Search results for ‘Benefits’
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Many still in prison six months after India crackdown in Kashmir
While President Trump refused to comment on protests in the Indian capital, he did offer to mediate on the crisis in Kashmir, saying the region had been “a thorn in lots of people’s sides” for a long time.
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Chancellor gives post-Brexit warning to businesses
Food and drink manufactuers have warned that prices will rise after the chancellor promised that Brexit will spell the end of alignment with EU rules.
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Could Harry and Meghan’s split from the royal family modernise the monarchy?
The Queen is said to want the issue of Prince Harry and Meghan’s role resolved ‘at pace’. And tomorrow along with Princes Charles, William and Harry she will hold a meeting to discuss how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex can step back and be financially independent while remaining Royal with all its benefits.
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FactCheck: is Labour’s ‘£6,000 savings’ claim misleading?
FactCheck thinks that almost every figure Labour have used is questionable.
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FactCheck: will the Conservatives ‘send Trump £500 million a week’?
It would cost the health service £500m a week if British patients had to pay the same price for drugs as people in the US do.
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FactCheck: would food be cheaper in a no-deal Brexit?
The government says tariff cuts ‘will mean lower prices in shops’ but experts say these will be cancelled out by no-deal costs.
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Revealed: Families on housing benefit can’t afford to rent 9 in 10 homes in England
Families on housing benefit can’t afford 9 out of 10 privately rented homes in England – pushing many into homelessness.
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FactCheck: Corbyn’s changing Brexit stance
Is Labour now the party of remain?
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FactCheck: Johnson on Scottish taxes
The Prime Minister said Scotland has ‘the highest taxes anywhere in Europe.’
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Glasgow University first institution to pay slave-trade reparations
Glasgow University has become the first UK institution to raise money to pay reparations in recognition of the benefits it gained from the slave trade.
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FactCheck: May wrongly takes credit for disabled jobs rise
The Prime Minister says the increase in disabled people in work is thanks to the government — contradicting the National Audit Office.
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FactCheck: is Labour right that the UK ‘has never been more unequal’?
That was the claim in one of the Labour party’s official leaflets.
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Revealed: Over four million British children are living in poverty – 72% in working households
Figures out today show that there are now more than four million children living in poverty in the UK.
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Welfare contract worth billions up for grabs
Ministers are now looking at overhauling assessments for people applying for health and disability benefits. Outsourced to private companies for multi-million dollar contracts, they’ve long been criticised as” fundamentally flawed’. Now the government is finally looking to transform them, and this programme has learnt it could mean new opportunities for private companies, with a potential contract worth an estimated £3bn up…
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Britain on the breadline: Two MPs tour country on fact-finding mission
Independent MPs Heidi Allen and Frank Field say the Chancellor must end the freeze on benefits when he delivers his spring statement next week.