UK’s unpopular Labour government tries to fight back with a tax-raising budget

Britain’s unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget ...

UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - down 80% from its peak in 2023

The Office for National Statistics says the fall is driven by fewer non-EU nationals arriving for work and study, and a ...

Lifting two-child welfare cap will cost UK about 3 billion pounds, OBR says

LONDON (Reuters) -Scrapping a two-child limit on welfare payments, set to be announced in Rachel Reeve's budget on Wednesday, ...
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Families in high-migration areas TWICE as likely to gain from Labour scrapping two-child benefit cap

New analysis indicates that council areas with elevated immigration levels will see 2.2 per cent of households gain from ...

Campaigners and Labour MPs hail Rachel Reeves’ decision to scrap two-child limit

Labour MPs Helen Hayes and Debbie Abrahams, who chair the education and work and pensions committees respectively, said it ...
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Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress

The homelessness emergency in England remained unchanged in 2024-25 as the wait goes on for the Labour government’s long-term ...

PM admits there WERE ‘alternatives’ to tax hikes in Reeves’ Benefits Street Budget but denies ‘lying’ to Brits

SIR Keir Starmer today admitted there were “alternatives” to the painful tax hikes in Rachel Reeves’ “Benefits Street Budget” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Voters back helping families with policies like scrapping two-child cap, poll shows

The Save the Children and Unicef polling showed across a variety of issues, failing to tackle child poverty was the most likely to damage Labour’s re-election prospects ...

Minority ethnic women in the UK face economic abuse at twice the rate of white women

Economic abuse may not be as obvious as physical abuse, but for the millions of people it affects in the UK, economic abuse ...

Labour Government scrapped two child benefit cap after “personal campaign” by Anas Sarwar

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the Budget was good for Scottish Labour and gives Anas Sarwar gains to take ...

UK's Reeves scraps two-child welfare cap to cut poverty

Scrapping a two-child limit on welfare payments, set to be announced in Rachel Reeve's budget on Wednesday, will cost about 3 billion pounds in 2029-30, according to estimates by the country's budget ...