Angela Lloyd

DWP Universal Credit: 700 Suspected Errors

More than 700 suspected errors in Universal Credit have been flagged in 18 months by a single town hall. Labour-run Tower Hamlets started collecting the figures in April 2018 over concerns the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was not dealing robustly enough with problems. Since then the deprived London borough’s officers have reported 728Continue reading “DWP Universal Credit: 700 Suspected Errors”

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Experts Slap Down Jacob Rees-Mogg

Experts have cast doubt on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s claim he is saving the planet by driving a gas-guzzling 1936 Bentley. The Commons Leader claimed he was enormously environmentally friendly by driving the 83-year-old, 3.5-litre engine artefact instead of getting a new motor. The Tory toff owns two Bentleys, a 1936 model he drives around 1,000 milesContinue reading “Experts Slap Down Jacob Rees-Mogg”

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Anti-Brexit Group Ploughs Massive Remain Message

A large anti-Brexit message has been ploughed into a field in Wiltshire. Campaign group Led By Donkeys ploughed the words ‘Britain Now Wants To Remain’ in 40 metre high letters, visible from flying aircraft. The move was timed to correspond with the build-up to Saturday’s People’s Vote march in London and the deciding majority inContinue reading “Anti-Brexit Group Ploughs Massive Remain Message”

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Brexit: Court Rejects Bid

An attempt to obtain a hearing to make Boris Johnson obey MP’s demands that he delay Brexit if Parliament rejects his deal has been denied. Civil right’s group Liberty’s application for an urgent hearing was rejected by the Court of Appeal, despite fears and Boris Johnson will cause irreversible damage if he declines to followContinue reading “Brexit: Court Rejects Bid”

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Brexit Blow For Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has been dealt a damaging Brexit blow after the DUP rejected his hopes for a deal. The pound fell by 0.5 per cent after the Northern Irish party’s leader Arlene Foster announced a 6.45 am statement stating that she can’t support the Prime Minister’s proposal as it is. That means that even ifContinue reading “Brexit Blow For Boris Johnson”

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Boris Johnson To Face Fresh Legal Challenge

Boris Johnson will face a new legal test even if he manages to bring a deal back from Brussels and lawyer Jolyon Maugham stated reports of what Boris Johnson’s deal would look like would violate domestic tax law. Jolyon Maugham, whose been involved in successful, high profile cases that question the government over proposals toContinue reading “Boris Johnson To Face Fresh Legal Challenge”

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DWP Tories Confronted In Parliament

Tory DWP ministers were confronted in the House of Commons with explicit photos of a man who was refused disability benefit. The man was denied the crucial mobility element of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) despite having bones coming through his flesh as the Independent MP unfurled photos of the unidentified man’s gnarled hands and feetContinue reading “DWP Tories Confronted In Parliament”

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MEP Hits Back At Nigel Farage

An MEP has hit back at Nigel Farage after he branded her a “stuck up snob” in a blazing Brussels exchange. Judith Bunting, the Lib Dem MEP for South England grew up in Peterborough and went to a state grammar school, on the other hand, Nigel Farage went to a prestigious independent boarding school costingContinue reading “MEP Hits Back At Nigel Farage”

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Scotland Smacking Ban

Scotland has become the first country in the United Kingdom to ban smacking and the new law will effectively give children the same protection from assaults as adults and removes the defence of reasonable chastisement or justifiable assault. Previously, this meant that parents could smack their child on the body but not on the headContinue reading “Scotland Smacking Ban”

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No-deal Brexit Could Put Thousands Of People At Risk

A no-deal Brexit could spark a deficit of medications that may lead to mortality and patients with conditions such as cancer, epilepsy and killer infections may be hit as cross-Channel supplies face reductions of up to 60 per cent. And investigations discovered that important medicines could run out if Boris Johnson allows Britain to crashContinue reading “No-deal Brexit Could Put Thousands Of People At Risk”