Day: May 27, 2025

Reform UK most trusted on benefits with Nigel Farage expected to say he would scrap two-child limit

Nearly half of all “red wall” voters disapprove of the way Keir Starmer’s government has dealt with benefits-related policy, a poll has found, as ministers faced continued pressure over winter fuel and disability payments, and the two-child benefit cap.

According to the survey across 42 traditionally Labour seats won by the Conservatives in 2019, 48% of all voters had a somewhat or strongly negative view of the government’s handling of the policies, against 25% who approved.

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Charities and experts urge government to honour pledge on energy efficiency as it looks to pay for policy reversal

Plans to reinstate the winter fuel payment will be undermined if the government presses ahead with mooted cuts to home insulation upgrades, dozens of charities and experts have warned ahead of the forthcoming spending review.

Labour pledged before entering government to prioritise plugging the leaks in the country’s draughty homes as a way of reducing household bills and wasted energy.

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Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged

France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has spent tens of thousands of euros in an effort to counter research revealing that Paris has consistently underestimated the devastating impact of its nuclear tests in French Polynesia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Days before a parliamentary inquiry presents its report on the tests, documents obtained by the investigative outlet Disclose, and seen by Le Monde and the Guardian, suggest the CEA ran a concerted campaign to discredit the revelations.

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Exclusive: court documents lay bare crisis at Sanjeev Gupta’s steelworks as it struggles to find buyers in face of looming liquidation

Liberty Steel’s operations in South Yorkshire lost £340m in four years, according to figures that shine a light on the difficulties facing a business on the brink of liquidation that employs 1,450 people.

The company, owned by the metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta, is desperately searching for investors or lenders before a 16 July deadline, after London’s high court granted it extra time last week.

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