Category: Poverty

Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank

Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political uneaseIt would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living standards double at the...

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Met police launch investigation into alleged Mandelson-Epstein email leaks – as it happened

Files released by US apparently show Mandelson sending Epstein market-sensitive information while serving as business secretaryThe Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with “lived experience of...

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Police launch investigation into Peter Mandelson over alleged leaks to Jeffrey Epstein – UK politics live

Files released by US apparently show Mandelson sending Epstein market-sensitive information while serving as business secretaryThe Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with “lived experience of...

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Gordon Brown writes to Met commissioner with information on Mandelson-Epstein leaks scandal – UK politics live

The former prime minister said Peter Mandelson’s alleged disclosure of confidential information was an ‘inexcusable and unpatriotic act’The Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with...

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Labour’s new welfare changes are practical and compassionate – so why not loudly say so? | Polly Toynbee

Universal credit to rise faster than inflation, benefit hurdles eased, extra help for children and young people … I bet you had no ideaIt’s the good this government does that can make you hold your head in your...

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‘History will tell’: as US pressure grows, Cuba edges closer to collapse amid mass exodus

Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?Hatri Echazabal...

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Former minister says government should quit X over child sexual abuse imagery – UK politics live

Louise Haigh says use of Elon Musk’s social media platform ‘unconscionable’ amid proliferation of abuse imageryThe right to protest is under attack in England and Wales with laws trampling over human rights...

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Starmer says Reform UK and Tories are in ‘cruel alliance’, as bill to get rid of two-child benefit cap unveiled – UK politics live

The legislation will be introduced today and the government says it will lift almost 500,000 children out of povertyLabour has put out these figures, from the Department for Work and Pensions, showing how many children, and how...

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