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Welfare

June 2026

  • Teenage students with arms raised in classroom

    Careers guidance should be at the centre of Alan Milburn’s final Neet report

  • Posed by models Mother and baby at laptop

    Lack of childcare support for parents in higher education

  • A journalist holds a copy of part of the collection of messages and emails that concern the appointment of Peter Mandelson.

    Labour ‘not looking to raise taxes to fund benefits’ as Mandelson messages suggest

  • Peter Mandelson, pictured in April

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Mandelson described Starmer’s No 10 operation as ‘beleaguered and bereft’ in published files – as it happened

May 2026

  • Welcome to Scotland border sign on the A1 north of Berwick-upon-Tweed

    Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds

  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markAlan Milburn is right, a young generation has been betrayed. Forget Tony Blair: we must attend to this

    Polly Toynbee
  • Alan Milburn speaks in front of a wall covered in colourful graffiti

    ‘A record of failure’: what’s in the first part of Alan Milburn’s Neet report?

  • Larry Elliott

    double quotation markTony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him

    Larry Elliott

  • double quotation markA Britain where people cannot afford to raise children? We see that risk, and won’t let it happen

    Bridget Phillipson

  • double quotation markYou’ve heard the king’s speech – but I think a better one might run like this

    David Blunkett

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reform UK plan to set up migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas condemned by other parties – as it happened

April 2026

  • Nigel Farage during a walkabout in King's Lynn, Norfolk.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Farage reported to parliament’s standards watchdog over undeclared £5m donation – as it happened

  • Construction carpentry apprentice using circular saw on building site

    ‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit

  • British armed forces carrying out a parachute drop exercise at Copehill Down in Wiltshire earlier this year.

    Defence spending should not be a choice of welfare or warfare

  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markA question for those desperate to cut benefits to fund defence: who exactly are you willing to impoverish?

    Polly Toynbee

  • Boosting military spending by slashing welfare is not the answer, senior Labour figures warn Reeves

  • Balancing UK’s welfare and defence spending ‘not zero-sum game’, minister says

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Thousands of unpaid carers to face DWP repayment demands during overhaul

  • Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch

  • double quotation markBritain’s shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers?

    Frances Ryan
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