As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state ...

The UK’s welfare budget is forecast to rise sharply in the ... Spending on pensioners, which includes the state pension and also pensioner housing benefit, pension credit and winter fuel ...

Nevertheless, the BBC still does not appear to have grasped the scale of the crisis facing Britain. Government debt is 100pc of GDP, an ageing population is pushing up welfare payments and the ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government’s budget watchdog should have taken into account the supply-side effects of ...

For Labour, a party that sees itself as the creator and guardian of the country’s post-World War II welfare state, cutting support for some of the most vulnerable in society is especially ...

Reeves unveiled measures intended to meet her self-imposed budget rules. With growth in 2025 lower than anticipated, there's a hole in the government’s revenue expectations, which Reeves has sought to ...

One startling conclusion of the NIESR is that “The poorest households in Slovenia and Malta are now better off than the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its assessment of his welfare reforms. In his ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s right-wing government—with just nine months in office—is now the only Labour government in history that ...

(Bloomberg) -- The UK Labour government said it ... of a Labour Party that founded the welfare state.” The move to arrest a ballooning welfare budget has already stirred discontent within ...

RACHEL Reeves today promises not to raise taxes in the Spring Statement and to balance the books by cracking down on Britain’s bloated state instead. The Chancellor will also train up to ...