Author: The Guardian

‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentimentAndy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmood’s migration reforms or risk overstretching social care and fuelling...

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UK chancellor urged to remove £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ prompting parents to cut work hours

Critics say threshold pushes higher-paid staff to cut back on work and often mothers to stop working to avoid losing entitlementJohn Healey has been urged to fix the £100,000 childcare “cliff edge”, that means some higher-paid...

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‘Mr Congeniality’ Burnham advises Badenoch to ditch the point-scoring over defence spending | John Crace

Leader of the opposition rehashes last week’s questions as she comes up short against a PM who preaches consensus politicsThe case of the dog that didn’t bark in the night. Sometimes prime minister’s questions are as notable for...

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