David Cameron has said he is “puzzled and disappointed” after Iain Duncan Smith dramatically quit the Cabinet and launched an all-out attack on the “indefensible” Budget. In a brutal parting
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Ministers face intense pressure to perform a U-turn over plans for a £1.3 billion a year cut in disability benefits as Tory MPs threaten to revolt over the measure. Work
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The Scottish Government has said the Chancellor’s Budget – which provides support for Scotland’s oil industry, armed forces, cities and regions – contains a “hidden” £1 billion cut to spending
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George Osborne has “declared war on the disabled” by slashing benefits, Jeremy Corbyn said as a Conservative campaigner closed down a party-linked website in protest. The Budget confirmed that £1.3
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The Government has been defeated in the Lords over how long people can be held in detention under its flagship Immigration Bill. Peers voted by 187 votes to 170, a
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Town hall leaders have warned George Osborne against making further cuts to council budgets. With reductions to council grants planned over the next four years, councils say that key services
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Cuts to funding in social care are putting patients’ well-being at risk, a group of doctors’ leaders have said. The representatives of royal medical colleges and societies have said that
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Ministers must call on more areas to house asylum seekers as Britain faces unprecedented demand for accommodation, MPs have said. The system for allocating housing was labelled “unfair” with the
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The Government’s social mobility tsar has warned that childcare funding is a “mess” after a poll found around a fifth of parents have no idea what support is on offer.
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Ministers have insisted they had no say on the timing or content of a “damning” report into mental health care published when parliament was in recess. Shadow mental health minister
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