Universal Credit Sufferer – Black Isle Journalism
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A study by The University of Lancaster on the effects of austerity in the social security system has labelled the…
Yesterday at Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn used his questions to highlight the poverty crisis created by the…
Kwasi Kwarteng has only just been promoted to a junior ministerial role and he’s already drawing attention to himself. Appearing…
There was much celebration amongst benefit claimants on Thursday when Esther McVey resigned and Work and Pensions Secretary. Her claim that…
Professor Philip Alston, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights will deliver the preliminary findings…
Guest Contribution By Lizzie Fletcher & Lucy Wood of Unity News As I’m unwell my fellow independent journalists have stepped…
Esther McVey has attacked me on Twitter after I uncovered that her identity has been used fraudulently. I was carrying…
So the 2018 budget was announced today, and after the threat of Tory backbenchers voting down the budget unless changes…
Labour will use their opposition day debate today, to attempt and force Esther McVey and the Department for Work and…
A report by the think tank Resolution Foundation has outlined the effects the benefit freeze has had on claimants and…
Margaret Greenwood MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, has written to the Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey, to demand…
I live-streamed Jeremy Corbyn’s full speech at The World Transformed (TWT) festival in Liverpool on Twitter yesterday. I have included…
The Labour Party Conference starts this weekend and there’s much speculation if a motion calling for Universal Credit to be…
Universal Credit is never far from the top of news results these days. Whether it’s another damning report on how…