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JEREMY CORBYN faced dissent from within the shadow cabinet yesterday over Labour’s position on the Tory benefit cap.
Shadow ministers have challenged Mr Corbyn’s announcement that the party will oppose the £26,000-a-year limit on benefits for any family.
In his speech at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, the new party leader said Labour would table amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill which will “remove the whole idea of the benefit cap.”
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
