Exclusive: Neil Kinnock says the two-child benefit limit should be scrapped to lift kids out of poverty Former Labour leader says it could be paid for by a tax on assets of the super-rich or extra levies on the top 1% www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Inside Labour's benefits rebellion as Keir Starmer faces biggest revolt yet. "A lot of people have now decided they are more frightened of the voters than they are of the whips," one MP said. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Some parish news — delighted to be promoted today to Deputy Political Editor at The Mirror 🎉

Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

Front page of @DailyMirror on May 8, 1945 - 80 years ago today.

Breaking: Downing Street rules out U-turn on winter fuel payment cut for millions of pensioners www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

NEW: Andy Burnham suggests at @resfoundation.bsky.social event the government should introduce a target for new social homes of at least half a million by the end of the decade. He says it would help "end the housing crisis" and prevent kids from having to put up with "damp and mould"

Benefit claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human’ @DailyMirror spoke to some people about their experience of Universal Credit/PIP benefits www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Benefit claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human’ @DailyMirror spoke to some people about their experience of Universal Credit/PIP benefits www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Elections guru John Curtice writes for The Mirror ahead of next week’s local elections He suggests the Tories face losing hundreds of seats — they have the “most to lose”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Keir Starmer has failed to meet his promise at last year's Lab conference in Liverpool to introduce a "Hillsborough Law" ahead of today's 36th anniversary of the tragedy. No10 says more time is needed for best version of Bill. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage to LBC on his pal Donald Trump's tariff chaos: "I think Trump did too much too soon, rather like Liz Truss did a couple of years ago."

Exclusive: Liz Kendall admits it will be a personal failure if child poverty rates still rising at next election "Child poverty will be going down," she says, despite warning 50k extra kids will be in poverty as a result of last week's benefit cuts www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Andy Burnham tells the Work and Pensions Committee: "Benefits policy in this country is too much - under all governments - been written to create headlines to please certain newspapers and not actually do the job of encouraging the recovery of people to a better position in their life."

Thursday’s @politics.mirror.co.uk front page

Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci, and Arlene Phillips among stars demanding benefit cuts U-turn www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Interesting Cabinet league table of @LabourList readers, who say they are Labour members. Miliband tops survey of most liked member of the Cabinet - with Rayner in second place.   Starmer ranked 17th while Kendall and Reeves only ministers with unfavourable ratings.

NEW: Blackpool MP Chris Webb says PIP cuts will be a "devastating blow for many of my constituents who are already on the edge". He adds: "I will never vote for anything that makes people in Blackpool poorer - and some of these reforms could do exactly that."

Diane Abbott is far from the only Labour MP who believes there isn't a moral case for cutting benefits – opposition stretches well beyond the Socialist Campaign Group. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Labour MP Diane Abbott tells Starmer to drop the "moral" arguments for benefit cuts. "There is nothing moral about cutting benefits for what may be up to a million people," she tells him. "This is not about morality - this is about the Treasury's wish to balance the books" on the back of poorest.

Ministers have recently criticised speculation over benefit cuts as causing anxiety among claimants. Today they have failed to produce an impact assessment alongside their proposed changes. Instead, people will be forced to wait until next week's spring statement. Not sure that line will hold.

Labour MP Debbie Abrahams - chair of the Work and Pensions Committee - says she appreciates difficult financial situation. *BUT* she warns benefit cuts are the largest cuts in social security since 2015 and warns ministers "not to balance the books" on the backs of sick and disabled.

FBU's Steve Wright urges Labour MPs to vote against cuts to disability benefits. He says today: "The government's drastic cuts to disability and welfare benefits are a Thatcherite assault on the welfare state...

Unite’s Sharon Graham to @mirrorpolitics on planned benefit changes: “The government seems to be making the wrong choices… “… Why are we in a situation where we're pitting the poorest against the poorest while wealthiest go relatively untouched?” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

DWP minister Stephen Timms commits in the Commons to publishing a full impact assessment of disability benefit reforms/cuts in "due course".

TUC's General Secretary Paul Nowak on planned disability benefit cuts: “A major lesson from the Tory years is that austerity damaged the nation’s health. We must not make the same mistake again."

"Cuts to benefits don't make jobs - they only make more poverty," says Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan "It feels like a rerun of austerity and I'm worried about that," he adds. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

​NEW: 16 major charities - including Trusell, Scope, and Mind - are warning the government benefit cuts will have a “catastrophic impact on disabled people up and down the country”. In a letter to the Chancellor today, they say 700k more disabled households could be pushed into poverty.

Clear coverage in @politics.mirror.co.uk by @ashcowburn.bsky.social of the recommendations by the UN Committee on Economic, Social, Cultural Rights focused on social security and austerity (and an important aside on overseas development aid). www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Weird, just walked past this on the way to work

Breaking: UN report published this afternoon says the two-child benefit limit should be reversed. It also urges the UK government to "conduct an independent assessment of the cumulative impact of austerity measures introduced since 2010". www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Keir Starmer to Ukraine’s President Zelensky in Downing Street: “I hope you heard some of that cheering in the street — that is the people of the United Kingdom coming out to demonstrate how much they support you, how much they support Ukraine and our absolute determination to stand with you.”

Kemi Badenoch wants 'foreign power' Donald Trump to interfere in UK politics and block government decision www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Keir Starmer: "I'm going to have to let the leader of the opposition down gently. "She didn't feature in my thinking at all, I was so busy at the weekend, I didn't even see her proposal. I think she's appointed herself the saviour of Western civilisation & it's a desperate search for relevance."

Axe two-child benefit limit or face "embarrassing record" of rising child poverty by 2029, Keir Starmer warned by @resfoundation.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It’s finally getting brighter pre-7am 🌞🌞

Ouch. Former Labour Cabinet minister Clare Short to @labourlist.bsky.social - “It splashes money on defence spending and Ukraine and is not focused on bringing peace to Ukraine – and disgracefully, it has still not abolished the two-child benefit cap.

David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, on aid funding being slashed: "The UK government's decision to cut aid by £6billion in order to fund defence spending is a blow to Britain’s proud reputation as a global humanitarian and development leader."

Breaking: Keir Starmer announces a multi-billion pound cut to the overseas aid budget in order to hike defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027.

Keir Starmer will fly into the heart of a storm when he travels to Washington for talks with Donald Trump in what is seen as one of the most important UK-US meetings since the Second World War. My primer ahead of a high-stakes White House visit this week👇

Judge Donald Trump by his actions, not by his words, the new mantra goes. The US just joined Belarus and North Korea in voting against a UN resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Breaking: Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury jailed for 10 weeks after 3am punch www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Billionaires' wealth 'soars by over £230billion in first month of 2025 alone' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Putin-linked cronies 'face ban on entering UK' as huge new Russian sanctions to be announced www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

WASPI women threaten to drag ministers to court over 'unlawful' compensation snub www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Bridget Phillipson chats to The Mirror on roll-out of free school breakfast clubs. She also says upcoming report by child poverty taskforce will consider “all social security measures and all aspects of Universal Credit” (which includes two-child benefit limit). www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

STORY Tory Robert Jenrick forced to correct his own CV - after accusing Labour MPs of embellishing theirs www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"Has anyone asked about the lettuce yet?" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This is the same rhetoric you hear coming from UK government ministers… about Vladimir Putin

Thursday’s Daily Mirror front page