Britain’s welfare bill has ballooned, with 23 per cent of the working-age population now in receipt of some form of benefits, figures analysed by The Independent reveal. Labour has branded the ...

THERE are moments in ­politics when the obvious becomes impossible to ignore. Monday’s call from the Tony Blair Institute for ...

Last week the Centre for Social Justice revealed that the Government's decision to abandon reform of Britain's broken welfare system will cost taxpayers over £25billion a year. That is almost EXACTLY ...

YouGov polling revealed that in all but five of 634 constituencies in the UK, voters said that the welfare system is too easy ...

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party cut welfare spending to boost the economy and save costs. The reforms, unveiled on Tuesday afternoon in a Green Paper, aim to save £5 billion, or $6.5 billion, a year ...

The state of Britain’s health is an enigma. A record 2.8 million people are out of work because of long-term sickness, and the health-related benefits bill — already at its highest ever — is forecast ...

The Labour government’s work and pensions minister Liz Kendall has laid out a savage programme of attacks on welfare recipients, aimed at saving more than £5 billion. They are the most brutal cuts to ...

Welfare paid more than work for 600,000 households in Britain as critics have slammed a ballooning £155billion benefits ...