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PM becomes first to address union conference in 15 years before Mel Stride struggles to rouse revolt in benefit cut vote

Editorial: Ministers have much bigger problems to deal with than principled dissent, and that’s where the government’s attention should be directed

KEIR Starmer was confronted over his refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap by trade unionists – as he said he would make “no apologies”…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday pledged to reset industrial relations strained by widespread strike action, as he became the first UK leader to address the annual meeting of Britain's trade unions in 15 years.

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer addressed the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton on Tuesday, 10 September, after its president warned that a second wave of austerity will boost the rise of the far right in Britain’s left-behind communities.

Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories

PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances

Exclusive: Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed her department has assessed the impact the policy change will have on pensioners living in fuel poverty, but said only that it will be published ‘in due course’

Exclusive: TUC president Matt Wrack tells The Independent the rise of Nigel Farage and summer riots should be ‘a wake up call’ for Keir Starmer to ‘bring hope not austerity’

The Prime Minister’s prediction yesterday that his Government “was going to have to be unpopular” on account of withdrawing winter fuel payments from all but the poorest pensioners is coming true sooner than he would have wished. The general secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, and the head of the TUC,…