Aletha Adu

6 days ago | msn.com | Aletha Adu |Kiran Stacey

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6 days ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu |Kiran Stacey

Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit payments, even offering potential rebels the chance to miss the vote altogether. The government is due to hold a vote in June and dozens of Labour MPs are worried it will hurt their constituents and could cost them their seats.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu

A dramatic change looms in Welsh politics, as internal Labour polling suggests Reform UK could unseat the party in key Senedd seats in 2026, sources have said. Labour has led every Welsh government since devolution in 1999, but the new proportional election system makes it easier for Reform to gain a bigger number of seats in Wales than it did in Westminster at the general election. The data circulated within Labour put Reform UK on 25%, with Labour and Plaid Cymru tied on 21%.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu

Donald Trump’s unfolding trade war makes it even more “imperative” for the UK to improve its post-Brexit trading relations with the European Union, Rachel Reeves has said. The government has ruled out rejoining the EU customs union, but the chancellor has insisted the UK wants to improve its trade relationship with “partners in Europe”, given the difficulties British firms have found in exporting their products around Europe.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu

The next vote on legislation to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales has been delayed by three weeks to give MPs on all sides more time to consider its changes, the MP leading the issue has said. The bill, which has undergone a significant number of changes since the initial vote in November, will now return to the Commons on 16 May, instead of 25 April for its report stage and votes if time allows.