Tag: austerity

The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) Universal Credit welfare reform has been controversial. And now, a group of disabled ...

New figures show that the cost of childcare is soaring far above wage increases. This affects lower-earning families the hardest. ...

Theresa May was faced with a question she couldn't answer truthfully without losing face at today's prime minister's questions (PMQs). ...

On Wednesday 21 March, health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that 1.3 million NHS staff would be getting ...

A new short film set in a dystopian future offers us a glimpse of what the world might be like ...

During a public council meeting, a group of Conservative councillors literally pinned the blame for falling life expectancy on poor ...

Research conducted by Green Party London Assembly Member (AM) Sian Berry has revealed what she calls a "crisis" in youth ...

A headteacher has exposed the impact of cuts to school funding on children with the greatest needs. On 16 March, ...

The number of disabled people living in poverty in Wales has sharply increased since 2010 according to new research - with ...

On 14 March, a new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) examining the "cumulative impact of tax ...

Westmonster, a Brexit-supporting website, published an article that blamed mass immigration for the fact that an 85-year-old man died in hospital ...

Defence secretary Gavin Williamson is apparently concerned that his local council is cutting some of its bus services. So the Conservative MP ...

Listeners to BBC Radio 4's Today programme are demanding a retraction and apology from host John Humphrys. They claim that he ...

Severe weather is still battering the UK and Ireland. Thousands don't have power. Transport is in chaos, and roads are closed. ...

A new project aims to put "the forgotten people of Britain at its heart". But it needs your help to ...

If there is something the Conservative Party should have learned by now, it's that Theresa May is about as cuddly ...

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has won an award for patient safety. And we're not joking. 'Global leadership....' At the 6th ...