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Read MoreExclusive: Data gathered by Generation Rent shows 37 councils spent £31m in 2024-25 in one-off payments to individual landlordsCouncils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive...
Read MoreJustice Collins Rice says it is for politicians and not courts to change rules of ‘rape clause’ in universal credit claims Two women who conceived their eldest children while they were in violent and controlling...
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