Welfare Reform Bill Articles

The overwhelming consensus is that the government’s universal credit is a wonderful idea. I beg to differ. There are two issues here: will it work, and is the reform desirable? On both counts the universal credit gets a red card. When newly assembled and the Commons...

On health, Labour has opposed well but is yet to present an alternative. The inverse is true on welfare While neither have yet run their course, the two major political battles that Labour has fought against the coalition so far this year – to defeat the health and...

It may be that they are, in fact, crazy enough to do it. If, as increasingly seems likely, the Conservatives pass the health and social care bill into law, despite opposition from the general public, the overwhelming majority of the medical profession, the Liberal...

In rejecting the government’s plan this week to time limit employment and support allowance for cancer patients to just one year, the House of Lords has struck a blow for common sense and compassion. On an astonishing night in parliament, over 220 Lords backed a...