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MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?
Disability benefits

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’
Disability benefits

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’

As an autistic teen I depended on the benefits system – we’re all at risk if harmful reforms go ahead
Diane Johnson

As an autistic teen I depended on the benefits system – we’re all at risk if harmful reforms go ahead

Pressure grows on police forces to reverse their refusal to equip officers with life-saving naloxone
Drugs

Pressure grows on police forces to reverse their refusal to equip officers with life-saving naloxone

We need to start treating gambling harm as a public health issue – here’s why
Dr Beccy Cooper

We need to start treating gambling harm as a public health issue – here’s why

‘Do what’s right for UK’s children’: Urgent call to scrap two-child benefit cap projected onto parliament
Child poverty

‘Do what’s right for UK’s children’: Urgent call to scrap two-child benefit cap projected onto parliament

Young people struggling to afford food face ‘stigma’ when seeking help: ‘We don’t feel welcome’
Food poverty

Young people struggling to afford food face ‘stigma’ when seeking help: ‘We don’t feel welcome’

Benefits for unpaid carers and those they care for are intrinsically linked – Labour is failing both
Emily Holzhausen

Benefits for unpaid carers and those they care for are intrinsically linked – Labour is failing both

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’
Poverty

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’

The excuses don’t wash. All police officers must be allowed to carry naloxone
Meg Jones

The excuses don’t wash. All police officers must be allowed to carry naloxone

The simple reason Nigel Farage has seemingly had a change of heart on benefits
Two-child benefit cap

The simple reason Nigel Farage has seemingly had a change of heart on benefits

Gaza’s health workers need more than thoughts and prayers – they need protection
Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan

Gaza’s health workers need more than thoughts and prayers – they need protection

Will fixing the NHS be enough to save Starmer’s government? Maybe. But only on one condition
NHS

Will fixing the NHS be enough to save Starmer’s government? Maybe. But only on one condition

Mental health patients find it ‘impossible to get help’ amid Manchester care crisis: ‘It makes you ill’
Mental health

Mental health patients find it ‘impossible to get help’ amid Manchester care crisis: ‘It makes you ill’

Such Brave Girls creator Kat Sadler: ‘There’s still a lot of poverty porn on TV – I’m not interested’
TV

Such Brave Girls creator Kat Sadler: ‘There’s still a lot of poverty porn on TV – I’m not interested’

The NHS is facing an existential crisis. Can Labour’s 10-year plan really save it?
NHS

The NHS is facing an existential crisis. Can Labour’s 10-year plan really save it?

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Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’
Disability benefits

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’

Police could stop opioid deaths with this drug. So why do some UK forces stop officers carrying it?
Drug deaths

Police could stop opioid deaths with this drug. So why do some UK forces stop officers carrying it?

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’
Disability benefits

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’

Absolutely everything you need to know about Labour’s benefits bill, PIP changes and who’s affected
Welfare reform

Absolutely everything you need to know about Labour’s benefits bill, PIP changes and who’s affected