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RUDD’S UN RAGE New Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd blasted the UN for UK report on extreme poverty

DWP chief Amber Rudd launches vicious attack on UN report – minutes into her job

‘A lost generation’: How austerity has created vacuum being filled by drug gangs exploiting children

Poverty exists. Shooting the UN messenger won’t erase that fact

Special Agent Heartbleed of the UN has exposed dire poverty — of brain cells

UK austerity has inflicted ‘great misery’ on citizens, UN says

Tory ministers slammed in scathing UN report for “inflicting misery” on the poor

Britain’s inhumane benefits as bad as China, claims UN

UN condemns UK government’s ‘mean-spirited and callous approach’ to poorest, in damning report

Controversial UN poverty envoy claims the British government is ‘mean-spirited and callous’, calls 14MILLION Brits ‘poor’, and equates the benefits system to China’s one-child policy

Key points from UN envoy’s report on poverty in Britain

Girls on Britain’s Benefit’s Street so poor they ‘Sellotape toilet paper to underwear when on their period’

Exclusive: universal credit linked to suicide risk, says study

Hundreds of jobs to go as stores crisis deepens

Don’t blame social media for austerity’s ills, parliament told

‘I live in a tent under a canal bridge and have to fight off drug dealers and robbers every night – this is what it’s really like to be a homeless teenager in Britain’

Jobcentre chiefs withdraw ‘deceitful’ guidance for GPs to help people off benefits

Universal credit will cost more than system it replaces, study shows

Around 3 million people will still be worse off on universal credit, study warns

Universal Credit is ‘fuelling Britain’s housing crisis’ as thousands can’t pay their rent on time

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