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MPs back non-binding motion to cancel universal credit cut
MPs voted this evening to back a Labour motion to cancel the £20 a week cut in universal credit, but it was something of a hollow victory, as the motion is non-binding. The uplift, which was brought in to support families during the pandemic, will be phased out from September. The Department for Work and…
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Ministers under fire for being unable to explain surge in unemployment among young Black people
MPs have accused the Department for Work and Pensions of being unable to explain why there’s a “shocking inequality” in UK unemployment, after the jobless figure among young Black people soared to more than 41% during the pandemic.
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Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury says raising national insurance tax ‘not the fairest’ way to pay for social care
Earlier we spoke to David Gauke who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Work and Pensions Secretary under Theresa May.
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Paralympics: Thérèse Coffey on excitement of Tokyo 2020
We spoke to the Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey, and asked her about the platform the Paralympics can give, at a time when many disabled people have felt forgotten during the pandemic.
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Rishi Sunak: PM and I are united in making sure our economic recovery is as strong as possible
The chancellor and the prime minister are “absolutely united”, Rishi Sunak has told this programme amid newspaper claims of a row between him and Boris Johnson. Today’s GDP figures were encouraging for the Treasury, with output edging close to pre-Covid levels. But Mr Sunak faces a string of multi-billion pound decisions this Autumn on pensions,…
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FactCheck: Sunak claims Conservatives lowered income inequality before pandemic
The ONS says income inequality reached a 10-year high in the year before the crisis.
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FactCheck: why are countries suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine?
AstraZeneca said the numbers of people reporting serious blood clotting disorders after receiving its Covid vaccine were “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size”.
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Universal credit should have been designed with people ‘who have experience with the system’, Joseph Rowntree Foundation director says
We’re joined by Edward Davies, who’s policy director at the Centre for Social Justice and Helen Barnard, director of the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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Universal credit claimants struggling to get by because of wait for payments, say MPs
People waiting up to five weeks for their first universal credit payments are being forced to choose between having no income or going into debt to get by, according to a new report by MPs.
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Manchester MP says: ‘We’ve had enough’
Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds is the MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, a constituency in Greater Manchester.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s questionable universal credit claim
The government didn’t offer us any evidence that it lifted 200,000 people out of absolute poverty.
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Russia backs reforms to keep President Putin in power until 2036
In Russia – nearly 78 percent of voters have handed President Putin the right to stay in power until the age of 83.
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Damian Green MP: ‘We are facing a horrendous economic catastrophe if we don’t get back to something like normal working as quickly as possible’
We are joined by the Conservative MP and former work and pensions secretary Damian Green.
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‘Longer we stay on lockdown, the more companies will go bankrupt’ – former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith
We spoke to the former Conservative leader and ex work and pensions secretary Sir Iain Duncan Smith and began by asking him what sort of shaped recession he thinks we are looking at.
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Social care ‘tends to be an afterthought – the second class service’, former pension minister says
Earlier Cathy Newman spoke to former pensions minister Baroness Altmann who now campaigns on issues surrounding social care – and Vic Rayner, Executive Director of the National Care Forum.