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Like stripes, the right to cry in public must first be earned. The people need to know their leader is otherwise brave and ...
The answer is abundantly clear. It is a Government that is strong on rhetoric but lamentably short on delivery. Take, for ...
There are more than 1.4 million people claiming PIP for “psychiatric disorders”, according to the Department of Work and ...
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For a distinctly unremarkable man Keir Starmer has had quite a remarkable week. First, he managed to pull off that never-seen-before trick of achieving a humiliating victory in Parliament on Tuesday.
After a week in which the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was split over welfare reforms, and a new party was formed by ...
A reader says Rachel Reeves’ tears would be understandable if they were about Labour rebels wrecking her work to reform the benefits system ...
Testing Leadership
In a moment that briefly pierced the steely façade of British parliamentary politics, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was seen ...
The images, video and questions will follow her for the rest of her life. That tear that trickled down the side of her face, the puffy eyes, her hunched back, the tongue rolling around her mouth, the ...
The reasons for Reeves’s distress remain shrouded in mystery: she looked strained but smiled gamely and admitted that she ...
Of course I am aware that Rachel Reeves is no ordinary woman and this is no ordinary workplace – but the reaction was wildly ...