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Can Plaid Cymru replicate the SNP’s success?

Ed Jacobs
31 March, 2015

As Leanne Wood launches the party’s manifesto, a former leader says Labour still looks like a better alternative for many Welsh voters

The Right’s five most inaccurate predictions

James Bloodworth
19 March, 2015

A few of the Right’s howlers from 2010

Crisis warns of benefit sanction ‘hotspots’

Ruby Stockham
10 March, 2015

Another report into the punitive sanctions system shows geographical variations in the number of jobseekers being cut off

100 people too mentally ill to work get their benefits sanctioned each day

Ruby Stockham
2 March, 2015

A new report exposes the human cost of the punitive benefits sanctions system

Cost of childcare has risen by 33 per cent since 2010

Ruby Stockham
19 February, 2015

Parents are paying £1,533 more for nursery places than at the start of this parliament

Benefits bill ‘virtually unchanged’ under coalition, says IFS

29 January, 2015

The biggest cuts to the welfare system are ‘yet to come’ says think tank

100,000 people have been forced to take second jobs since 2010

19 January, 2015

Cost of living and job insecurity means the number of people working two jobs is soaring.

Public Accounts Committee says DWP is failing to tackle error and fraud in Housing Benefit claims

13 January, 2015

Despite years of calls for better management, in 2013-14 overpayments amounted to £1.4 billion and underpayments to £0.4 billion.

Tories

Why the Tories won’t win a majority at the election

Matthew Whittley
20 December, 2014

The Tories can’t change this country to make it work for the many not the few because they themselves haven’t changed.

Autumn Statement 2014: what you need to know

3 December, 2014

The key measures from today’s Autumn Statement.

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