You can buy up lots of properties, let them out to asylum seekers with guaranteed rents and all the maintenance bills picked ...

With three million people unemployed, the government faced greater need for social welfare spending. Chamberlain wanted to increase the amount of money used for social welfare, so was reluctant to ...

Examining massive cuts in welfare spending imposed by Conservative Party ... attesting to the level of poverty at the bottom of British society reads: “If we were to rank all 269 European ...

Reeves announced that welfare spending as a share of GDP “will fall between 2026-27 and the end of the forecast period [2030].” Annual poverty figures published by the Department for Work and ...

The U.K. economy grew by 0.5% month-on-month in February, official data showed on Friday. Analysts had been expecting a ...

Under the strain of tight public finances, the finance minister recently announced billions of pounds of spending cuts.

The British pound jumped against the dollar ... over the underlying resilience of the UK economy." Meanwhile, major welfare spending cuts and a greater tax burden on businesses have created ...