Tag: universal credit

The Conservatives’ decision to roll out Universal Credit has been met with intense criticism. Recent events only confirm many people’s worries ...

On 18 October, the UK’s youngest MP delivered a speech apparently so blistering that the Conservative benches tried to shut ...

Heroic Britons are making a "staggering" effort to tackle a crisis sweeping across the country. And it puts the Conservative ...

The government has announced it will scrap the hated 55p-a-minute charges to call the helpline for Universal Credit. The backdown ...

The government is facing legal action over one of its most controversial welfare reforms. And it may have to defend ...

Figures released by one council sum up the problems with Universal Credit. This is because 92% of its tenants receiving ...

As Universal Credit continues to make the headlines, there's one element of it which barely anyone has spotted. It's a ...

The Conservative government looks too weak to stop it. Labour could be about to halt the Universal Credit rollout through ...

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Elizabeth Truss made an excruciating attempt to defend the government's 55p a minute helpline for ...

It was all over after Jeremy Corbyn mentioned that scandal. Theresa May could only mumble incoherently. The Labour leader had ...

Jeremy Corbyn used Prime Minister's Questions on 11 October to ask Theresa May the one question that we all want ...

Chancellor Philip Hammond has advised anyone struggling financially under the government's Universal Credit (UC) scheme to take out a "loan" to ...

The 2017 Conservative Party conference officially kicks off on Sunday 1 October. But if Theresa May was hoping for a ...

The Trussell Trust, which runs 400 food banks across the country, has issued a stark warning to Theresa May's government: stop the ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg has sunk to a new low. From his anti-abortion and homophobic attitudes to his filibustering, Rees-Mogg has proved ...

While Theresa May has been enjoying her summer holiday, Conservative MPs are planning Christmas misery for thousands. 31 MPs have ...

It's been a good weekend for laughing at the Tories. It started with the preposterous idea of 'Tory Glastonbury' and ...