Gordon Brown reiterates call for two-child benefit limit to be scrapped
Brown made the call to scrap the two-child benefit cap during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, where he also said that the policy was misunderstood.
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Rishi Sunak accused of ‘trying to rewrite history’ in national security speech
‘No amount of spin or rewriting history can hide the Conservative’s abysmal record in office’
24 MPs sign motion calling to reconsider two-child benefits limit
The motion expresses ‘incredulity’ that the government hasn’t assessed correlations between the two-child limit and child poverty levels
The government’s plans for unlimited surveillance on benefit claimants’ bank accounts should worry us all
Millions of individuals, landlords, charities, clubs, voluntary organisations and companies will become subject to 24/7 surveillance.
NHS crisis: This is what’s caused it and how we can solve it
The healthcare crisis is a political choice, not an economic necessity
Refugee Council urges government to extend move-on period to 56 days, as refugee homelessness soars
‘We know what the solutions to the refugee homelessness crisis are – it’s high time political leaders started implementing them.’
MUST WATCH: Gordon Brown perfectly sums up why the two-child benefit cap is unfair
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 250,000 children out of poverty, and lessen the effects of poverty on a further 850,000, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.
Shocking chart reveals how much of a disaster Tory levelling up has been for the poorest children
It comes as the government’s own data yesterday revealed that the number of children living in poverty across the UK has hit a record high
The Labour Party must not follow Tory economic policies
Labour is counting on the unpopularity of the Conservative Party to catapult it into power but in the absence of specific policies and failure to improve quality of life, electoral goodwill will quickly evaporate.
Why Jeremy Hunt’s budget fails Britain
The evidence of past policy failures is all around us. Since 2010, the real economy has grown by around 1.2% a year and is set to have the weakest growth amongst G7 countries.