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DWP could means-test PIP, Attendance Allowance and other disability benefits

PIP, Attendance Allowance and other disability benefits could all be affected

Liverpool Echo

DWP fails to rule out means-testing PIP and other disability benefits ahead of Autumn Budget

The new boss at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was questioned in the House of Commons

Nottingham Post

DWP fails to rule out means-testing PIP, Attendance Allowance and other disability benefits

The Autumn Budget is scheduled to take place on November 17 and questions have been asked about any upcoming changes to disability benefits

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DWP does not rule out means-testing PIP and other disability benefits in Autumn Statement this month

DLA, Attendance Allowance and Carer’s Allowance eligibility could be changing.

Daily Record

DWP boss says decision whether to increase benefits will be mid-November at earliest

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride has issued an update regarding the State Pension and benefits uprating decision, stating that it would not be announced until "at least" November 17

Edinburgh Live

New DWP boss confirms State Pension and benefits uprating decision will be mid-November at the earliest

Mel Stride told MPs an announcement will not be made before the Autumn Statement on November 17.

Daily Record

Tory DWP chief rebuked by No10 over his call for maternity rights to be slashed

Mel Stride bizarrely claimed he had never said 'cutting maternity rights will be good for business' - despite his 2012 comments that 'relaxations in protected-employment' laws could be a 'massive shot in the arm for British business'

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Pensions Secretary guarded on whether benefits will rise in line with inflation

Tory MPs were among those applying pressure to the new Secretary of State to make the call ahead of the Chancellor’s autumn statement on November 17.

The Independent UK

New Tory welfare chief said cutting maternity rights would be 'better for business'

Mel Stride, who was appointed as Work and Pensions Secretary last week, complained that rules on leave for new mothers and fathers were too “onerous"

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak expected to keep Hunt as he readies new UK cabinet

LONDON: Rishi Sunak is expected to keep Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor of the Exchequer as he seeks to calm markets and form a united government when he becomes UK prime minister on Tuesday.

The Times of India

Rishi Sunak cabinet: Who could be in new leader’s top team from Jeremy Hunt to Ben Wallace

The next prime minister will start assembling a top team that he will hope can return a measure of stability to the country.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak Cabinet role 'could offer Olive branch to Boris Johnson'

Calling back Michael Gove and Boris Johnson may also be canny political moves to unite the Conservative party

Wales Online

What could Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet look like? From a Boris Johnson return to Dominic Raab revival

What could the new Conservative Cabinet look like under the leadership of Rishi Sunak?

Chronicle Live

What could Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet look like?

The next prime minister will start assembling a top team that he will hope can return a measure of stability to the country.

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UK’s Kwarteng abandons US trip as pressure over economy mounts

The sense of chaos at the heart of government fuels speculation as to whether it can survive, after 37 days in office.

The Guardian - UK

Senior Tory warns Truss economic U-turn must be ‘significant’

Mel Stride says that markets won’t be settled if government’s policy change just ‘nibbles at the edges’

Reuters

UK's Truss sacrifices finance minister, scraps tax plan in fight to survive

British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and scrapped parts of their unpopular economic package on Friday in a desperate bid for political survival less than 40 days into her premiership.

The Guardian - UK

‘Let’s see’: pressure builds for No 10 U-turn on corporation tax

Reversing key plank of her leadership pitch would be much bigger humiliation for Liz Truss than 45p rate U-turn

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Daily Mirror

Rich donor grows Tory pie by paying '£25k' for Liz Truss speech at £1,500-a-head dinner

The party loyalist reportedly pledged the sum for a signed copy of the PM's much-maligned party conference in Birmingham, which saw her mocked for saying the UK needs to "grow the economic pie" and saw her interrupted by Greenpeace protesters

Insider UK

Liz Truss faces growing pressure to rip up tax-slashing plans

An attempt to win over mutinous MPs at a meeting of the 1922 Committee reportedly failed

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss leadership 'in peril' after own MPs turn on her in fiery meeting

The Prime Minister was accused of “trashing the last 10 years” of the Tories’ record at a meeting with backbenchers

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss in fresh peril as senior Tory MPs round on her over economy

PM accused of ‘trashing’ Conservative values and a PMQs performance that was ‘just appalling’

Evening Standard

Liz Truss under mounting pressure to make further tax cuts U-turn

Senior Tory suggests ‘further row back on the tax package’ needed to calm financial markets after PM rules out public spending cuts

The Independent UK

Liz Truss faces revolt as angry Tory MPs demand U-turns on tax plans

Prime minister accused of ‘trashing 10 years of conservatism’ by angry MP

Daily Mirror

Top Tory warns tax cuts U-turn WILL happen as 'pyromaniac' government refuse to back down

Mel Stride, who chairs the influential Treasury Select Committee, says he is among those who expects Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will have to row back further when he announces full financial plans

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