Did Covid-19 push public opinion in a more left-wing direction?
The landmark British Social Attitudes survey reveals a public more aware of inequality and sympathetic to welfare. But pollster John…
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How London renters are squeezed
Londoners spend nearly 40 per cent of their income on private rent.
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The Universal Credit reduction is the biggest overnight benefit cut in history
The £1,040-a-year benefit cut is the biggest since the creation of the British welfare state.
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Will the £20 Universal Credit cut become Boris Johnson’s government’s worst decision?
From food banks to Whitehall, the New Statesman reports from the front line of a life-changing policy.
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Why hasn’t Keir Starmer told us where Labour stands on social care?
After announcing many policies to little or no benefit in his first year in office, the Labour leader is now…
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Conservative MPs have a familiar worry about the Universal Credit cut
As welfare is cut again, Tory MPs are haunted by the consequences of George Osborne’s 2015 Budget.
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Why Thérèse Coffey is wrong about Universal Credit claimants and work
High benefit withdrawal rates mean that claimants cannot simply compensate for cuts by finding two more hours of work a…
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Why the government’s argument for cutting Universal Credit isn’t credible
Ministers’ claim that cutting benefits incentivises work ignores how many claimants are in work already.
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