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Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the implications of Andrew Mitchell’s resignation and what it says about the balance of power at the top.
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The government is criticised by the public spending watchdog for the way it has handled preparations for its new universal credit, with ministers unsure how it would work and £34m written off.
The new benefits cap, meaning couples and lone parents can receive no more than £500 a week from the state, is rolled out from Monday. But David Cameron’s Twitter endorsement of the cap backfires.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says better-off older people should hand back benefits like free bus passes and free TV licences if they do not need them.
A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive on a weekly basis begins in London today amid a row over whether it will change behaviour.
As the petition calling for Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week reaches nearly half a million signatures, the man who started it says it has sent “a powerful message to the government”.
Iain Duncan Smith says he could live on £53 a week – but could he? Channel 4 News looks at the numbers and speaks to one woman who is struggling to cope on this amount of money.
When Iain Duncan Smith came to Easterhouse in Glasgow more than a decade ago, he pledged to change the system to help some of Britain’s poorest. But the change has not been what residents hoped for.
As the living wage rises from £7.20 to £7.45, Boris Johnson joins Labour in calling for more employers to boost low wages. But is it bad for business? Channel 4 News investigates.
The arrests of more than 200 leaders of London street gangs in the wake of last year’s riots has led to an increase in “chaos, violence and anarchy” there, a report claims.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the implications of Andrew Mitchell’s resignation and what it says about the balance of power at the top.
Two years after the flagship Big Society idea was born, where do the Conservatives’ new ideas come from – and can they boost the party’s popularity? Channel 4 News investigates.
Jackie Long meets the Remploy employees out on strike over plans to shut 27 of the company’s 54 factories.
There isn’t normally a prime ministerial statement after an informal European Council like this one but one Tory MP told me he was sure there would be an attempt to table an urgent question and drag Mr Cameron to the Commons. “He’d better explain quickly,” one Tory MP said, “or he’s going to get his backside kicked.”
Stephen Hester decides not to take his shares-only bonus of nearly £1m, but is it fair to single him out? Detonating his persona will do nothing to stop another financial crisis, writes Jon Snow.
The government’s plans to charge single parents for using the Child Support Agency are defeated in the House of Lords.