The government believes it may have paid out up to £3.5bn in wrong or fraudulent claims for the furlough scheme. Jim Harra, the top civil servant at HM Revenue &
The relief was shortlived. Barely a month ago, campaigners were cheering the success of a campaign spearheaded by the Manchester United and England footballer, Marcus Rashford. Their aim was to
My austerity journey, which took me to all four UK nations and numerous towns, cities and villages, to write a book, began in the months following George Osborne’s infamous budget
A single mother has launched a legal challenge to overturn “perverse” benefit rules that have cancelled out the chancellor’s £90-a-month coronavirus living costs boost for thousands of low-income families on
