Latest editorial
A Tory minister unmasked the real motivation behind the cruel bedroom tax yesterday by admitting the policy was never about saving taxpayers' cash.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed stripping Britain's poorest tenants of housing benefit has saved the Treasury £1 million a day since last April.
But Tory Employment Minister Esther McVey admitted yesterday that the policy "was never all about saving money" - a claim at odds with the line her government used.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
