Every single disabled person receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP) is to have their claim reviewed, the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted in an embarrassing climbdown set to cost the tax payer an estimated £3.7billion. A total of 1.6 million claimants of the main disability benefit will have their ...
Toby Young has resigned from his universities watchdog role apologising for the offence his social media posts and writings have caused over the years, just two days after the Prime Minister defended his controversial appointment to the role. On the weekend Theresa May said that the controversialist who had made ...
I went to my tailor the other day, bracing myself against the Christmas madness in Piccadilly. I needed some new suits, and it so happened that there was a bit of money rattling around in my account, so it seemed the ideal opportunity for a bit of retail therapy to ...
A blog post about Tory Britain is going viral after it brutally exposed the hardships many have to endure on a day-to-day basis. The post, which signs off with "if you aren’t angry as hell, then there’s something very wrong with you", documents a chance meeting with a woman in Cambridge ...
Parliament today heard the full horror of the Tories’ flagship policy that has left many families looking at the prospect of going hungry for weeks as Christmas approaches. The roll out of Ian Duncan Smith’s brainchild - the Universal Credit welfare overhaul has been criticised by MP’s from all quarters, ...
After the Tories decided not to bother to turn up to vote to "pause and fix" the mess of Universal Credit you would think the Sec of State, responsible for the policy implementation, would turn up for a debate on it...well you would be wrong. Today's debate was granted by ...
The Conservative Party is staring into oblivion after not being able to muster a majority to vote to protect their flagship policy - Iain Duncan Smith’s vilified Universal Credit. The Labour Party voted to pause the botched benefits reforms with 299 votes to 0 to win another popular victory after ...
This is a full list of the MP’s who voted against an amendment to end the public sector pay cap imposed since 2010 and halt further emergency services cuts. Last night Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s ...
British MPs are sitting on a property empire worth over £100 million while £500,000-worth of pay outs have been recorded from the BBC and Rupert Murdoch and nearly a quarter were revealed to employ their partner as secretaries. In an exclusive investigation by freelance journalist Chris White, 650 Members of ...