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Sir Keir Starmer faces the biggest rebellion of his premiership next week when his controversial welfare reforms are voted on in the Commons. After initially securing support for the welfare bill – in principle, at least – a mutiny is building within the parliamentary party at the scale and potential impact of billions of pounds…

UK businesses have been warned by the government to redouble their cybersecurity efforts – as experts warn of increased Iran-adjacent attacks following the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Cybersecurity researchers shared with Sky News details of an increase in action from online actors promoting Tehran taking aim at UK-based organisations, along with American…

Sir Keir Starmer has said a vote on welfare reforms will go ahead next week despite an unprecedented number of Labour MPs expected to rebel. Taking questions from journalists following a speech at the NATO summit, the prime minister was asked by Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby how he can govern the country if…

Angela Rayner has refused to repeat Rachel Reeves’ pledge that taxes will not be increased at the next budget. Standing in for Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs, the deputy prime minister was pressed on warnings from economists that tax rises are looking increasingly inevitable in the autumn to fund the chancellor’s spending plans. Politics Live:…

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. Labour is still reeling over a rebellion by one in four of its MPs on the issue of welfare cuts. How can Chancellor Rachel Reeves…

The government has not done enough to ensure all victims entitled to compensation from the Post Office scandal have applied for it, a report has found. Many current and former postmasters affected by Horizon IT failings and associated miscarriages of justice are not yet receiving fair and timely compensation, according to the report by the…

Foreign criminals in prisons across England and Wales will be deported at an earlier point in their sentence under new government plans. The proposed legislation, to be presented in Parliament today, comes as part of efforts to tackle prison overcrowding. Currently, foreign inmates with no right to stay in the UK are sent back to…

NHS funding will be diverted to working-class communities, the health secretary is set to announce. Wes Streeting is expected to announce the measure as part of the upcoming NHS 10-year plan, set to be focused on closing health inequalities, during a speech in Blackpool today. About £2.2bn will be spent on staff, medicines, new technology…

The UK will buy at least 12 F-35 stealth jets that can carry nuclear warheads in the most significant strengthening of its nuclear capability in a generation, the government has said. Today, Sir Keir Starmer will tell a summit of NATO allies in The Hague that the new squadron will join an alliance mission that…

A £51m border control post built to handle post-Brexit checks on imports will sit empty for now, Wales’s deputy first minister said. Huw Irranca-Davies said the facility at Parc Cybi near the port of Holyhead in Anglesey was commissioned last year to follow the post-Brexit requirements of border controls on imports, including live animals and…