In a speech on Friday, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced important changes to current proposals for Universal Credit (UC). Amber Rudd announced that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will immediately lay two pieces of legislation: · The first will provide protections for people currently receiving ...
New research has revealed a third (36%) of Brits will opt for staycations over foreign travel in 2019 as a result of the uncertainty caused by Brexit. The findings have discovered that almost half (47%) of Brits believe Brexit will make trips abroad more difficult for UK travellers and ...
Piers Morgan has been hilariously trolled on Twitter after he used a 1400 year-old olive tree in Puglia to give "perspective to Remoaners", only to learn that the EU intervened with €7 million of funding to save the trees in 2015. The outspoken media personality tweeted at the weekend that he ...
Sajid Javid can lay claim to the biggest Brexit faux pas of the year this week after he unveiled his post-Brexit immigration policy. In a year when the government has been found to be in contempt of parliament and the country is taking a course ruled by all experts as being the ...
A Conservative MP has been reminded of a "stupid woman" tweet he sent without reprimand after an outburst of criticism was directed towards Jeremy Corbyn for his muttered words in parliament yesterday. MP for Bournemouth West Conor Burns reacted to a tweet just a few years ago saying "this stupid woman is making ...
Jaguar Land Rover's announcement that it plans to axe up to 5,000 jobs shows a "Brexit bomb is exploding over Britain’s manufacturing industry", The Independent's Chief Business Commentator James Moore has said. The car manufacturer said it will be making thousands of job cuts in the new year as part of a ...
Mhairi Black nailed the absurdity of the behaviour of the UK Government in a way only she could in a speech to the House of Commons yesterday. The SNP MP started off by lamenting parliament for ignoring the will of Scotland, saying they voted to remain and they were ignored ...
YouGov poll for The Poppy Factory indicates scale of challenge for those with mental health conditions, especially at Christmas. More than 4 in 5 (85 per cent) people in the UK think it would be difficult for someone living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to stay in paid work for ...
UN Rapporteur Philip Aston’s damning report into poverty in the UK was no surprise to those who had been keeping up with events. Anyone who hadn’t developed serious social myopia over the years last eight years of grinding austerity couldn’t fail to see the results of a deliberate government policy ...