Gary Gibbon
What’s behind Corbyn’s Brexit offer?
The Labour leadership decided it had to do a bit of a tactical shift in language to calm down very angry MPs from the North of England with pro-Brexit voting constituencies.
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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.
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MPs visit Morecambe in food bank tour for chronic poverty report
MPs were told the UK is a “pressure cooker society” during a visit to Morecambe as part of a tour of Britain’s food banks.
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Universal Credit rollout drastically decreased
Universal Credit was meant to simplify and streamline the existing benefits system but it has been running into trouble for several years. Some claimants have even been forced into destitution. Today the Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd decided to dramatically scale back the next stage of the roll out: from 3 million benefit claimants…
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G20: May arrives in Argentina to sell Brexit around the world
The Prime Minister arrived in Argentina for the G20 summit keen to sell the benefits of Brexit. World leaders met against a backdrop of crisis in Crimea and the Saudi Arabian murder of a dissident journalist, but the European Council President Donald Tusk took the opportunity to say the EU stands ready for “no deal…
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Medical cannabis products now available on prescription
The conditions remain strict: only specialist doctors can prescribe it, and only in rare cases like extreme childhood epilepsy. But many still believe this is a landmark moment in recognising the drug as a mainstream treatment option.
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What do those on universal credit think of the Chancellor’s announcement of more funding?
After much criticism of the rollout of the new universal credit system, the Chancellor is ploughing in more than £2bn to help make the benefit work better, including a £1,000 a year increase in the amount people can earn before their benefits start tapering away.
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Universal credit causing ‘unacceptable hardship’
The Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has admitted the new universal credit system needs to change, after a damning report by MPs.
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Scotland rolls out it’s own version of the DWP
The UK Government’s welfare reforms have been described as a “vehicle for cuts” by the Labour party, as they attempted to force ministers to publish what effects universal credit has had on people’s incomes.
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George Osborne: Theresa May is ‘putting off the hard decisions’ over Brexit
Channel 4 News podcast: Former Chancellor says there will be no Brexit bonus – and admits mistakes on immigration
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Gary Gibbon
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Brexit fears prompt Panasonic to quit UK
Brexit fears have led to the electronics giant Panasonic becoming the latest multinational company to announce it will move its European HQ out of the UK.
