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UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT - Further pressure has been piled on to the callous UK Tory government after Baroness Ruth Davidson described plans to cut Universal Credit as the ‘wrong thing to do’. During an appearance on Peston, the former Sco...

ROUGH SLEEPING - Figures show the number of households assessed as rough sleeping across England have soared by 39.4% in the past year, up from 8,310 to 11,580. Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, who this week held a House of Commons debate on rou...

BORIS GETS MAULED - Kier Starmer takes Boris Johnson to task. Boris gets absolutely savaged.  We have since added this from the BBC:     Claims about Universal Credit fact-checked By Reality Check teamBBC News IMAGE SOURCE,UK PARLIAMEN...

INFLATION - Today it was announced that the UK inflation rate rose to a record 3.2% in the year to August, its highest level in nine years.  The Consumer Prices Index rose from 2% in July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), i...

INFLATION - The leap in CPI inflation from 2.0% in July to a nine-year high of 3.2% in August (consensus 2.9%, CE 3.1%) is the first step in a rise that may take inflation to 4.5% or above by November. But as inflation will fall back almost as s...

ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP - On Tuesday 7th September, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Universal Credit met to hear evidence on the anticipated impacts of the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit, which will begin to take effect on 6th October....

MIGRANTS TO BE USED AS FORCED LABOUR - Denmark plans to make some migrants work full time in order to be given benefits, officials have announced. Immigrants who have been on benefits for between three to four years will be expected to complete 37-ho...

CHILDREN IN CARE - Reducing the number of children in care. Fewer children and young people should end up in care, thanks to a £500 million fund to help support families to stay together. Announced as part of the latest Programme for Government,...

The government has announced  that health and social care reform will be funded through a 1.25% increase in National Insurance, as well as an increase in taxes on share dividends.       Image: Neil Carberry, Chief Executive o...

COMMENT - Working People to Pay A ‘Heath And Social Care Levy’ - Because The £350 Million A Week Never Existed, Labour MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark Neil Coyle MP pointed out  on Twitter.  ABC Note: Very well put.  &n...