Going up: grad tax. Going down: IDS?
Vince Cable wil point towards a graduate tax in a speech tomorrow, while Iain Duncan Smith is having a touch time at the DWP, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Work and Pensions minister Iain Duncan Smith wants to stem the flow of immigrants into Britain’s workforce, to give young Brits a better chance on the jobmarket. But can the Government do anything to restrict entry from the EU? FactCheck investigates.
Jamal Osman – a Somali refugee who’s lived in Britain for 12 years – gives his personal reply to Iain Duncan Smith’s call for British firms to recruit British workers, rather than those from abroad.
A call by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith for businesses to recruit jobless British youths rather than migrant workers is impractical and probably illegal, experts tell Channel 4 News.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says “a life on benefits will no longer be an option for somebody”. But Channel 4 News has found figures suggesting that this is already the case.
Channel 4 News looks at the sanctions regime for benefit claimants introduced by Iain Duncan Smith in his Welfare White Paper.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says there will be “no losers” as a result of changing to a Universal Credit when he presented his White Paper to the Commons today. Is he right?
Trading statistics was the order of the day when Douglas Alexander and Iain Duncan Smith went head to head in the Commons, but did the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions get his attack right?
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith tells the long-term unemployed to “play ball” or face losing benefits under proposals contained in the welfare reform white paper.
Vince Cable wil point towards a graduate tax in a speech tomorrow, while Iain Duncan Smith is having a touch time at the DWP, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Iain Duncan Smith says people are living longer and healthier lives than ever. But will plans to raise the state pension age hurt the rich more than the poor?
The Guardian says Iain Duncan Smith claims that at present it is not worth going from the dole into work if the job pays £15,000 or less, but is it true?
Tory members will now decide between the foreign secretary and former chancellor.
As the government prepares to redraw the laws on gambling for the first time in 16 years, families whose lives have been devastated by gambling addiction are fighting for much tougher regulation.
Nine UK citizens, including five MPs, who’ve been sanctioned by China after accusing them of human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslims say they’ll “redouble” their campaigning on the issue.
Ken Clarke and Ian Duncan Smith, two of the most senior, long standing members of the tory party, discuss the state of the Conservatives.