Scrap two-child limit and other policies ‘deepening’ poverty, group urges Labour
A campaign group has been launched to urge the Labour leadership to commit to repealing the two-child limit…
Benefits
‘Labour’s pre-election nerves must not prevent vital short-term spending’
It is a summer of discontent. For more than a decade, things in Britain have been going downhill…
‘How Labour could fix Britain’s punitive, ineffective Jobcentre system’
Jobcentres could be, and should be, a place people turn to for support. They should be a ‘labour…
Two-child limit: Three big questions about Labour’s safety-first strategy
If making clear to voters Labour will not reverse the two-child benefit limit was the goal, then even…
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.…
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”…
