Jon Ashworth is right: the government must adopt an ‘into work guarantee’
Jon Ashworth, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has thrown the gauntlet down on welfare reform.…
Benefits
Labour urges MPs to back welfare reform plan as over-50s economic inactivity rises
Jonathan Ashworth has urged MPs to back Labour’s plan to reform job support after analysis revealed that economic…
Labour will “fundamentally reform” UC to “simplify” the system, Ashworth says
Jonathan Ashworth has announced that Labour plans to “fundamentally reform” Universal Credit in order to “simplify” the system…
The threat of Tory rebellion may force more U-turns from Truss on mini-Budget
“We have to be fiscally responsible,” Liz Truss told BBC Radio Four’s Today programme when asked whether her government…
Reeves: Government “instincts” in mini-Budget were to cut taxes for wealthiest
Rachel Reeves has declared that the mini-Budget shows that the government’s “instincts” were to cut taxes for the…
Labour calls on government to scrap benefits cap to stop “evictions crisis”
Labour’s Seema Malhotra has called on the government to scrap the benefits cap to avoid an “evictions crisis”…
How the struggles of MPs’ caseworkers have intensified during the pandemic
MPs have a team of people who support them in their work – usually no more than four…
The cruelty of universal credit represents how the Tories betrayed the north
The Tory government has failed the north of England on transport links, policing, health, industrial innovation and the…
The prize in British politics is now to answer the deafening call to fix our broken housing market
This is one of a series of articles in the run-up to tomorrow’s Budget. During the 1980s and…
Universal credit chaos shows the Tories see poverty as simply a lifestyle choice
Universal credit has become a parliamentary inconvenience for Theresa May and the Tories. May has struggled to justify…
