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Benefits cheat: Esther McVey faces calls to resign over misleading MPs

In an unprecedented intervention, the National Audit Office (NAO) has accused a government minister of making false statements to MPs to downplay failings of a flagship Tory policy. There were calls for Esther McVey to resign after the Auditor General wrote in an open letter to complain that the Work and Pensions Minister had misrepresented their report on the suffering and cost of the government’s Universal Credit scheme. In April, McVey's Conservative colleague Amber Rudd was forced to resign after...

Children as young as 3 ordered into US court for their own deportation proceedings

The Trump administration is forcing children as young as 3 years old to represent themselves in immigration courts, it has been revealed. According to the Texas Tribune immigrant children are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings. The revelation comes as the White House faces a major backlash over separating families at the border. It is believed that some 2,000-plus separated children are being asked to deal with court proceedings as they grapple with the ongoing trauma of being taken...

World’s first vegan electricity launched after animal by-product processes exposed

The world’s first Vegan electricity has been launched after "energy’s dirty secret" was exposed. Despite a growing number of people turning to plant-based diets, millions of ethical consumers could be unknowingly powering their lives with electricity and gas made using the by-products of the meat and dairy industries, including animal body parts. Euphemistically described by one of the Big Six energy companies as “recycling” – the practice of using animal by-products and even dead animals to make electricity and gas in...

Man held slave for 26 years faces jail for crime traffickers forced him into

A slavery victim was told that his benefits would be slashed and threatened with jail if he didn't pay a historical fine for committing a crime he was forced into by one of the UK's biggest human trafficking rings. The 51-year-old man, who was regularly beaten, starved and at one point forced to dig his own grave, was convicted of stripping a nightclub of scrap metal after being forced into it by the notorious Rooney family. It is thought the...

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