Austerity News

See who’s saying what on Austerity and how different sections of the Press approach the same story.

We’re being evicted after Universal Credit left us £500 a month worse off

Marks & Spencer closes 17 more stores in new blow to high street

Marks & Spencer announces next 17 stores to close down with 1,045 jobs at risk

More than 17,000 sick and disabled people have died while waiting for welfare benefits, figures show

Brexit impact hits UK business by 16 per cent, study finds

Financial services suffers Brexit hit

Pessimism clouds UK banking as demand for services drops

Malnourished children are taking food from school bins to stifle hunger, headteacher says

Four in five teachers pay for school resources amid funding pressures, headteachers say

Tory Amber Rudd suggests heartbreaking Universal Credit stories are about ‘one or two’ people

Huge Universal Credit cut hitting 15,000 families are AXED in screeching Tory U-turn

Benefits freeze likely to end in 2020, says Amber Rudd

Amber Rudd scraps plans to extend two-child benefits cap to another 15,000 families

Amber Rudd scraps controversial extension of two-child benefits cap

Amber Rudd SCRAPS hated Universal Credit rules – and claimants will get cash QUICKER

Hunger in UK ‘significant and growing’ but ministers failing to act, MPs warn

Government urged to appoint a Minister for Hunger amid soaring foodbank use

Austerity hurts families and courts, Britain’s leading judge declares

UK’s most senior judge condemns government’s austerity policies in extraordinary political attack

Shops suffer worst December in a decade as Brexit fears take toll

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