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‘I would have turned to military on day one’ – former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith
Channel 4 News asked Sir Iain Duncan Smith about the government’s target to carry out 100,000 tests a day.
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Weighing up the costs of lockdown is ‘less a science, more of an art’ – Iain Duncan Smith
Earlier Cathy Newman spoke to the former Conservative Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith, who spent six years as Work and Pensions Secretary.
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Nearly half a million apply for Universal Credit in nine days
As almost half a million people rushed to apply for Universal Credit over the last nine days, the Department for Work and Pensions has redeployed thousands of staff to help go through the claims.
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DWP pay out close to £1million to Windrush victims
This programme has learned that the Department of Work and Pensions has had to pay close to a million pounds of unpaid benefits to Windrush victims of the Government’s ‘hostile’ immigration environment.
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Planes, trains, schools and hospitals brought to a standstill in nationwide French strike
Angry workers have clashed with police on the streets of Paris tonight. Authorities have barricaded the presidential palace, the Eiffel Tower is shut and planes and trains, including the Eurostar, have been disrupted as more than 180,000 union members in 30 French cities take part in a national strike.
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FactCheck: the gaps in Labour’s spending plans
John McDonnell says ‘every source of funding is explained’.
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Government Universal Credit adverts banned by watchdog
It’s not the first time the DWP has been criticised for embroidering the truth.
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‘The problem is Jeremy Corbyn, who is clearly a Leaver,’ says Lib Dem peer Sal Brinton
Joining me now are Labour’s Rosie Duffield, who sits on the Department for Work and Pensions select committee, and the president of the Liberal Democrats, Baroness Sal Brinton.
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Philippa Stroud, Social Metrics Commission: ‘Work still best route out of poverty, but it is full-time work’
The research on which the government is basing its new trial of poverty measurement was produced by the independent Social Metrics Commission.
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MPs say single-parent families and disabled people being pushed into poverty
MPs have warned that an “unacceptably bleak” picture is emerging of the impact benefit cuts are having on the most vulnerable people in the country, with single-parent families and disabled people hit the hardest.
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FactCheck: May wrongly takes credit for disabled jobs rise
The Prime Minister says the increase in disabled people in work is thanks to the government — contradicting the National Audit Office.
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FactCheck: Labour contradict themselves on non-disclosure agreements
Here are eight official statements from Labour frontbenchers condemning the use of NDAs.
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Amber Rudd MP: ‘Boris is beatable’
Work and Pensions secretary Amber Rudd is backing Jeremy Hunt.
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FactCheck: Esther McVey’s claim about ‘generous’ UK disability benefits
The Conservative leadership hopeful said the UK is “one of the most generous countries” for disability benefits.
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FactCheck: Theresa May’s slips, u-turns and broken promises
Her time in office will forever be associated with Brexit. But the trials and tribulations of Mrs May’s premiership don’t end there.