Exclusive: New figures reveal Rishi Sunak’s flagship youth jobs scheme is having little impact
New data reveals that Kickstart, extended for four months by the Chancellor this week, is not driving a fall in…
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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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The week Britain ran out
From closed petrol forecourts to empty supermarket shelves, a shortage society is forming and the cost of living is rising.
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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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