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The SNP has warned that Theresa May’s sweeping proclamations on fighting for social justice in her recent remarks both before and after becoming Prime Minister should be taken with a large pinch of salt, with her voting record since entering go...

The new minister in charge of Brexit says the UK should be able to formally trigger its departure from the EU "before or by the start of next year". David Davis called for a "brisk but measured" approach, with a likely exit from the EU around Decembe...

The National Audit Office has today published its investigation into misuse of the Flexible Support Fund in Plaistow jobcentre. In November 2015, the Rt Hon. Stephen Timms MP contacted the NAO with concerns about misuse of the Fund in the East London...

The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditur...

HMRC raised £536.8 billion of tax revenues this year, an increase of £19.1 billion (3.7%) on 2014-15 and paid out £40 billion in benefits and credits (approximately one-fifth of the government's total benefit expenditure). The taxes...

Therese May's first speech. What she did: Used her first speech to make personal and party U-turns and draw red lines. Think “Brexit means Brexit,” no election until 2020, no more budget surplus promise, no more pulling out of the Eu...

Employers have responded to the National Living Wage (NLW) by raising prices or reducing profits rather than cutting jobs, but more will have to look at productivity-enhancing measures in the coming years, according to a new report published today (M...

I have just returned from the Via Sacra Walk and had a break from editing the ABC website. I had hoped to do some posting but the laptop I took had a mixed reaction to hotel wireless networks, and as such I decided to have a complete break.  We...

Leaving the European Union would benefit the rich and hit those on the lowest incomes the hardest, Britain’s Chancellor George Osborne said Monday. “When there is a recession, it is the poorer communities who are first hit and who suffer...

The timing of Tuesday’s European Court of Justice ruling on Britain’s right to limit welfare benefits for migrant workers couldn’t be more delicate. A defeat for the U.K. government on such a red-hot topic would be a shot...