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Order, Order, Order - John Simon Bercow  (born 19 January 1963) is a British politician who has been the Speaker of the House of Commons  since June 2009. Prior to his election to Speaker, he was a member of the Conservative Party. Once a h...

David Nuttall MP heckled Mhairi Black MP during her Private Members Bill on the 02 December 2016. A Bill which sort to amend the way sanctions are being administered by Jobcentre Plus. Black is the current 'Baby of the House' as the yo...

Mhairi Black MP: Fight Against Deeply-Flawed Benefits Sanctions Will Go On.  SNP MP Mhairi Black has vowed to continue to fight against the “deeply-flawed and cruel” benefits sanctions regime as debating time for the bill ran out in...

The unemployment rate in the eurozone fell to 9.8 percent in October, the lowest rate since July 2009, the EU’s statistic agency Eurostat revealed Thursday. Throughout the EU, unemployment in October fell 0.1 percent to 8.3 perce...

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) is not doing enough to find out how sanctions affect people on benefits, according to this weeks report from the National Audit Office. A benefit sanction is a penalty imposed on a claimant meaning a loss...

Deaths from suicide in the UK rose slightly from 6,122 deaths in 2014 to 6,188 deaths in 2015 with a subsequent increase in the rate from 10.8 to 10.9 deaths per 100,000 population. UK male suicide rate decreases whilst female rate increases to its h...

Mhairi Black MP’s Private Member’s Bill, which will be debated in the House of Commons on Friday 2nd December, will introduce a code of conduct for Jobcentre staff across the UK that would ensure an individual’s perso...

The Commons Work and Pensions Committee is launching a new inquiry into whether the UK welfare system adequately supports the growing numbers of self-employed and gig economy workers, and how it might be adapted to suit their needs. This will be a wi...

At a press conference following the publishing of the Financial Stability Report and the stress tests, BoE Governor Mark Carney warned about the high lever of household debt in the U.K. The report showed that the overall ratio of household debt-to-in...

Watch Dr John Tomlinson, speak on Universal Basic Income. John has been writing about this topic since his Doctoral thesis in 1989, and is a founder of Basic Income Guarantee Australia (BIGA), an Australian University research website promoting a uni...