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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
Fairness for the people who need support and fairness for the taxpayer’ – that was what Work & Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said she was aiming for as she set out the details of the government’s plan to reformĀ disability benefits. But the proposal to tighten the eligibility for Personal Independence Payments, or PIPs, is worrying not only disability charities but many Labour backbenchers, despite assurances of protection for the claimants with the most severe conditions.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
MPs have just voted to decriminalise abortions in England and Wales. Two Labour backbenchers had put forward rival amendments to stop the prosecution of women who try to end their pregnancies after 24 weeks. This report includes discussions and images that you may find upsetting.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
The home secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a new statutory national inquiry into grooming gangs and how victims have been failed by the authorities. It follows a rapid review led by Baroness Casey which found that questions around gangs’ ethnicity and race had been dodged for years – for fear of inflaming local tensions. Baroness Casey described it as a collective failure by the authorities.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
Some departments might be happy – with more money earmarked for defence, the NHS and schools – but other public services are set to lose out when the Government sets out its spending review next week. One minister admitted ‘every part of society is struggling’ – putting Chancellor Rachel Reeves under pressure to balance the budget. And that’s not good news for those facing a spending squeeze.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
A man who was mistakenly deported from the US to El Salvador during a high profile immigration raid – has now been returned. 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody though – charged with human trafficking offences. His lawyer called the case ‘an abuse of power’. Under the Trump administration’s tough new crackdown on immigration – the number of people being detained by the authorities has soared – bringing protestors out onto the streets.
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