Forced on the defensive by the damning NAO assessment of
Universal Credit (UC) Tories turned their fire on – the NAO. With a little of
the ‘the last Labour government’ thrown in. Architect of the ‘reform’ Iain
Duncan Smith led the charge calling the NAO report – which branded UC a major failure of public
policy – as a “shoddy piece of work” that didn’t account for a series of
issues. “Not least of which are that the Treasury signed off annual recurring
savings of £8bn and, more importantly, that the changes last November and
December have made a huge difference to people’s lives,” he said. Read more on
24housing.
The Guardian view on unhealthy Britain: from housing to junk food, there
are solutions | Editorial
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People are living with sickness or disability younger than a decade ago.
That should shock the country and prompt action
The two-year decline in healthy ...
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