clearly know something DWP doesn't because the fraud statistics clearly don't reflect the sheer amount of these anecdotes I encounter? "I'm not a grass!"

      OK, so you either spend your free time cooking up fantasies on the internet or you're an accomplice to benefit fraud. Truly productive members of society. Where can I sign up to be exactly like them as opposed to some loser on benefits? /sarcasm

      Another issue is that - with all due respect - you're on X. This is just the kind of people who inhabit it. Bluesky's userbase is a lot more sympathetic at least. 
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    · 1 months ago
    There seems to be various theories as to what happens now.  On Politics Live this morning, there was the overall feeling that the bill would be pulled prior to the vote.  Meanwhile, Robert Peston is saying that there will probably be concessions.  But I don't think the rebels are likely to accept a concession such as a year-long transition period, because it's still just putting off pushing us off the edge of the cliff financially.  As Trump would say, they hold all the cards right now.  

    There are still some unanswered questions.  Will the Tories actually vote with the govt?  The general feeling on media outlets seem to be that Starmer won't want to meet Badenoch's demands - not least because it would put her in charge of the nation's pursestrings instead of him.  If the Tories vote with the cuts anyway, Starmer would be humiliated. 

    And remember this is only the first of two votes.  Even if the govt gets through the vote next Tuesday, the various debates in the Commons might well persuade more people to vote against, as some MPs will actually hear for the first time real stories of what the cuts could do.  Look what happened with the assisted dying vote - the votes against went up in the final vote.

    But with the govt not knowing what the Tories will do, it seems impossible how they could let the vote go ahead.  But, if the bill or vote is pulled, there is talk it could get wrapped up into the budget, which means it would almost definitely go through.  Budgets are essentially confidence votes.  Alternatively, Starmer could bring the bill back in the autumn, but with more impact assessments published by then, that seems unlikely.  

    And how would all of that affect the timing?  Presumably it would push start dates back - it was those ambitious start dates that made them present the bills now.  What's more, if those dates are pushed back, it looks even worse for Labour.  The start of the new rules would be in 2027, so the first people would lose their benefits in 2028 - one year before an election.  

    Somehow, somewhere, they will have to find benefit cuts, even if they shelve the current ones.  They have options - a disabled benefit cap, perhaps?  Means testing PIP?  Adding a third, lower level of Daily Living PIP?  That said, while we would all feel the effects of those, the loss of income is unlikely to be that which we are facing now.   We might be looking at winning the battle, but the war is likely to be a long one, and at some point some form of cuts are going to go through - either through the Labour govt or a more right wing one in three or four year's time.
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      · 1 months ago
      @SLB
      "But, if the bill or vote is pulled, there is talk it could get wrapped up into the budget, which means it would almost definitely go through. Budgets are essentially confidence votes."

      They would have to be insane to pull a stunt like that. There is clearly already a huge amount of bad blood between the leadership and the backbenches already. They may think they've got problems now, but if they tried something like this as a way to railroad MPs they couldn't convince the resulting firestorm would tear the party apart. It's the sort of move which Sir Humphry Appleby would describe as "very courageous".
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    · 1 months ago
    Even if the reforms stumble through, one leading rebel predicted dire consequences.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0z45d641do
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    · 1 months ago
    Tell you what - I reckon that if all the contributors to these B & W pages got together to form a political party - we could not do any worse than the current labour leadership.

    In fact there is an awful lot of common sense written on these posts.

    Oh yes - and I'm sure that we wouldn't buy aircraft from Trump.


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    · 1 months ago
    This article analysing DWP research into disabled people in work gives interesting stats for those campaigning. B&W could do something on it maybe? https://t.co/hCeUpsGtCn 

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