Alan Ward: Private landlords and their tenants need reforms to Universal Credit

With sensible changes to things like direct payments and access to information, the new system can work better for everybody.

Alan Ward: Private landlords need a better deal from Universal Credit

By making it hard to guarantee rent payments, pursue debts, or get information on tenants, the current system undermines confidence and restricts supply.

What Brown got right

The former Prime Minister may stand down from Parliament next year. Here’s our attempt at a friendly send-off.

Graeme Archer: The cloaca of Angela Eagle’s disrespectability

I’d rather have clumsy but well-meaning Lord Freud in Government than Labour, the party of manufactured outrage.

Natalie Elphicke: Let’s not drive original thinkers, innovators and speakers out of politics

There is a moral in the conflated row exactly a week ago over Lord Freud’s remarks.

The disability charities should not demonise Lord Freud

Are the charities trying to break a taboo – or to enforce it?

WATCH: Is Lord Freud winning the argument?

Labour’s Angela Eagle is booed and heckled on BBC Question Time as she attacks the Government Minister.

WATCH: The furore over Lord Freud’s remarks

The welfare minister has issued an apology. Should he resign, as Miliband demands? Or is he in the right?

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron sneers at Miliband and is polite to Carswell

The Prime Minister treats UKIP’s policies with much greater respect than he treats the Leader of the Opposition.

Half of those in work experience placements have found full time jobs

By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter The House of Lord held a debate on youth unemployment on Thursday. This sort of… Read more »

Lord Freud: “The number of people long-term sick coming back into the workforce is terribly encouraging”

Lord Freud: How Labour have failed on child poverty – and what a Conservative Government would do to tackle the problem

Lord Freud was formerly an adviser to the Labour Government on welfare reform before quitting to join the Conservatives in… Read more »