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Emilia Clarke: 'Hospitals will fix your brain, but the recovery process will save you'
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Big Issue Recruit

Emilia Clarke: 'Hospitals will fix your brain, but the recovery process will save you'

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke shared her story of recovering from brain injuries in parliament, as she celebrated the partnership between her charity SameYou and Big Issue Recruit
DWP warned benefit claimants face 'poor customer service' and 'long waiting times'
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BENEFITS

DWP warned benefit claimants face 'poor customer service' and 'long waiting times'

Olympics 2024: Fury as homelessness 'swept under the rug' and rough sleepers removed from Paris
Paris 2024 Olympics

Olympics 2024: Fury as homelessness 'swept under the rug' and rough sleepers removed from Paris

How Labour's housebuilding target of 1.5 million new homes hinges on just six private companies
Housebuilding

How Labour's housebuilding target of 1.5 million new homes hinges on just six private companies

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
RENTING

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions

Meet Jennie – Lib Dem MP Steve Darling's guide dog who's changing the face of politics
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Politics

Meet Jennie – Lib Dem MP Steve Darling's guide dog who's changing the face of politics

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, and Luke Charters, Labour’s candidate for York Outer, speak to apprentices at Persimmon Homes Germany Beck in York.
Social housing

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs

How many times have we walked by people, men and women, lying on the streets?
Homelessness

How many times have we walked by people, men and women, lying on the streets?

Still no opening date set for UK's first drug consumption room
Drugs

Still no opening date set for UK's first drug consumption room

'Shameful stuff': Labour suspends seven rebel MPs who voted to end two-child benefit cap
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Two-child benefit cap

'Shameful stuff': Labour suspends seven rebel MPs who voted to end two-child benefit cap

DWP should prioritise supporting benefit claimants over sanctions, most people say
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Department for Work and Pensions

DWP should prioritise supporting benefit claimants over sanctions, most people say

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further
Bibby Stockholm
Bibby Stockholm

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further

Liz Kendall wants to reform the DWP from a 'department for welfare' to a 'department for work'
Liz Kendall DWP
Department for Work and Pensions

Liz Kendall wants to reform the DWP from a 'department for welfare' to a 'department for work'

Tory government had no plan to end homelessness in England, watchdog finds
A woman who is experiencing homelessness holding her daughter
Homelessness

Tory government had no plan to end homelessness in England, watchdog finds

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop 'dangerous' disability benefit reforms
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Department for Work and Pensions

PIP changes: Labour government urged to drop 'dangerous' disability benefit reforms

Tories planned to spend £10bn on Rwanda scheme. From HS2 to benefits, here’s how it could be better spent
Rishi Sunak
A modest proposal

Tories planned to spend £10bn on Rwanda scheme. From HS2 to benefits, here’s how it could be better spent

How to get help with rent
A hand holding house keys. Thousands of Brits need help with rent during the housing crisis
Renting

How to get help with rent

Help with rental arrears
A pair of hands holding open an empty wallet. Thousands of Brits are in need of help with rental arrears
Renting

Help with rental arrears

How much can a landlord increase rent?
Six small red wooden houses in a row on a wooden surface. How much can a landlord increase rent?
renting

How much can a landlord increase rent?

What is a guarantor for rent?
The arms of two people sat across a wooden table from each other. What is a guarantor for rent?
renting

What is a guarantor for rent?

How to rent from a private landlord
A man and woman surrounded by cardboard packing boxes. How to rent
renting

How to rent from a private landlord

Homeless people face being locked out of public toilets due to card-only payments
A sign advertising the use of public toilets for £3
Public toilets

Homeless people face being locked out of public toilets due to card-only payments

Rob Delaney: 'Money is great. It should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long'
Politics

Rob Delaney: 'Money is great. It should be handed out Robin Hood-style to poor people all day long'

Labour 'considering' scrapping two-child benefit cap
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Child poverty

Labour 'considering' scrapping two-child benefit cap

Prison crisis: Early release scheme could see hundreds of prisoners released into homelessness
Barbed wire on a wall at a prison
Prisons

Prison crisis: Early release scheme could see hundreds of prisoners released into homelessness