Jackie Long
Why welfare is a vote winner for Scottish independence
Some of the biggest and boldest promises being made by the Scottish yes campaign are on welfare – but can Scotland afford to be fairer for those on benefits?
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MEP behind Ukip’s welfare policy chased for child support
She’s attacked “feckless” families who want something for nothing, but the Ukip MEP behind the party’s welfare policy owes more than £2,000 in unpaid child support, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Benefits frozen in fresh attack on welfare spending
Working-age benefits will be frozen for two years, Chancellor George Osborne tells the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.
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Jackie Long
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Gary Gibbon
Can Miliband persuade voters he’s tough on welfare?
Labour Ed Miliband is focusing on welfare changes to convince voters he’s not weak leader. But he risks antagonising parts of his party in the process.
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Jackie Long
The unexpected costs of the ‘welfare revolution’
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
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Should Labour be doffing its welfare cap to IDS? – FactCheck
Iain Duncan Smith has been on the airwaves justifying the welfare cap, claiming he’s stopping Labour’s out-of-control spending. Is he justified?
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Gary Gibbon
Welfare – caps and traps
One former Labour cabinet minister said he’d be looking very carefully tonight at the size and make-up of Labour’s rebellion on the welfare trap (sorry, “cap”) devised by George Osborne.
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The truth about food banks: dependency or welfare crisis?
Food banks are “consistently” seeing an increase in demand, a Defra-commissioned report concludes – but what are they and are benefits cuts to blame for their proliferation?
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‘My moral mission’: Cameron defends welfare reforms
David Cameron defends the government’s welfare reforms in the face of criticism and insists they are part of his “moral mission.”
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UK’s top Catholic defends criticism of welfare reforms
Do criticisms of the government’s welfare reforms by Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the country’s highest-ranking Catholic, represent a shift in the church’s position?
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Archbishop of Westminster attacks welfare reforms
Vincent Nichols, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in England and Wales, says the government has torn away the safety net for the poor and hungry, creating a “dramatic crisis”.
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Rise in shoplifting ‘linked to welfare cuts’ – police chief
Northumbria’s police and crime commissioner is the latest police chief to link welfare cuts to a rise in shoplifting, with one force revealing it is treating the crime with a “soft touch”.
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Clegg: ‘Chinese style’ welfare reforms penalise young people
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launches an assault on “Chinese-style” welfare reforms being floated by the Tories.
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Tories split over Osborne’s welfare cuts strategy
Cracks in the government’s welfare strategy open up after allies of Iain Duncan Smith round on George Osborne for announcing a further £12bn in benefit cuts.
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Nick Clegg: Osborne’s cuts to welfare a ‘monumental mistake’
Nick Clegg criticises George Osborne’s plans to fix the British economy with deep cuts to the welfare budget, saying the chancellor is heaping the burden on those with the “narrowest shoulders”.
