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This excellent article by Dr Angus Armstrong explains the issues of wanting to leave the EU but remain in the single market at the same time.  A basic principle in economics is that there is no free lunch. To get something we want, we have to gi...

Eurozone inflation nears ECB’s target: The headline figure reached 1.8 percent in January, however core inflation remained muted. Stripping out volatile elements such as energy and food, eurozone inflation stood steady at 0.9 percent.” Na...

On a frigid winter night, a man wearing two coats shuffles into a brightly lit brick restaurant in downtown Madrid. Staff greet him warmly; he's been here many times. The maître d' stamps his ID card, and the hungry man selects a table with a r...

Plans to drastically cut the number of Jobcentres across the UK should be immediately halted until a full equality impact assessment has been completed for every site affected, the Scottish National Party has said. Ronnie Cowan MP, who represents Inv...

Love working with people in a highly rewarding customer-driven environment? If so, Houses of Parliament would like to meet you at our Recruitment Open Day on Thursday 23 February 2017. There are jobs to suit everyone at Parliament and members of staf...

Work and Pensions Committee Monday 30 January 2017 Meeting starts at 3.45pm Witnesses: Damian Hinds MP, Minister for Employment, Department for Work and Pensions, and Sarah Newton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Vulnerability, Saf...

We have launched our crowd funding campaign this morning on Crowd Funder. Goal: To take our student team to the Houses of Parliament as guests of our Colchester MP Will Quince.   We will be commenting more on this as we go. 

Black Triange Have been keeing a list of Claimants who have died, This is a recewnt update. Lawrence Bond, 56, suffered a fatal heart attack shortly after leaving Kentish Town Jobcentre on Thursday. His sister, Iris Green, said that he was in obvious...

One in ten centres in England, Wales and Scotland will shut, union officials have said; the Department for Work and Pensions claimed the number of redundancies would be small Jobcentres are due to close under reforms to deal with “under-used&rd...

Kidderminster’s Jobcentre Plus office is to be axed as part of the Department of Work and Pensions shake-up of the service. The current office in Lower Mill Street will go and the service will be “co-located” into the council's libr...