Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people

Controversial plans to cut personal independence payments (Pip) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs Ministers have left the door open to a humiliating…

UK politics: Unison attacks ‘shambolic’ announcement of NHS England’s abolition – as it happened

Union says staff will have been left reeling after surprise news that body will be scrapped Starmer is now talking about regulatation, and giving examples of where he thinks it…

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls says plans to cut disability benefits ‘won’t work’

Influential Labour figure says cuts ‘not a Labour thing to do’, while George Osborne says when chancellor he resisted move as ‘step too far’ The former shadow chancellor Ed B****…