🚨 NEW: The reported concessions include allowing existing PIP claimants to keep payments even if they don’t score 4 points in a single category - though new claimants would still need to meet that threshold [Adam Payne]

🚨Nadine Batchelor-Hunt reveals concessions being floated to appease rebels: -Bringing employment support forward -Allowing existing claimants of PIP to keep their payments politicshome.com/news/article/d…

-“I blame No 10 & the frontbench” -MPs "feel unloved, disrespected & taken for granted" -But one supportive MP hits back: "He’s got to talk to Donald Trump, not me in the f***ing tearoom!” How No 10 Sleepwalked Into A Welfare Crisis Sienna Rodgers politicshome.com/news/article/h…

Labour MP Emma Lewell MP writes for PoliticsHome The House magazine "I don’t want any colleague to feel the regret I have had since 2015. On Tuesday, I will vote against this bill." politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

NEW: My The House magazine cover interview with Commons Leader Lucy Powell, in which we discuss 💬 Getting rid of 'arcane' language 🕹️ Whether the Commons needs electronic voting 💰 Are MPs paid the right amount? 🌹 Will she run for Greater Manchester mayor? politicshome.com/news/article/h…

“Keir has never spoken to me and still doesn’t know my name” Why are Labour MPs, even from the middle of the party and part of the Starmerite intake, still saying this? politicshome.com/news/article/h…

"I knew as soon as I had voted that I had made a mistake. I felt sick" As per Playbook, here's the Emma Lewell MP op ed doing the rounds ahead of Tuesday 'I'll vote against the Welfare Bill — I don’t want anyone to feel the regret I've had since 2015' politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

Key Labour rebel Rachael Maskell who is heading up latest amendment to halt welfare bill's progress tells me: "I have seen the rumour, but you have to ask what is left of this Bill" Adds:"Looks like the Bill we are voting on has no resemblance to what Govt's latest position is?"

Government Offers Major Eleventh Hour Concession On Welfare Reforms It represents another embarrassing moment for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with the legislation having been watered down significantly since it was first announced earlier in the year. politicshome.com/news/article/g…

Mary Kelly Foy MP: "I popped out [of the chamber] for a banana earlier and when I came back in things had changed again". As No 10 makes last ditch attempts to pass its welfare reforms, the changes are being seen as laughable by some MPs politicshome.com/news/article/g…

“No10 has lost control over the Parliamentary Labour Party and they have all the power,” a minister told me a few weeks ago Now, Labour MPs warn of another potential rebellion, this time on SEND If one rebellion worked, why not try another? theguardian.com/education/2025…

-London Councils urges MPs in the capital to push back against government funding reforms -Briefing note seen by PoliticsHome warns of "devastating" cuts to councils politicshome.com/news/article/l…

Education Secretary leads operation to engage Labour backbenchers over potential reforms to SEND system Govt strives to avoid repeat of welfare backlash Meetings go down well w/ potential rebels:"Bridget is a bit smarter than Liz [Kendall]!" politicshome.com/news/article/p…

Labour Peers Want New Rules For Lords Debates After Rise In Midnight Sittings "This is urgent. Us youngsters in our sixties are struggling, but it's not right for those in their eighties & nineties to work up to & beyond midnight" one Labour peer tells me politicshome.com/news/article/p…

Excl: Sir Keir Starmer is having a clear out of MPs he believes to have committed "persistent breaches of party discipline". Multiple sources tell me at least three MPs have so far lost the whip - with more to come this afternoon.

London has rarely been a concern for Labour strategists in recent years. But there is nervousness & growing concern about what awaits them at next year's council elections & experts are warning Labour against "banking" on the capital politicshome.com/news/article/c…

My colleague Zoë Crowther spoke to Britain's First AI MP. While they had a lot to say about politics, the AI version of Mark Sewards also told Zoe about what vegetable he would be, and gave some relationship advice politicshome.com/news/article/s…

London will be prioritised by Reform in council elections next year, with Farage giving instructions he wants at least one candidate standing in every ward Reform is set to target outer boroughs in particular & push policies on crime & membership of GLA politicshome.com/news/article/r…