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Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit Plot for the Lords Crashes and Burns
The fatal flaw in the Prime Minister’s plans to create 100 new ‘no deal’ Brexit-supporting peers.
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Parliament’s Financial Watchdog Launches Investigation into Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit
“Lessons can still be learned from the previous period of ‘no deal’ planning, where in some cases rushed decisions meant taxpayers’ money was not spent well,” says National Audit Office.
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Brits Seeking to Live and Work in Europe after No Deal’Brexit will be Left in ‘Purgatory’ as Member States Plan to Tighten Up Laws
David Hencke’s analysis of the restrictive measures being drawn up by European countries and EU member states on the post-Brexit fate of British nationals seeking to make their lives there.
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Trick or Treat? Is Halloween the Ominous Date for the Next General Election?
David Hencke speculates on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s limited options as he tries to keep hold of power in the face of a disorderly Brexit and a rebellious Parliament.
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Thousands of British Citizens Living in EU would have to Re-take Driving Tests in ‘No Deal’ Brexit Chaos, says Government
New guidance published by the Department for Transport reveals the upheaval a ‘no deal’ Brexit will cause for those looking to drive in EU countries.
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HMRC Staff Diverted to Brexit Work has Boosted Tax Credit Error and Fraud, Report Finds
£1.46 billion has been paid out in tax credits erroneously as civil servants are tasked with dealing with Brexit matters, according to the National Audit Office.
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Boom in Car Tax Evasion as Tax Discs Disappear
Half a million cars avoiding tax is leading to over a hundred million pounds of lost revenue reports David Hencke. The abolition of the need for every car and van in the UK to display a car tax disc has led to the tripling of the number of untaxed cars and soaring prosecutions and fines…
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A Fresh ‘Failing Grayling’ Ferry Fiasco?
A report by the Public Accounts Committee reveals that time is running out for the Transport Secretary to re-order contracts to bring in supplies if the Hallowe’en Brexit deadline is met.
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Civil Servants Enjoy Bumper Bonuses while Government Watchdog Slams ‘Errors’ which Punish the Poorest
Both overpayments and underpayments by the Department of Work and Pensions have soared to unprecedented levels according to the National Audit Office
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A Department in Disarray: The Secret Memos Revealing the Truth Behind the ‘Back to 60’ Pensions Scandal
Documents from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tell a tale of a ministry not fit to handle informing millions of women born in the 1950s that they would lose their pensions and complacent politicians unwilling to take action.
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The Extraordinary Cost of Chris Grayling – Part 2: 2016-2019
Part Two of David Hencke’s investigation into the human and financial cost of MP Chris Grayling’s long list of now infamous blunders – in his current position as Transport Secretary.
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Project Fear: How the DWP is Trying to Mislead the Public over ‘Back to 60’ Pension Costs
David Hencke digs into new research published by the Department for Work and Pensions on the cost of compensating millions of women who lost out on pensions when the state pension age was raised from 60 to 66.
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Charity Watchdog to Condemn Oxfam Over Haiti Sexual Exploitation – But Ignore Global Sexual Abuse of Refugees and Aid Workers
A report by the Charity Commission will single out Oxfam’s failures on sexual exploitation, while brushing aside the much bigger scale of the problem.
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Government tells 3.8 Million Women they had No Right to Know their Pensions were being Taken Away
David Hencke reports from the extraordinary second and final day of a judicial review over the government’s decision to remove the pension rights of the #BackTo60 women born in the 1950s.
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‘An Abuse of Power’: Court Hears Government Knew Millions of Women were Being Robbed of their Pensions
A judicial review is told that millions of women born in the 50s were kept in the dark about losing pension rights.
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Billion Pound Judicial Review of Government Pensions Robbery
David Hencke on a key legal case challenging the government’s persistent discrimination against women with changes in the pension age.
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The Extraordinary Cost of Chris Grayling – Part 1: 2010-2015
Part One of David Hencke’s investigation into the human and financial cost of MP Chris Grayling’s long list of now infamous blunders: first his time as Employment Minister and then Justice Secretary.
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Around the World in 16 Facts: PostCards from the Edge
Our Inside Whitehall correspondent David Hencke returns from a global tour with some short but shocking observations on climate change, Brexit and the rise of China.
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New MENTAL HEALTH Review ‘has raised FALSE HOPES in Minds and Hearts of many Black People’
The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service – the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.
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Britain’s NUCLEAR POWER Programme on the BLINK
Britain’s £70 billion nuclear programme is in serious trouble with contractors threatening to pull out of four planned nuclear power stations and a huge recruitment crisis to get enough trained staff.
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Peckham Accident Just One More Incident in MOUNTING EVIDENCE of Rail Track Failures
If you are asked to get off a stranded train by the driver you would think it was safe. But not according to the latest rail accident report… 450 passengers were asked to leave a broken down train on the London Overground at Peckham Rye in South London almost a year ago. But a recent…
