The new department will help Brexit minister David Frost and prime minister Boris Johnson to find benefits from leaving the European Union, and its new leader will be paid up to £120,000 per year from taxpayers’ money.
The shadow business secretary said Boris Johnson "must engage on the detail of what is actually happening".
Starmer’s performance went down better than either Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson’s first conference speeches, polling found.
The Labour deputy leader challenged Boris Johnson to apologise for his own ‘racist, homophobic and sexist’ comments.
“I have every sympathy for people who are finding it tough," Boris Johnson said, but any uplift has "got to come out of some people’s pockets.”
Paul Scully urged caution after Boris Johnson said soaring prices were a "short-term problem".
The UN's poverty envoy said Boris Johnson's benefits cut is "deliberately regressive".
253 MPs, including Conservative members, backed the motion, which is likely to be ignored by Boris Johnson.
'I would posit Boris Johnson and David Cameron would have benefited from going to Sheffield University .'