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Spring Statement

Spring statement

'Time for radical thinking': What's the bigger picture behind Reeves' dramatic benefit cuts?

Millions will be made worse off by the government's benefits cuts. But the ramifications of Rachel Reeves' spring statement could be even wider

chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the Spring Statement

Laurie Lee

How building a healthier society will get Rachel Reeves out of a bind

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner meet construction workers at the Bournes Bank site in Stoke-on-Trent.

Housing

Doubt cast on Rachel Reeves’ claim Labour will be in ‘touching distance’ of building 1.5 million homes

Disability benefits

250,000 people will be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts, DWP analysis reveals

Spring Statement

Rachel Reeves doubles down on welfare cuts in Spring Statement: 'This is change for the worse'

Spring Statement

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you

Deputy prime minister and housing secretary Angela Rayner and chancellor Rachel Reeves

Spring Statement

Labour pledge £2bn for social housing ahead of Spring Statement: ‘We are fixing the housing crisis’

Spring Statement

Cuts, taxes and Labour dissent: What to expect from the chancellor's Spring Statement

Department for Work and Pensions

Household support fund's end would be 'devastating', charities say: 'We're planning for the worst'

Businesswoman and businessman HR manager interviewing woman. Candidate female sitting her back to camera, focus on her, close up rear view, interviewers on background

Spring Budget

Disabled people fear 'cruel sanctions' as Spring Budget aims to drive people back to work

John Bird

Vast amounts are spent on poverty but the money doesn’t go into the pockets of people in need

cost of living crisis

Sunak ‘made political choice to plunge 1.3 million people into poverty’, chancellor told

Around 30 per cent of single parents were furloughed during the pandemic.

Spring Budget

Spring Budget: Sunak's statement ‘won’t touch the sides’ for single parents

spring budget

'A cup of water on a blazing fire': Housing charities pan Sunak's Spring Statement

Politics

Spring Statement

'Time for radical thinking': What's the bigger picture behind Reeves' dramatic benefit cuts?

How building a healthier society will get Rachel Reeves out of a bind

Doubt cast on Rachel Reeves’ claim Labour will be in ‘touching distance’ of building 1.5 million homes

250,000 people will be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts, DWP analysis reveals

Rachel Reeves doubles down on welfare cuts in Spring Statement: 'This is change for the worse'

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you

Labour pledge £2bn for social housing ahead of Spring Statement: ‘We are fixing the housing crisis’

Cuts, taxes and Labour dissent: What to expect from the chancellor's Spring Statement

Household support fund's end would be 'devastating', charities say: 'We're planning for the worst'

Disabled people fear 'cruel sanctions' as Spring Budget aims to drive people back to work

Vast amounts are spent on poverty but the money doesn’t go into the pockets of people in need

Sunak ‘made political choice to plunge 1.3 million people into poverty’, chancellor told

Spring Budget: Sunak's statement ‘won’t touch the sides’ for single parents

'A cup of water on a blazing fire': Housing charities pan Sunak's Spring Statement

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