Universal Credit
‘Completely out of touch’: Edwina Currie’s levelling up ‘is working’ comments evoke outcry
The former Conservative MP’s clash with Gary Neville on GMB went viral, with people rejoicing as Neville ‘destroyed’ Currie in a row on Universal Credit that proves how out of touch the Tories are.
Cut the bullsh*t on ‘levelling up’: Welsh families’ budgets just got a £286m cut
Recent Tory decisions show beyond doubt that Westminster and the UK's uncaring union don’t work for Wales, writes Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams MP.
Final day of furlough: ‘Westminster is inflicting a perfect storm of catastrophes’
A cut to Universal Credit, rising fuel and food prices, the end of the cap on energy bills - and now the government has ended the furlough scheme
Boris Johnson cannot disown the mental health impact of the Universal Credit cut
'I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.'
Tory heavyweights’ revolt to block Universal Credit cut rejected
A backbench rebellion over fallout over plans to scrap benefit payment uplift has been rejected, saving Johnson from a potentially humiliating Commons’ showdown
Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’