Max Kendix
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1 day ago |
thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Max Kendix |Aubrey Allegretti
Few figures in Reform UK were more evangelical about the prospects of Nigel Farage as a future prime minister than Zia Yusuf. “Not only will Nigel become prime minister, he will become prime minister with hundreds of MPs who are under no uncertain terms as to why they’re being elected,” the chairman of Reform UK said last year. That unswerving faith in Farage came to an abrupt end last night after Yusuf found himself embroiled in the latest in a series of brutal internal party rows.
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Patrick Maguire |Max Kendix
Two thirds of Labour MPs are opposed to the chancellor’s fiscal rules, and one in five favour tax rises over spending cuts, according to new polling. In a sign of significant discontent on the government benches before next week’s spending review, research suggests a clear majority of Sir Keir Starmer’s backbenchers favour a drastic reset of the government’s economic policy.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Geraldine Scott |Oliver Wright |Max Kendix |Daniel Sanderson
Sir Keir Starmer is facing a revolt from Scottish MPs over welfare cuts amid concerns that Reform is poised to secure a breakthrough in a critical by-election next week. Senior Labour figures are braced for the party to finish third behind the SNP and Reform in the Holyrood by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse. Government whips have been warned by Scottish MPs that they will not back reforms to disability benefits and wider welfare overhauls as a result.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Oliver Wright |Max Kendix
This week could have been very different. On Thursday Sir Keir Starmer was due to be attending a prizegiving ceremony in Germany alongside the great and the good of the European Union. Meetings were arranged on the sidelines with Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, for discussions on illegal migration and Ukraine. On Tuesday all that changed.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Alex Ralph |Tom Saunders |Max Kendix
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EXC: Now up to a quarter of Labour MPs organise to tell ministers concerns on welfare cuts. 80+ MPs have signed another letter due to be sent to chief whip on Monday calling for pause to consider impact on most vulnerable. Dozens more signalling worries. Full story online soon.
EXC: Sir Keir Starmer faces his biggest parliamentary rebellion as around 40 Labour MPs warn his welfare reforms are "impossible to support". Letter seen by The Times calls the move the "biggest attack on the welfare state" since austerity and warns against "more hardship"
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