Kemi Badenoch was about to make a speech about restricting non-British nationals' access to disability and sickness benefits, another instalment of her toxic quest to divide people into makers and takers.
When asked if he would consider delaying the vote due to the scale of opposition, Starmer replied: "We were elected to change what is broken in our country. The welfare system is broken, and that's why we will press ahead with our reforms."
"It is now devastatingly clear that there is no alternative to discarding this failed experiment... cuts to disability benefits... strip support from citizens unable to independently clothe themselves."
"Iraq on Monday officially banned alcohol in social clubs and hotels—among the last venues serving booze—in what might be the last step in the country's drawn-out process of stamping out alcohol."
