Why hasn’t Keir Starmer told us where Labour stands on social care?
After announcing many policies to little or no benefit in his first year in office, the Labour leader is now…
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After announcing many policies to little or no benefit in his first year in office, the Labour leader is now…
ByAs welfare is cut again, Tory MPs are haunted by the consequences of George Osborne’s 2015 Budget.
ByHigh benefit withdrawal rates mean that claimants cannot simply compensate for cuts by finding two more hours of work a…
ByMinisters’ claim that cutting benefits incentivises work ignores how many claimants are in work already.
ByMinisters want to fix social care, but it comes with a sign reading: “Do not touch”.
ByBoris Johnson and Rishi Sunak disingenuously suggest that claiming benefits and working are mutually exclusive.
ByThe £1,000-a-year cut would increase child poverty, damage economic growth and intensify regional inequality.
ByThe Conservatives’ proposed national insurance rise is effectively a tax on their opponent’s base to fund benefits for their own.
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