PM vows to tackle child poverty with ‘vigour’ amid unease over two-child cap
Seven Labour MPs were stripped of the whip for backing an SNP motion to axe the welfare limit.
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Sunak makes self-deprecating joke about election defeat at Starmer’s first PMQs
Rishi Sunak made a self-deprecating joke in relation to his defeat at the General Election during Sir Keir Starmer’s first Prime Minister’s Questions at the helm. As the Conservative leader wished the UK’s athletes good luck at the Paris Olympics, he mocked himself by stating that they would not be ...
Monarchy’s income rises by £45m as MPs vote against scrapping two-child benefit cap
"It would seem there’s money for kings, but not kids"
Yvette Cooper brutally mocks James Cleverly’s leadership bid
"He's a fifth favourite in the bookies.. He's not even the leading candidate in his shadow home office team"
Slow handclapping heard as call to scrap two-child benefit cap defeated
Nine Labour MPs voted in favour of the amendment against the will of Sir Keir Starmer - along with the Lib Dems, SNP and independents.
Cleverly warns Tories against factional fighting ahead of leadership race
Nominations for the party’s leadership open on Wednesday.
Scrapping two-child benefit cap will be considered, Bridget Phillipson says
Labour has faced consistent pressure to axe the limit, but ministers have previously suggested the fiscal situation means they cannot afford to.
Jeremy Hunt admits Tories ‘would NOT have cut taxes’ as promised if re-elected
Ah, the party of tax cuts, is it? Jeremy Hunt has revealed that any relief the Tories promised to taxpayers was not actually forthcoming.
SNP demands two-child cap be scrapped ‘immediately’
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn branded a Labour taskforce on child poverty as a ‘cynical attempt to kick the issue into the long grass’.