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Campaigners react on policy that has been criticised as one of the biggest drivers of child povertyLabour MPs and anti-poverty campaigners have attacked Keir Starmer’s commitment to keep the Conservatives’ controversial two-child benefit limit.Starmer …
Driscoll raises funds needed to pay for campaign after leaving Labour and announcing plans to run against former party. This live blog is closedJamie Driscoll quits Labour after snub in north-east mayor raceIn his interview for broadcasters this mornin…
Leader says party in power will stick with Tory policy seen as driving low-income families into deeper povertyKeir Starmer has confirmed that a Labour government would keep the Conservatives’ controversial two-child benefits cap, despite unease among h…
Thinktank says nearly £19bn cost of scheme would have been better spent on raising value of benefitsBillions of pounds of taxpayer cash spent on one-off cost of living support has proved an expensive and ineffective “sticking plaster” that would have b…
Department of Work and Pensions warned by auditor general about potential bias in algorithms The government has widened its deployment of artificial intelligence to uncover welfare fraud, despite warnings of algorithmic bias against groups of vulnerabl…
Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children Labour has come under fresh pressure to vow to scrap the two-child benefit cap after it emerged one in four children in some of England and Wa…
Pandemic’s £20 benefit uplift led to sharp fall in households living in poverty but replacement is far less effectiveThe scrapping of the government’s £20-a-week pandemic boost to universal credit has set back the fight against poverty and led to an in…
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National Audit Office criticises Department for Work and Pensions over its ‘material fraud and error’Thousands of people in the UK could receive a payout after official figures revealed that benefit claimants were underpaid by £3.3bn last year, the hig…
Left shifts tactics to ‘go with the grain’ of Keir Starmer’s projectLabour will come under pressure to back abolishing the two-child limit on benefits, promise universal free school meals and restore the international development department, as activis…