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Revealed: Devastating impact of 'bedroom tax' sees huge leap in demand for emergency hardship handouts for tenants

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:54 GMT

The extent of the suffering inflicted by the “bedroom tax” can be revealed for the first time today as figures show a 338 per cent leap in the number of people applying for emergency handouts in the month since it was imposed.

Revealed: Devastating impact of 'bedroom tax' which forces huge leap in hardship handouts for tenants

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:54 GMT

Philip Hammond breaks ranks on gay marriage

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:08 GMT

A Cabinet minister has controversially warned that the Government is upsetting “vast numbers of people” with its plans for same-sex marriage.

David Cameron ally brands anti-Europe anti-gay marriage Tory activists as 'mad swivel-eyed loons'

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:52:53 GMT

A close aide to David Cameron has dismissed party activists as “mad swivel-eyed loons” in an outburst set to infuriate grassroots Tories.

David Cameron ally brands rebel Tory activists as 'mad swivel-eyed loons'

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:52:53 GMT

A close aide to David Cameron has dismissed party activists as “mad swivel-eyed loons” in an outburst set to infuriate grassroots Tories.

The next coalition? Why Ed Miliband needs to get Nick Clegg's number

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:54:58 GMT

A senior Labour MP has urged Ed Miliband to start preparing now for a possible coalition with the Liberal Democrats because it will be difficult for the party to win an overall majority in 2015.

Social-housing landlords training staff to spot tenants at risk of suicide

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:37 GMT

Social landlords are spending thousands of pounds training staff to identify tenants at risk of committing suicide as benefit and public sector cuts take their toll on deprived communities, The Independent can disclose.

Revealed: Devastating impact of 'bedroom tax' which forces huge leap in bailouts for tenants

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:12:54 GMT

Andrew Grice: Friends abroad, but David Cameron has blood-scenting rivals at home

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:44 GMT

It has been a topsy-turvy week. David Cameron headed off to the United States for a trip that should have been a spin-doctor’s dream. It turned into a nightmare. He was dogged by events back home as Eurosceptic Conservative MPs caused mayhem in his absence.

Andrew Grice: Friends abroad, but blood-scenting rivals at home

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:44 GMT

Andy McSmith's Diary: A soapbox for the rich and obstinately opinionated

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:58 GMT

If you have money to throw away and a mind bunged up with prejudices you feel you must share, all you need do these days is contact the advertising department of The Times.

Google chief Eric Schmidt to meet David Cameron days after MPs maul search giant over tax affairs

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:40 GMT

The executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, will meet the Prime Minister next week, just days after a Commons select committee mauled the tech giant over its tax affairs.

Video: Ukip leader Nigel Farage evacuated from Edinburgh pub

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:09:26 GMT

The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage had to be given a police escort through an angry crowd as he tried to take his party's anti-EU message to Scotland.

Downing Street stresses gay marriage is 'free vote' issue after minister Philip Hammond says there is 'a real sense of anger' over Government's 'redefinition of an institution'

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:09:11 GMT

David Cameron's plans for same-sex marriage have unnecessarily upset "vast numbers of people", Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

Downing St stresses gay marriage is 'free vote' issue after comments from Government Minister Philip Hammond

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:09:11 GMT

David Cameron's plans for same-sex marriage have unnecessarily upset "vast numbers of people", Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage hits back at 'fascist' hecklers in Edinburgh pub

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:19:59 GMT

Nigel Farage hit back today at demonstrators in Scotland who branded him "racist, Nazi scum" by describing them as "fascist, deeply racist" and "anti-English".

'The anger was linked to a desire to burn the Union Jack and extinguish it from Scotland forever': Ukip leader Nigel Farage hits back at 'fascist' hecklers in Edinburgh pub

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:19:59 GMT

The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage has described protesters who confronted him in an Edinburgh pub as 'fascist scum'.

'Fascist scum': Ukip leader Nigel Farage hits back at hostile crowd in Edinburgh pub

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:19:59 GMT

The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage has described protesters who confronted him in an Edinburgh pub as 'fascist scum'.

Nigel Farage hits back, then hangs up: Ukip leader condemns 'fascist scum' nationalists after Edinburgh pub confrontation in BBC interview

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:19:59 GMT

The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage has described protesters who confronted him in an Edinburgh pub as 'fascist scum'.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage condemns 'fascist scum' nationalists after Edinburgh pub confrontation, before hanging up during BBC interview

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:19:59 GMT

The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage has described protesters who confronted him in an Edinburgh pub as 'fascist scum'.

Ukip captures Labour fortress in South Yorkshire by-election

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:16:02 GMT

Ukip surged on in the latest council by-elections, storming a previously rock-solid Labour stronghold at Rawmarsh in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

No great demand for gay marriage but plans have caused widespread upset, says Government Minister Philip Hammond

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:08:11 GMT

David Cameron's plans for same-sex marriage have unnecessarily upset "vast numbers of people", Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

Angry Scottish mob forces Ukip leader Nigel Farage to flee to shouts of ‘go back to England’

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:29:59 GMT

Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, had to be given a police escort through an angry crowd as he tried to take his party's anti-EU message to Scotland.

HMRC are being 'bamboozled' by Google: MPs confront search giant over 'devious' attempt to avoid paying UK tax

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:15:50 GMT

Google was branded “devious, calculating and unethical” by MPs who accused the internet giant of deliberately subverting its motto, “don't be evil”, in order to pay less tax.

Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Don't call a spade a spade – just dig a deeper hole

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:39:22 GMT

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a great-crested grebe. That's how it seems in the wacky world of tax avoidance – sorry, "tax planning" – as John Dixon, of Ernst & Young, preferred to describe it during today's grilling of his client Google by the Public Accounts Committee.