PA: British Isles & Ireland
Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:57
Brexit: PM urges MPs to put national interest first
Mrs May has faced the Commons for the first time since the EU rejected her Brexit plan. We can pray for a plan to be agreed that respects the United Kingdom’s 2016 vote. There is mounting…
Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:55
Over half of detained immigrants ‘at risk’
There are ten immigration removal centres in the UK, housing roughly 2-3,000 people at any one time. A survey of seven of the centres by law firms and charities showed almost 56% of the detainees were…
Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:52
Universal credit - another poll tax?
Sir John Major has called the government to rethink the nationwide roll-out of Universal Credit, warning of an unfair cost to families. Benefit changes coming into force next year have been compared to the poll tax…
Friday, 05 October 2018 02:03
Archbishop and Universal Credit
The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, wrote in the Yorkshire Post, ‘It is five years since Universal Credit was launched to simplify the UK welfare system. Had everything gone to plan, it would have been up…
Friday, 05 October 2018 02:01
Conservative party conference
Government exists to serve the people, but as Conservatives gathered in Birmingham for their last party conference before leaving the EU, relationships between government members were fraught. Many media interviews at the conference were about Brexit…
Friday, 05 October 2018 01:58
Criminalised for being homeless
Liberty, a leading human rights group, is urging Nottingham City Council to scrap ‘cruel’ proposals which could criminalise the area’s most vulnerable people. Liberty said the council’s proposed Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) ‘punishes charitable acts…