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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”.
More than 90 Conservative MPs write to David Cameron urging him to give parliament a national veto over current and future EU laws.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launches an assault on “Chinese-style” welfare reforms being floated by the Tories.
The prosecution case moved onto allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice as the jury returned for the new year. Here are five details that came to light in the first week back.
Immigration is a hot topic. “Go Home” vans appeared on the streets, and now the Times has caused a stir by pointing out that one in 10 babies in Britain is Muslim. But is Britain racist?
Siobhan Kennedy
25-year-old Gemma Jupe has two children, one just weeks old. But she’s being evicted despite paying her rent on time because she’s on housing benefit.
With more and more people in the UK renting property, Channel 4 News asks if rental laws should be changed to protect tenants from being evicted.
Eighty retired New York police officers and firefighters are charged with falsely claiming to have been traumatised by the 9/11 terrorist attacks so they could receive disability benefits.
The government’s pledge to cut net migration to the “tens of thousands” by the next election is impractical and almost certain to be broken, Business Secretary Vince Cable says.
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.
Council tax bills for some of Britain’s poorest households are set to more than double following the withdrawal of government grant.
A Kent landlord has hit the headlines for his plan to evict tenants on housing benefits. As rents keep rising and demand for property grows, Channel 4 News looks at what rights, if any, tenants have.
Are criminal barristers angry at legal aid cuts grumbling fat cats or struggling public servants? FactCheck looks at the evidence. You be the judge.
Gary Gibbon
George Osborne said he wanted to warn about “a dangerous new complacency” that he’d sensed on the economy. Privately, he and others at the top of the Tory party think they may have contributed to this.
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”.