For what do you do when redundancy hits, or cancer is diagnosed, or there’s a death in the family? How do you cope with the extra expenses that fall on family budgets when, already on low wages or low ...

For the sad but true fact is that child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our ...

The deputy prime minister is serious about her ambition but, like Brown, she will have to wait, says John Rentoul ...

Labour former PM Gordon Brown said Keir Starmer must act to help 'austerity's children' as rising levels of child poverty ...

Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics.

Governments "have to be fair" to pensioners but there is a case for people on the top rate of income tax to be excluded from ...

The Work and Pensions Secretary refused to be drawn on the future of the two-child benefit limit - but said reducing child ...

We’re dealing with a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem, poverty used to be related to unemployment, it’s now low pay.' ...

Gordon Brown has called for the abolition of the two-child benefit cap, warning that “austerity’s children” are paying the price for ...