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.”
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
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’


