🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Over 20% of families in temporary accommodation have been there for 5 years or more. Families are living in cramped conditions, sharing washing & cooking facilities. Matt Downie outlines what's needed to make temporary accommodation genuinely temporary redbrickblog.co.uk/2025/05/10-yea…

The message from numerous studies on the impact of public investment is clear: public investment boosts growth. The OBR assumes a permanent increase in public investment worth 1 per cent of national income will eventually boost output by 2.4 per cent.

NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP has just told me the Gvt should take “corrective action” on disability PIP cuts: “It's our moral duty to look after the most vulnerable within our community, So I hope that the government will be taking on board the feedback many of us as MPs are giving”

Nice of Mick, but I *really* wouldn't want to go & live on my own with some bloke I'd never met. For an indefinite period of time. Could go very wrong for Rochelle. #TheArchers

We're hiring an Associate Director to lead our programme of research on UK tax policy and join our management team. Applications close 13 June. Find out more and apply: app.beapplied.com/apply/xnqss4lf…

‘Anger explodes on welfare…vote now would give government a bloody nose’ Disability cuts potentially more damaging than Winter Fuel Allowance. Far bigger income cuts. Group much higher risk of hardship. Rest of working age system offers little protection. itv.com/news/2025-05-0…

Interesting range of Labour MPs starting to speak out against plans to make record cuts to disability support. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

EXCL: More than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction Jessica Elgot reveals theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

EXC: Now up to a quarter of Labour MPs organise to tell ministers concerns on welfare cuts. 80+ MPs have signed another letter due to be sent to chief whip on Monday calling for pause to consider impact on most vulnerable. Dozens more signalling worries. Full story online soon.

And now more than 80 MPs have written to the prime minister to call for a delay to record cuts to disability support. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

New blog on what the data tells us about the people most at risk of losing PIP if planned cuts go ahead. tinyurl.com/27vpr7m2

Record disability benefit cuts affect huge range of ppl - across ages, conditions & support needs Must-read dive into DWP's new data 👇 Also implications for promised employment support - need much more clarity on how it'll be tailored to ppl at risk e.g. over half are over-50

This week we took a an unpaid carer to Parliament to share her story of how the Government's proposed welfare reform changes will impact her and her family. Thank you Anna Dixon MP for Shipley for raising this case in this week's debate.