Gary Gibbon
Is the PM guilty of Euro-favouritism?
Is the PM favouring departments led by ministers likely to back him over Europe? That’s the concern in Whitehall about how the negotiations with the EU played out.
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Iain Duncan Smith: ‘You haven’t left EU if you don’t leave single market’
Former Conservative Party leader and leading Brexiteer, Iain Duncan Smith, says Britain can’t remain in the single market and the customs union if it is leaving the EU.
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Is Theresa May a ‘dead woman walking?’
The day began with former Chancellor George Osborne describing Theresa May as a “dead woman walking” and her Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon denying the controversial floated deal with the DUP was a formal coalition. It ended with the Prime Minister’s reshuffle of her cabinet and more questions about where this political impasse is headed.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Summer Budget 2015: topsy turvy politics
The chancellor stole some of Labour’s policy clothes in his latest budget announcements, but his tendency to favour old over young has not been altered.
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FactCheck: benefits fraud vs tax evasion
Does this government deal with tax dodgers as robustly as benefits cheats? FactCheck finds out.
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Will Universal Credit restore ‘fairness’ to the system?
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is able to announce Universal Credit would be fully rolled out, but Labour claims it is already a “failed programme” due urgent review.
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IDS: ‘I know what it’s like to look for work’
The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith insists that he does know what it’s like to look for work.
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Paul Mason
Why universal credit won’t be universal until 2018. At the earliest.
Benefit claimants in areas piloting the new universal credit seem to like it. But with its roll-out taking much longer than anticipated, are government hopes for billions of pounds of savings misplaced?
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IDS: ‘We spend more on disabled than most countries’
Why should disabled people feel hard done by? Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says the UK probably spends more on the disabled and sick “than almost any other country in the developed world”.
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FactCheck: how many benefits claimants are addicts?
Iain Duncan Smith wants to see benefits loaded onto cards to stop claimants spending cash on drugs and booze. How big is the problem?
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IDS: ‘Benefits cuts will push people to work’
Iain Duncan Smith, work and pensions secretary, claims benefits cuts will push people to work. Jane Deith finds his plans haven’t gone down well in his own back yard, and Michael Crick speaks to him.
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Government website plagued with bogus and duplicated job ads
The risk of fraudulent, misleading and confusing ads appearing on the government’s Universal Jobmatch website is higher than private equivalents, according to the National Audit Office.
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Reshuffle not just a public school merry-go-round
David Cameron’s reshuffle is an attempt to make a fundamental change in how the Conservatives are perceived by voters, says Paul Mason.
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Jackie Long
What do Richard Gere and Iain Duncan Smith have in common?
Writing about Universal Credit is a bit like writing about a celebrity marriage. You know it’s in trouble , you just don’t know how much or exactly why.
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IDS: Backing Juncker flicking ‘two fingers’ at voters
If EU leaders back Jean-Claude Juncker for the post of European Commission president it would be “flicking two fingers” at voters across the continent, Iain Duncan Smith says.
