to protest against the right-wing government's planned labour market reforms and proposed cuts to the

Tech Week,( Image: POOL/ AFP via Getty Images) The welfare state used to be seen as a bulwark of our

Keir Starmer( Image: Getty) Desperate Keir Starmer defended his unpopular welfare reforms as a

election, seeking a mandate to press on with pro-business reforms. Opinion polls show Macron is likely to

be no more concessions on planned welfare reform.... So we've got to do that basic reform.... The

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This could be done by reducing public spending on reforms to welfare support funding.... He told

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" humiliating U-turn" on welfare reforms.... It’s becoming increasingly apparent that you can’t trust

reference to structural economic reforms, such as changes to labour and land laws, in its manifesto