Steve Witherden says the Spring Statement "strips benefits from our most vulnerable".

There has been some unease in Labour's ranks over the planned savings in the welfare budget.The government's newly published ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said a Labour Treasury Minister was “clumsy” when he compared benefits paid to people with ...

Labour was the party that created the welfare state. Now it is intent on cutting it back. And in Liz Kendall, the government has found a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly entirely ...

The Labour Government will preside over a long-term surge in migrants as more of them remain in the UK, the fiscal watchdog ...

Communities who build solar panels and wind farms should benefit from lower energy bills, Labour’s energy minister has said.

Reeves’ was the most pro-war speech made by any UK politician since World War Two, as she pledged that the Treasury’s coffers ...

Happy spring statement day, one and all. Today’s fiscal event – which is definitely NOT an ’emergency Budget’ – looks set to ...

In its economic forecast published on Wednesday, the OBR said the most “severe” scenario, in which the UK and other nations ...

Campaigners will argue in High Court that UK ministers ignored potential climate impact of oil and gas exploration ...

Delivering her spring statement on Wednesday, the chancellor unveiled a £14bn package to repair the UK economy that included cuts to welfare, prompting criticism from Labour MPs who urged her to ...