Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

iDaniel Film Maker Ken loach is supporting Labours Momentum. This is what he has to say:  From Ken Loach:  Why you should support Momentum There isn't much time, and we have a lot to do. For the first time in a generation, there is a r...

According to the Tory Party manifesto about 900,000 children from struggling families will lose their right to free school lunches more than 600,000 young children recently defined as coming from “ordinary working families”. The move risk...

The Brexit Secretary David Davis appeared on LBC the morning after Theresa May revealed her party’s manifesto for the forthcoming general election. Part of the document proposes removing the triple lock which was brought in by the coalitio...

The number of Scots out of work has fallen further, with new figures showing the unemployment rate falling 1.7% over the year to 4.4% - lower than in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. Scotland’s unemployment rate is lower than the rate f...

Misleading job advertising is unfortunately becoming a familiar problem in the world of work. In this case, the ASA found in favour of the recruitment agency. Would you agree with their findings…? We can see why the complaint was brought to th...

Here’s an interesting solution to Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn conundrum says a Politico journalist: MP Frank Field, Chair of the DWP Select Committee a party veteran, reckons MPs could elect their own leader in parliament and form a group call...

National poverty charity Turn2us is drawing attention to the high numbers of people in work who need help to pay their rent and has voiced concern that one in five people entitled to Housing Benefit are not claiming. It points to figures from the Dep...

A woman whose disabled mum took a fatal overdose hours after learning that her benefits appeal had been rejected has accused the Tories of having blood on their hands. Susan Roberts, 68, was found dead at home, metres from a heartbreaking 1...

Theresa May was confronted over disability benefit cuts this afternoon, during a rare appearance in public. Cathy Mohan, who lives in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, berated the Prime Minister over cuts to help people with learning disabilities.&nbs...

The Women’s Equality Party has launched its General Election manifesto which contains plans for universal free childcare, investment in a caring economy that values social as well as physical infrastructure, a just immigration system that value...