The British prime minister had pressed ahead with the proposal, but a parliamentary vote on it was expected to fail.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given way to political pressure and watered down planned welfare reforms to avert ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sharply scaled back planned welfare cuts on Friday to quell a rebellion by lawmakers in ...

T his time last year, Sir Keir Starmer was touring Britain during a general-election campaign with a simple message: “Stop ...

Britain's populist Reform UK party presented plans on Monday to allow wealthy migrants to buy a 10-year residency permit for ...

Labour backbenchers forced the government into a U-turn on its flagship welfare reform policy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Keir Starmer’s U-turn on proposed changes to the welfare system are ‘too little too late’, Labour MP Cat Eccles said, adding ...

Lawmaker, Chimaobi Sam Atu, representing Enugu North and South in the House of Representatives, has defected from the Labour ...

The public isn’t enthusiastic about increasing disability benefit spending – but they’re by no means in favour of cuts either ...

The government has been forced into another u-turn to see off a rebellion. But it really shouldn’t have come to this.

All this is coming from Britain’s center-left Labour Party, which long favored openness toward migrants. That reflected ...

The Labour Party said on Friday that it has received notice from the lawyers representing the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, the ...