Michael Dnes

4 weeks ago | politicshome.com | Michael Dnes |Tom Scotson

3 min read Labour’s welfare reforms will see an additional 250,000 people – including 50,000 children – pushed into relative poverty, government analysis has found. Published on Wednesday alongside Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement, the Department for Work and Pensions assessment looks at how benefits cuts being introduced by the government will affect those impacted. It forecasts that by 2029/30, 3.2m families will suffer an average financial loss of £1,720 a year.

4 weeks ago | politicshome.com | Tali Fraser |Michael Dnes

9 min read We can’t start to clear away the blockers until we understand how we erected them in the first place; Michael Dnes details how thousands of sane decisions have led us to the current madness. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall Britain, it seems, just cannot build.