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Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft delivers an emotional speech, opening up about the loss of her newborn daughter Veronica, at five days old. Speaking during a Baby Loss Awareness Week discussion in October ...
The Government is to set out the concessions it has made to its welfare reforms in the hope that the climbdown on cuts will be enough to shore up support in a crunch vote. Work and Pensions Secretary ...
As a chess-player she must recognise that she is stuck in zugzwang: if the bill falls, meeting the fiscal rules gets harder. But to pass the bill, MPs are demanding that she ease its impact, also ...
Nine Scottish Labour MPs have signed their names to a Commons bid to halt the Government’s welfare reforms in their tracks, enough to threaten Sir Keir Starmer’s majority. Some 108 MPs’ signatures ...
A damning verdict on the Government’s cuts to disability benefits has been published by more than 100 Labour rebels who are threatening to humiliate Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer by voting down his ...
Vicky Foxcroft, the former Government whip who resigned over the welfare plans, has also signed the amendment. Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle would need to select the amendment when MPs debate the ...
Labour MPs voice concerns about UK welfare cuts, pushing for amendments and consultation before the upcoming vote.
But Vicky is the only frontbencher that I’ve had a conversation with about resigning,” she told BBC Breakfast. She told Times Radio that Ms Foxcroft “did the honourable thing” by standing ...
Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a Government whip because she did not believe the proposed cuts “should be part of the solution”.