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2 days ago | 
iheartemirates.com | Matt Barbet |Tamara Cohen
June 18, 2025 WOL 👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced new protections in a bill which will attempt to cut benefits to more than three million households. In its current form, the government faces a big rebellion from dozens of Labour MPs over concerns that changes to welfare will drive families into poverty.
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2 days ago | 
news.sky.com | Matt Barbet |Tamara Cohen
Podcast Is Labour heading to war over welfare reforms?
Wednesday 18 June 2025 17:05, UK
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1 week ago | 
news.sky.com | Tamara Cohen
The government has told MPs it will not back down from its controversial reforms to disability benefits, which are set to be introduced to parliament later this month. More than 100 Labour MPs are thought to have concerns about the plans to cut nearly £5bn from the welfare bill by restricting personal independence payments (PIP) and the health top-up to Universal Credit. Charities say the changes will have a "catastrophic" effect on vulnerable people.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.sky.com | Tamara Cohen
Barely a day after lift-off for the Strategic Defence Review, there are serious questions about whether the government needs to go further. It's no surprise the 32-member defence alliance - facing its greatest twin challenge since the end of the Cold War - is calling for more money. With Russia bringing war to Europe, and Donald Trump making clear the US is not willing to fund its security indefinitely, countries are already stepping up like never before.
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3 weeks ago | 
iheartemirates.com | Tamara Cohen
May 26, 2025 WOL Kosovo will be one of the countries asked to take failed asylum seekers from the UK as part of the government’s plan for “return hubs” abroad, according to reports. The Western Balkan country is on a list of nine countries drawn up by the government of potential places to deport illegal migrants who have exhausted all avenues of appeal for asylum in the UK, according to The Times newspaper.
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1 month ago | 
news.sky.com | Tamara Cohen
The UK has suspended trade talks with Israel, in protest at what David Lammy called the "intolerable" conditions in Gaza, which he said would leave the population at risk of starvation. This suspension, with immediate effect, is a political signal that the Israeli leadership is increasingly isolated even among its allies; and intended to ratchet up the pressure to let aid in. It comes with a step change in the UK's language on the humanitarian situation.
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1 month ago | 
news.sky.com | Tamara Cohen
Sir Keir Starmer used the opulent surroundings of London's Lancaster House to declare with certainty that this is a "landmark deal" that will grow the British economy and put money in people's pockets. It is evidence, the prime minister said, of Britain back on the world stage. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Antonio Costa addressed him as "dear Keir". Times have changed.
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1 month ago | 
news.sky.com | Tamara Cohen
Two other Balkan countries seen as potential destinations for UK migrant returns say they have not been asked by the UK. Sir Keir Starmer revealed on Thursday at a news conference with the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama that the UK "is in talks with a number of countries about return hubs". But the president of Kosovo and prime minister of North Macedonia - both in the western Balkans, a key migration route from Asia and Africa - told Sky News they had not been asked.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Tamara Cohen
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1 month ago | 
news.sky.com | Tamara Cohen
Sir Keir Starmer used his first visit to Albania to announce the UK is keen to set up "return hubs" to deport migrants. Their prime minister, Edi Rama, said he remained "loyal" to their "marriage" with Italy - relations with other countries are "simply love". The Conservatives say the trip is therefore an embarrassment for Sir Keir. His team say this was never on the agenda for this trip, which is about joint policing and intelligence sharing. First of all, what are return hubs?
