Tag: universal credit

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

While we’ve all been laughing at Dave’s festival photobomb, his legacy is causing a nationwide catastrophe

by Emily Apple

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

Theresa May just gave one of the most repulsive speeches of her career [VIDEO]

by Steve Topple

On Tuesday 11 July, Theresa May gave an astonishing speech at the launch of The Taylor Review of Modern Working ...

Watch Theresa May tell a barefaced lie to the victims of the Grenfell Fire [VIDEO]

The 26 seconds of footage that could drive Theresa May and the Conservatives from office [VIDEO]

by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

19 June 2022

A female guest on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show has given a heart-rending account of government-induced poverty under the Conservatives. ...

While women marched for their rights, the Tories quietly sneaked out a ‘wicked’ plan to punish them

23 January 2017

On 21 January, thousands of women around the world marched to protest Donald Trump's inauguration. At the same time, the UK government quietly announced a decision ...

While everyone’s focused on the Autumn Statement, the Tories’ universal credit scheme has gone seriously wrong

23 November 2016

The Conservative government's controversial universal credit scheme may face an investigation. Great Yarmouth Borough Council has called for the probe ...

Here’s how many children are living in poverty in your community

by Sophia Akram

8 November 2016

Children's non-governmental organisation (NGO) End Child Poverty has put together data that reveals the true picture of child poverty in ...

Theresa May finally gives straight answers at PMQs, but she accidentally reveals too much [VIDEO]

2 November 2016

Theresa May's performance at the last Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) saw her accused of being incomprehensible. But her answers at ...

Theresa May drops an absolute bombshell, then jets off on her summer holidays

The Tories aren’t persecuting the poor out of spite, it’s even worse than that

17 August 2016

An extraordinary report by the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has laid bare the real reason why the Conservative government ...

“Putting lipstick on a pig” thats the end result of billions spent by government on IT projects

by Conrad Bower

13 June 2016

A scathing report on government digital policy says it has failed in its objective of “transforming government”. The numerous iterations ...

IDS’ replacement vows to ‘tackle poverty’, the day after he robs thousands from working people

by James Wright

11 April 2016

The new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb will vow to tackle the "root causes of poverty" in a speech ...

Just as you thought IDS couldn’t get any worse, he goes and does this

by Mike Carr

17 February 2016

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Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has refused to set up a free telephone number for millions of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Iain Duncan Smith shafts claimants in Universal Credit scandal

by The Canary

27 January 2016

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Ian Duncan Smith has shafted benefits claimants after failing to adequately promote sweeping changes to the welfare system caused by ...

This is why experts have torn Osborne’s Autumn Statement apart

by Ed Sykes

27 November 2015

Chancellor George Osborne has come under attack for increasing austerity measures in his autumn statement which look set to hit ...

Osborne’s next round of cuts is so cruel, even Iain Duncan Smith has threatened to resign

by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

19 June 2022

Iain Duncan Smith has delivered round after round of cuts to the welfare state without flinching. But George Osborne's latest ...

5 things they’re not telling you about Universal Credit

by Emily Apple