It’s welcome the Blue Badge scheme is being extended, but we need penalties for those who abuse the system.
A compassionate society supports its most vulnerable members to fulfil their potential, and our report suggests how the Government can do this.
The clamour about last week’s elections and June’s EU referendum is obscuring the deep problems that the Government and the country face.
It would be a tragedy if our reforming zeal and the important changes we are making became lost in a sea of negative internally-generated noise.
If yesterday’s accommodation had been reached last week, Duncan Smith wouldn’t have felt the need to resign in the first place.
Numbers 10 and 11 say that she attacked Duncan Smith without their approval. They can prove it by removing her as Pensions Minister.
The former editor of this site argues that it was the use of disability cuts to fund tax breaks for the better off which pushed Duncan Smith over the line.
This zinger of a departure is about social justice as well as EU membership – and his farewell letter is a missile aimed at Osborne’s character and conduct.
“I am puzzled and disappointed that you have chosen to resign.”
I am unable to watch passively…fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.”
Andrew Percy sounds confident that there will be sufficient Tory rebels to defeat the Government.
Sanctions have failed – help and rewards for going back to work are needed.
The Commons should not reject this Lords amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill.
Piecemeal changes have been tried and were found wanting.
My Private Member’s Bill on disability equality before birth, which is due to be debated in the Lords this Friday, seeks to right a terrible wrong.