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Disabled People Against Cuts protest outside Parliament against government cuts to Personal Independent Payments in March 2017
THE figures involved and the sheer incompetence revealed by the National Audit Office’s report into the underpayment of employment and support allowance (ESA) obscure the real effect of the scandal.
Tens of thousands of disabled people, already forced to rely on meagre government benefits, have been forced into further hardship by the callous and unthinking officials of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
It boggles the mind that the problem has rumbled on for so many years, starting in 2010. The auditors put this politely, writing that the DWP “process for converting people’s benefits to ESA … did not reflect its own legislation.”
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
