Eleanor Langford

Jess Phillips has admitted that women reporting abuse today are unlikely to see immediate improvements under the Government’s violence against women and girls strategy, as she acknowledged the reforms would take years to be fully felt. The safeguarding mi... See more

Cuts to housing benefits and an increase in the state pension age have been blamed for an estimated £900m rise in disability benefit claims over the past decade. New research – published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies – examined four major welfare re... See more

Make sense of the biggest stories and how they actually affect you, with our free Politics Unwrapped newsletter. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every weekday, Sir Keir Starmer has called on European leaders to consider reforms to the Euro... See more

Cutting benefits from migrant families risks plunging children into deep poverty, a cross-party group of politicians has warned. Plans to make migrants who are in the UK legally wait up to 20 years before they can settle permanently threaten to push child... See more

The Government has warned that benefits could be cut for young people as it announced plans to tackle rising youth unemployment with a rollout of 55,000 new jobs in areas with the highest need. The plans combine new opportunities for 16-24-year-olds with ... See more